Much more reasonably priced car :: 2014 Mitsubishi SE w/Convenience package(adds crui

[Mark]

March 13 2022
295363km/183530miles

-Oil and filter change.
Used a crappy tire "premium" oil filter and 5w20 Castrol Edge since I had some already.
-checked rear brakes. front brake shoes are worn out
-Rust spot on lh rear 1/4 is growing bigger
-Both fog lights are broken...Again


March 23, still running snow tires. Forecast calls for more snow this coming weekend and into next week

I took the Nokian snow tires off the front of my Mirage a couple weeks ago. That very night, we got our largest snow fall of the winter. Overall, we didn't get a lot of snow this winter. I've snow plowed with my ATV maybe 4 times.

Got to test out the newer Kumho Solus TA31 tires up front in some slushy wet snow the other day, & they struggled. The 5 year old Nokian snow tires are still better by a good amount.

If I didn't have an AWD vehicle with good snow tires parked in the garage, I wouldn't have pulled my winter tires off the front of my Mirage so soon. Any snow we get now seems gone in a day or two now. I am planning to pull the tire chains off my Mule today, & that may cause the next snow storm.

[88coltturbo]

How did you find the engine ran with 5w20?

[Basic]

How did you find the engine ran with 5w20?

Can't speak for Fummy but in my experience the 3A92 is much quieter and seems happier with 5w20

[Fummins]

I didn't notice any difference. I haven't really paid much attention either though. This engine only has 12,000km on it so it wasn't really noisy to begin with. I would have put 0w20 in it if I had any left. If I had only 5w30 I would have used that instead. If it's new, brown and not too thick it's going in the hole. Hopefully that doesn't get taken the wrong way...

[Fummins]

I filled up at 1/2 tank on Sunday. Hand calculated 5.1l/100km or 46mpg. I filled up at UFA, they are kind of a weird place. You need to sign up for a card then you can use their cardlock stations 24/7. They don't show a price at the pump which is kinda weird. I signed up because there a UFA that opened a few years ago in my home town that sold gas for 15c/l compared to the other stations. I compared got my pending charge on my visa within minutes and figured it cost 5c more a liter than the stations I passed on the way to this place. Wasn't too mad cause I only over spend by $1.

[Fummins]

296404km
I was gonna swap wheels/tires over just now. I have some cheapo 175/65r14 on the oem steel wheels right now and I have a set of stock Dunlop’s from my previous 2014 Mirage on the oem aluminum wheels. The Dunlop’s still have a little bit of tread left but are cracked all over the place. They’re toast.Attachment 23203If those $25 Dunlop’s I found on kijiji are available next weekend I’ll go grab those and mount em up.
The cheapo winter tires are holding up great. I had them on my other car for over a year then in this car for 1 1/2 winters. They should last another 2-3 winters at this rate.
Attachment 23202

[Fummins]

I swore I heard my rear brakes starting to make noise the other day so on Saturday I was gonna replace a shoe or two. I scrounged 1 decent brake shoe and 1 pretty worn out one from a wreck that was headed to the scrap heap. My drums have some pretty deep grooves in them and there's only 1 single overpriced drum available last time I checked on rock auto. I'll limp these drums along until I can either source a new cheap set or until I scrap another 2017 and do a complete rear brake swap. The 2017 Drums are more redily available and closer to $50 a piece rather than the $250(cad) for the single rockauto 2014 drum.


I missed out on a $25 set of 4 Stock dunlops so I'm still running the 175 winters. Which is fine, we got another 4" of snow in a freak snow storm last week.

[Fummins]

Still running the winter tires.....They're getting pretty noisy at low speeds.

I was just offered a set of 2017 SE aluminum wheels in trade my steel wheels...... Now I just need to see if I can have the dunlops included or for cheap.

The car I'm getting the wheels from has a hitch on it as well that I may try to get. It's never gonna be used on a work car.

I'd probably never tow anything but it'd be nice to be able to pretend that I could haul a few pallets of bricks, a lift of lumber or haul a skid steer around without having to use the truck.

[Basic]

The main thing the hitch is good for is to make a little platform out of angle iron and expanded metal. really expands the cargo carrying capacity.

[Wallythacker]

Feb 13 2021
284,137 kms
Replaced front brakes(altrom coated rotors and raybestos hybrid pads),
Oil change(mobil 1 0w20 , wix 57356)
Added washers to air cleaner mounts
Zip tied snorkle
Checked spark plugs, looked good. Have been replaced once at least.
Cvt fluid looked clean and clear.

I had a new windshield installed around this same time.

Do you recall the cost of the windsheild and was it done by a national Canadian glass place? Also, does your car have the heated seats/foglight package as well as the BT?

Thanks