Well this is probably the end of the Mistubishi crap saga for me. After pouring $3000 into it in the last few months for bizarre and expensive fixes, the transmission is now slipping on this p.o.s. I treated you with tender love and care little commuter car. Proper oil changes, regular check overs, prompt replacement of parts that have wear and tear. We've been through 8 years and just over 90,000 miles. But you didn't care about any of that did you?

Automatic Transmission slips while driving. For a couple of days I had trouble getting it out of a park, been through this before (but with a beater of a '97 ford mustang with 150,000 miles and the original transmission. I expected that one!) So I'm thinking great. I really hope this isn't what I think it is.

Went out of town for some appointments, and lo and behold, the thing starts slipping gears while driving. Electronic dashboard still says I'm in drive, but no way. Not with what I am hearing, what my rpm's are saying, and the resistance I'm getting on the gas peddle. Shifting down into low then up into drive temporarily returns everything to normal, but only for about 3 minutes at best. It became impossible to drive. There was no way I was getting that thing back home, so it just is sitting at my inlaws house (I managed to get it there at least, thank God).

Now I am waiting to decide what to do. $3000 that I'm still paying on it for various repairs, and now that its crapped the bed I'm just taking my time saving up money before I take it to a shop. Pretty sure this thing is worth 3 grand in working condition, its paid off, I might just unload it for a loss. Maybe scrap or part it out? I'm sure after a ghastly transmission repair (we all know the $$$ involved in that for any vehicle), it will probably just fail in some other way. Sad part is I can't really afford to buy a car right now, so continuing to have that paid off puppy would have been great.

The 150k mile '97 mustang is still going strong, and seems to have been worth the money myself and the previous owners put into it. Personally I haven't done more than $700 in repairs. But this '08 "solid commuter car" has become a rinky dink mess. Not really feeling it Mitsubishi. I'm not against foreign made cars. I worked long enough in the industrial and factory wholesale industry to know the modern american car companies are importing tons of parts from Asia on the cheap themselves, and american brands don't necessarily mean quality anymore. But this Mistubishi car saga isn't something I would give another try anytime soon. No offense, but I'd like to drive another vehicle beyond 120,000 miles and into the ground.