- Weak fuel pumps. Its common for them to die if you run them below 1/4 tank too much, or if your luck is just bad.

- Dash warp, it should be fixed under recall, otherwise your sol

- Water pump goes easily for pre 99's.

- Driving it hard (like it was meant to) can result in oil starvation and bye-bye engine.

- Every nearly imaginable throttle problem under the sun. The biggie is throttle hang (where RPM's drop very, very slowly or it just sticks, or even rises when clutched in) although its remedied with the TH fix - YMMV on how well it removes th for your svt. Right now my SVT shakes and hesitates in 3rd gear with light throttle. Dealership tore it apart replacing the DPFE, MAF, cleaned the TB, and while mostly gone, its still there and they've given up (as have I). Can't be the IAC cause RPM's fall like a brick.)

Which leads to:

- Needing to keep the induction system really clean or else little problems like this will come up.

- Cold starting problems

- Weird electrical problems, I just changed my battery too and had the starter system checked out, and I'm sure my alt is fine.

- 3rd gear synchro's go pretty easily as well.

- Fuel Mileage completely blows. It's not even close to the EPA estimates.

Lots of posters are gonna slam this post saying I don't know what I'm saying or whatever, but its your prerogative and I'd check the Troubleshooting section with those issues and find out for yourself.

It is a fun car to drive and unique as hell, but all the stupid little niggling problems make me just want to sell it and buy an accord and live with the boredom. Most people who've owned one have pretty much moved on to different cars, or are running 3L swaps cause the engine decided to take a [censored] for good.

If I was given the chance to re-do it with what I know now, I'd seriously think about something else as I don't have a lot of time to deal with fixing the stupid problems every month and not having a running car. If your time is worthless and you don't mind having it sit in your garage while you figure out what's up with it, then you should be fine.

Hope that helps.

Last edited by ODC; 12/29/04 05:43 AM.