Hi,

I was missing a bit, some months, as i had to learn to live with the problem car.
I was very-very disappointed after all the post you have seen me make.

Automatik getriebe problem, Crank position sensor and crankshaft pulley problem were finally the cause of all my problems.

After i fixed these things i can say after 2 months driving a lot this car, that it seems to be problem free now.

I had lost my will for this santamo, and i thought it was a bad construction of a good mitsubishi design.

The problem was that noone in your germany ever knew how to service right these cars.

noone put the special getriebe oil and the special procedure for renewing timing-belt.

Now, i cross my finger, i sold all my other cars, except supra, and i use it a lot all day-night.

no problem.

Fuel consumption for 1997cc and auto, is not bad.

i get normal, easy driving, till 120 km/h no more, with no stressing gas-pedal and i get 10 lt/100km consumption.

it's here 45 Euros takes me 450 km.

I never dare to press motor, as it's a very-very heavy car.

i still admire it's way of passing above bad-surface, and the good noise insulation.

The auto nevers gets more than 3000-3500 rpm, it wrks perfect now.

Finally, i hope it will keep working as a japanese car, as it should be.

The small dieseling noise is there at idle, which i think most of you have this noise.

also, really at 1500-3000rpm, the motor seems sluggish but no problem for me, just a transportation A to B car with no noise, good structure, good drive, good brakes, low (inside) noise.

On the end, i have to write this.

The mitsubishi spacewagon of 1994 had a dashboard made of soft rubber-plastic material.

santamo dashboards are 100% plastic, also all inside plastics looks good from way, but when you touch them , they have hard-touch. Door panels, real panels, everything is from cheap-cheap plastic.

what a pitty.

mitsubishi inside materials are 100%, and i am sure, road noise is lower, when all internal materials are made of soft rubber-plastic material, i think caller ABS also this plastic.

Hyundai accent, of 1995 have this cheap quality of interior also.

bad point for a good chassis construction in my opinion.

i have searched all info about our motors. It's the G4CP-dohc with 102Kw which is a hyundai 90% copy of mitsu 4G63. Some parts are different like oil pump front case and etc.

it's the 1st 16valve dohc motors, which where designed for high output, no low torque.

now day, 16valve motors are designed with very narrow cams and are made for getting full of low end torque.

well, i think it's a very-very good powered motor, old design, with high[rev torque, good air-flow, bad fuel consumption, fast designed cams, and BIG BAD POINT?

The balance-shaft with the small belt, is so,so,so bad thing. I am waiting to remove it at first change, cause it's very bad point to our motor reliability.

also, it's not a quite motor like many toyotas 4AFE, it produces a lot of noise.