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ORIGINAL: Evo2nv

I tell you this car as been nothing but a headache ever since i bought it. 28k miles on it when I bought it from carmax in Conneticute and my list of problems :

1. all 4 rotors wrapped and pads paper thin. ( this is how they sold me the car)
2. Heat sheild on downpipe rooted and falling off car . also how they sold it to me
3. poor shifting and tranny just getting worse
4. check engine light comes on after 20 miles of driving it off dealer lot and still on due to p0401 code
5. after new brakes done , imporper install on rear pads . Had to fix myself
6. rear diff , tranny and tc oil never changed , evo needs its oil in thoses area changed every 6k to 9k.

I'm so ready to drive it off a cliff. I'm going to look at a 2006 evo 9 SE. I don't know if anyone as heard of it or seen it , but looks pretty hot . Mr bbs wheels , mr black out tail lights , se red badge on car , hid's , sun roof. only 12k on it and they want 29,000 for it. I think i'm just going to trade me evo 8 in and pass the problems on to another dealer. I pulled the check in light bulb so they can deal with the crap . i'll my intake out and put the stock on back.

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ORIGINAL: moronicicon

another note to make with that code is the EGR passage has carbon build up, I have repaired a few of them at work lately without changing parts.  Take the EGR valve off, and the two holes/passages in your intake are prob full of black sooty stuff.  Soak it down with air intake cleaner and if you can get a pipecleaner/wire brush for cleaning tubes.  use a small screw drive and scrape what you can see and try to feed the pipe cleaner through.  Usually what happens is the passage isn't get enough flow for the EGR to opperate properly.  I have had 100% success with this repair and customers haven't come back with the same code.  Note these customers have been to other dealers first and even to ours once.   Usually an insufficient flow code is due to a blockage or a hose isn't connected.  Hope that helps ya out a little.