Plates starting from R indicates a Subic registered unit, while a B-plate indicates a Cagayan registered unit. Cars with these plates are usually converted.
My uncle used to have a 1st gen 3 door Pajero. Somehow he managed to blow up the original 4D56 engine and so swapped it with a 4M40 engine, while still using a manual transmission. This combo gets him around 8km/L city, lead footed driving.
Ahh ganun ba. Bumili kasi kami ng 2nd hand 3 door pajero 3 years ago. X naman start ng plate. Ayun ang bagal bagal tapos hina ng headlight. Ingay pa. Todo apak na sa gas wala pa din. 100km/h lang siguro top speed tapos ang tagal tagal pa umabot. Hahaha. E ayaw ng mama ko mag benta ng sasakyan dahil pangsusugal lang daw ng papa ko hehehe.
Diliman papers yan, pinasok siguro sa Manila port. Wala siguro sa kundisyon ang ride mo bro. Routine maintenance should rectify this.
Malakas fc nung gas version (4x4 3500cc) nyan. Reason enough for me to sell ours kahit murang gas samin at the time. Kakainis kasi na everyweek lagi pa full tank. It also didn't help na grabe traffic to work and back so it compounded things. .
Maintenance wise, minor electricals naman ang issue ko dahil maraming touch buttons. Mitsu vehicles are at times prone to electrical problems as reported by other drivers. I'm not in Manila so I won't know parts sourcing or availability nyan.
Ride wise, malambot naman at komportable with great torsional rigidity kahit sa high suspension setting nya. Not so truck like feel kagaya ng ibang SUV. I like the push button soft/hard air susp setting which came handy at times.
But overall, a good to excellent SUV. The rally version was to lust for dahil Paris-Dakar proven at wow sa bilis.
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I would only consider it IF I could find an original LHD unit (not converted)