What have you done to your P5 today?
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CheeseHelmet
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He's probably going to get something faster:
CheeseHelmet
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Either it's the EGR or you have a cracked intake tube.
CheeseHelmet
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Or that, sorry 
I remember seeing a howto for cleaning the IAC, google around.
I remember seeing a howto for cleaning the IAC, google around.
ProjectBlack
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- 2003 Mazda Protege 5
It's not necessarily what I did today...its what I can hopefully do tomorrow! HELLS YEAH!
bikingpro5
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well get to work than..
recleared my cf spoiler the clear was starting to flake from the bad job the painter did last year.. want something done right do it yourself sometimes...
just needs to be wetsanded and buffed and its going back on the car.
Started it up for the first time in a week.. Ooof. Also discovered that I either have a water leak around my glove box area or my something funky is going on with the AC... the inside of my glovebox smells like moldy ass...
AC drain may be plugged. Happened on... umm... one of my cars. Can't remember which. LOL.
ProjectBlack
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- 2003 Mazda Protege 5
^ ultra super jealous! I love that piece, and I can't find them anywhere!
bikingpro5
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DGM or online. I know at one point I had 2... the last I sold I believe is now on Lewis7789's car..
WTF? kinda engine ist hat?
Started it up for the first time in a week.. Ooof. Also discovered that I either have a water leak around my glove box area or my something funky is going on with the AC... the inside of my glovebox smells like moldy ass...
I had the same problem in my old P5 when I had the AC fixed. There is a steel bar behind the glove box, when the AC was ran for prolonged times it would cause condesation I found water in the glove box and on the mat. Check it out. I just wrapped it with some rags and seemed to remedy the problem untill the ac stopped working again.
CheeseHelmet
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I bench-tested my rear O2 sensor using a propane torch and a voltage meter, it seems to be working. In a simulated lean condition it was putting out 0.85V which should be more than enough to pass the test described by the P0140 DTC (the ECU looks for >0.55V in a 30 second window during drive mode 3). This made me believe the connector was at fault so I cleaned it and pulled the pins closer to the center of the socket.
While I was under my car I noticed a couple things:
While I was under my car I noticed a couple things:
- The stud that holds the shifter linkage to the transaxle was very loose, I tightened that up and put blue threadlocker on everything.
- It appears the gasket around my oil pan is slowly starting to leak, I'm going to keep an eye on it but it doesn't look very promising. I'm thinking it was a bad idea to use a cork gasket and RTV, I should have listened to the service manual and just used RTV (bang)
