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    startup lock?

    The same thing happened to me once, then two days later my vehicle would not start at all, I have had it towed to the dealer and trying to diagnose what's gone wrong. I tried to jump it off of another vehicle but that didn't work.... I suspect a faulty starter, or bad (clutch relay switch) The...
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    rear brake calipers

    I made that mistake of trying everything in the book to compress the caliper. I worked on it for at least an hour and figured out you had to turn it.... i forgot to check here to see if anybody had any input...
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    Protege5 won't start

    Thanks, I have not changed my battery since I have owned my vehicle 3 years. This wouldn't even crank (so crank sound would happen). If it happens again, I will change the battery..
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    Protege5 won't start

    I had the wierdest thing happen to me, I have a 2002 p5, manual. I went to start my vehicle and had all my electrical (lights turned on, etc) except that my car would not crank (as if the the clutch wasn't pushed in) I have never seen this before, eventually my vehicle started up and I went...
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    rear brake calipers

    brake piston I just learned how to do it this weekend, just get a pair of vice grips and grab the piston and turn it like a screw to the right. It will slowly retract inside the caliper again.
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    Ms Rx-8

    Mazdaspeed Rx-8 I just got off the phone with the rep for mazda, and he told me that a version of the mazdaspeed rx-8 will be coming out in late september 03. He told me the specs would be a regular mazda rx-8 with a coffee can muffler, and a CAI intake, and some Eibach coil over springs...
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    My Horn doesn't work anymore

    Has anybody had the same problem with their horn getting less louder, until it just doesn't sound anymore?? My horn does not sound anymore..
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    weird stick shift vibration/wobble

    Mazda 6 manual At work, I was testing the new Mazda 6 I4 manual, and it has zero shake from the shifter. That was the first thing I noticed, between my P5 and the 6 was the quietness of the shifter. It almost feels as if your not attached to the car. I personally love that shake in my P5...
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    Everyones occupation

    I think you guys lose focus, i think they are talking about elementary, middle, high school teachers... College professors, I think would have an awesome job, they get paid probably as much as some good professions, and only work maybe 10 hours a week, unless they are doing research..
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    Anybody from the West Coast listen to Ugly Duckling??

    Any from long beach, or cali listen to Ugly Duckling??
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    Everyones occupation

    network administrator the network administrators at my work, all listen to goth music and dress like thier from columbine, and have no formal college education... fu**** wierdos....
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    Everyones occupation

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    Everyones occupation

    engineering equivalents mechanic, shop jockey, grease monkey = Engineering Technologist audio repair man=system design engineer garbage man=sanitational engineer plumber=pipe engineer bulls***=bulls*** engineer, i think i will just add engineer to every occupation cause i feel like it.
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    Everyones occupation

    its sad you know what else is sad, is that every loves to talk about performance and hooking your car up. I see everybody has passion for the product in this website, why doesn't everybody become an engineer?? I think for people on this page, that would be their dream job, designing this...
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    Everyones occupation

    I hate when people put engineer in whatever you did. did you go to 4 years of engineering school, through calculus 1, 2,3, differential equations, thermodynamics 1,2, heat transfer. do you know about the first and second law of thermodynamics?? your like these stupid network administrators...
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