Recent content by Juben

I suppose you're talking about the ground strap that wraps around the bottom of the plug? If so, it's usually a foreign object in the combustion chamber or the piston touching it. I've seen a few cases of extreme detonation cause something similar, but those instances are few and far between...

The worst is paying $2,000 for a car with what's thought to be 130k miles. That's right at KBB value for that mileage and I paid it because the car was clean and pretty nice. However, the car could have 300k miles, and at that point, I'm going to be replacing a lot of stuff. It wouldn't be bad...

The rest of the interior lights are red. I'm fearing that the worst is going to be true.

I have the 4 wheels discs and 5 lug wheels, so I too feel confident that I have an ES. It's just odd that the title shows it being a DX. Perhaps Mazda shows them all that way? The VINs dont appear to have been tampered with in any of the locations either and all match, so it's possibly a fluke...

What's up, guys? I have a couple of random questions for you that I haven't been able to find definitely answers for. 1) Did all ES models come with the white instrument cluster gauge faces? I have an '02 model (10/01 build date) that has the black cluster. I recently purchased my Protege, and...