Recent content by mazdap5girl

I have a yellow one. I've seen at least a couple more here in ATL. Might be Boston5761 that I've seen around town? I get pretty extreme opinions on the color, love it or hate it. Not that I care what others think about the color. I definitely went for the yellow. Best color for the MP5!!

aMaff, Thanks for pointing out the GA forum. Looks like there are some cool people hanging out there. I got the brake/clutch issue resolved (see my previous post). Not sure if I can make it to Athens next Sunday. Never been to a car meet. What do you all do there anyway?(drink beer ;-)

Great!! Well, we'll have to see how they work out. I'll keep you all posted.

BTW - my car (manual 03 P5) has only one master cylinder.

Okay, so here's what happened. We tried pumping the clutch pedal and it stiffened up so that we were able to engage the shifter. My next stop would have been to have it towed to the Mazda dealer, but I figured we had nothing to lose by trying that. I didn't go to a Mazda mechanic to have my...

We called a Mazda specialty shop. They said the early Mazdas may not share the same master cylinder but some later models do.

I just spoke to the mechanic. He called the Mazda 800 line and they told him that there's a safety (deadhead cylinder) that is engaged when he opened one of the rear calipers and all that needs to be done is to pump the clutch numerous (100) times to re-engage the clutch. Did any of you have to...

The mechanic said he didn't open the system when he flushed it so there shouldn't be any air in the system. Is that right?

I had my brakes changed and flushed yesterday. Before we left the place, we were unable to get the car in gear without extreme difficulty. The clutch pedal also went to the floor and barely returned. The person replacing my brakes doesn't think my brakes have any connection to my clutch system...