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Definitely leaning towards driving it until it dies in a fiery spectacle after I've been ejected to a safe distance on a pile of clean abandoned mattresses. I'll definitely look Krown up and see what they have ^ thanks pcb. The brand new car idea was mostly my girlfriend and parent's suggestion...

I hope so. I see all the beautiful jobs you guys do on these threads and think "I want my car to look like that when I grow up". Gee whiz.

The crap shoot part is definitely true. And with a car like the P5, anything that comes up can give me valuable experience learning how to do this kind of stuff.. as opposed to playing with a $15-20,000 vehicle. We'll see how far I can get this thing.

Yeah I definitely don't have that money to spend. Thanks for the opinion. I'm tempted by a '10 Mitsubishi Lancer GT SSL right now.

It's at 160,000 kilometres or 99400 miles and the timing belt hasn't been changed. I understand that it should be changed at about 105,000km >_>. How much I'm in the clear from more small part fixes I am is what I wanted to know so thanks for that. I know these cars can do a lot after seeing...

I've had my P5 for little over a year now and it has been a bad year. After over $2500.00 in small parts repairs I'm considering selling and getting something new. So I'd like some input into whether or not I'm on the right track, from P5 owners with more experience than I have. Am I right in...

Good suggestion; I'll check it out.

I always try to: after determining the problem was not with my decks or the harnesses (I replaced the harness [the one you buy in stores] and the harness the radio deck comes with for good measure) I delved into the deep of my car. Okay not that deep. I followed the main bundle of wires in the...

That's wicked. Thanks for the diagram. I'll get a reading asap.

Original post says I did. Same with another reply. I would hope that I'd have the common sense to at least try the original deck. Edit: I just went out to my car to take another look. There's buzzing in the speakers when my car is on yet no sound with either deck. My initial thought was it must...

This is good to know, thanks to both of you. All I did was switch the decks. I have an extremely bad track record of things breaking on me regardless of how well I do my job (even if it's a professional doing the job) so I prefer to leave things like a vehicle bone stock. The deck was just an...

I recently replaced the Double DIN stock radio with a single DIN radio. I used all the required adapters, soldered the adapter harness to the replacement radio plug and all went well. Until it just crapped out. With no explanation, the speakers are silent. There's full power to the deck (both...

This is all awesome info thanks!

I have a spare single-DIN deck that I want to put into my '03 P5 which currently is outfitted with the OEM double-DIN system. I'm having a helluva time locating a kit that will adapt the single to the double fitting so I'm hoping at least one of you may have experience with this. To douse a...