Recent content by swampfox

My wife's '03 has 41k on it and she hasn't had a single problem with it. Nothing! Not a rattle, not a clunk, nothing gone awry at all. It's a great car, handles superbly, and is reasonably quick, although I will agree with the noisy 5th gear at highway speed complaint. (See my post on that.) As...

Thanks for replies It's turning about 3600 rpm at 75. Since the 6-speed isn't compatible, have you heard of anyone reconditioning an older 5-speed from a 626 and dropping it into a P5? It's not just the gas mileage that's annoying - at 75 the P5 is far noisier than the old 626. Also...

My wife has a 2003 Protege5 with a stick shift. She loves the car and so do I, but there's one thing about it that I'm not crazy about: It seems to me that 5th gear is kind of low which translates to lower gas mileage than a higher overdrive gear would give. My son has our old '95 626 with the...