Recent content by treybrad

My driver's door had been broken since I bought the car last winter because I was too cheap to spend $75+ on the whole actuator. I found the plastic piece Brian_K linked to last week and installed it yesterday -- works like a charm! $15 is much better than $75... trey

+1. I bought my second P5 last winter, thinking I knew what I was doing I took it for a quick test drive, looked over the usual trouble spots, and paid cash and drove off with the car. A week later, I take it on a road trip, turns out the clutch chatters pretty bad (warped flywheel, common...

No, I went down this road with someone else and decided it'd probably be best for me to keep the cross bars for when I sell the car... trey

Do you need just the bars themselves, or the whole assembly for the cross bars? Some of the plastic trim pieces are so brittle on mine they snapped when I went to take off my bars the other day.. the bars themselves are in excellent shape though. trey

Well that didn't work out -- thejash has the fillers if you want to completely remove your rack -- veritcal rails included. I just want to remove my cross bars, leaving the rails in case I want to put them on later. So, back in the hunt if anyone has a set. trey

PM sent. trey

'03, 5 Speed - I managed 35.9 mpg on an all highway trip the other weekend. Kept it between 65-70mph and took it easy, used cruise control as much as possible. A/C was on the whole time too. Gas light didn't come on until 465mi. I was pleasantly surprised. trey

The noise the cross bars make with the sun roof open is annoying, and I'm sure it's not doing my gas mileage any favors, so I'm looking for the 4 'caps' that snap into place and cover the gap when you remove the cross bars. Mazda wants about $25/ea for them, hard to justify $100 for 4 small...

Well, to follow up.. Soul Speed has reopened, and appears to be under new management/ownership. Bill Kim was the only guy I had ever seen up front in the shop, but when I had my car aligned a couple weeks ago it was another guy.. didn't catch his name. Nice guy, even charged me less than I was...

and before it gets locked for a lack of signage... And some pictures of it absolutely filthy in the garage right now w/ the wheels: And a picture of the bumper scratch: trey

Well, I've pretty much decided to move on and sell my '02 P5. It is in immaculate condition. I'm the 2nd owner, original owner used it for hwy commute, I use it when it's raining and I can't ride my bike to work. (I'll get up pictures w/ the new wheels asap...) - 89,000 miles. - New tranny...

Ha.. it doesn't. Lots of cars circa 2002 didn't have cabin filters. That's a relatively new phenomenon... trey

Well, I'm running K-Sports, so I may not be the best judge but... With K-Sports, I don't think you could get that combo to work. I had to get spacers front and rear (5/16") just to fit 205/40... and there's maybe 5 pieces of paper worth of clearance between the lower mount and the tire with...

Wow, yeah. I just spent the last hour searching, I didn't realize that the lip fits inside the stock p5 fog holes and hangs a little lower. I thought the 03.5 MSP front bumper was all one, different, piece. Very seamless looking.. I'd like to see one in person. Thanks for beating into my slow...

Hmm. Maybe I'm slow... All I see in the link is a front bumper. When you say "lip" I think something like the DG lip. Everything in that picture looks like it's one piece. Am I missing something? Or is that for the whole bumper cover? I thought the #21 was the little splitter that some people...