Recent content by tyr

i bought the car on a whim this past april and now i've decided to sell it... the more i drive it the more i notice the con's of the car vs. the pro's... pro's: looks great, nice handling characteristics for the price, decent utility... con's: noisy (road noise, wind noise), very harsh...

about 10,000 miles... problems so far... 1. squeaky noise coming from front windows when partially down... just needs to be lubricated... 2. rough engine when the car is cold... seems to be the norm with the mazda engine... later, tyr

i dunno... my yellow P5 is about 6-7 months old... have close to 10,000 miles on it already... did a 5000+ mile road trip from NJ to AZ and back... not a single chip or blemish in the paint... is still shiny as when i bought it new off the lot with 11 miles on the odometer... i take it in for a...

i'm partial to amoco/bp... locally that's all i use... however, if i'm on a road trip and there's no amoco/bp, i'll pull in to whatever gas station there is at the time i need fuel... as a side note, my bmw tech recommends shell as his #1 pick and mobil as his #2... also as another side note...

i'm in the middle of upgrading the OEM audio setup... i'm going to be putting in a middle of the road setup in the P5 since i'd rather put the high end setup in my subaru wrx (which btw will be getting fitted with an alpine cda-7998 HU, focal polykevlar 5.25" components front and back, JL 10w6...

are there any other options out there to replace the OEM brackets? i absolutely hate the OEM brackets... and i've looked at various auto parts stores and can not find anything that has the non-standard mounting width that our P5's have... i've also tried fitting standard brackets over the OEM...

can you go into this in a bit more detail... i tried taking the original bracket off and found that the spacing used to mount the original bracket isn't standard... did you have to drill new holes or did the new bracket have the same spacing as the original bracket?? thanks, tyr

i just tried searching but didn't come up with much... what is the difference between a cold air intake and short ram intake... what are the pro's and con's of each and can a car have both of these mods at the same time? thanks, tyr

your location says buffalo, ny... yet there are no roof rails??? did you buy the car in canada? i would love to remove the roof rails COMPLETELY... i think the car looks SO much better without them... i tried taking only the racks off and although there's less wind noise, i couldn't stand the...

the vivid yellow was part of the reason for buying the car... it's one of the best yellow's i've seen on a car.... the silver happens to look nice as well tyr

i didn't know that only one press was needed to lock AND alarm the car... every other factory system i've had in the past was one-press for locking doors and two-press for alarm... also, when i picked up the car, the mazda salesman went thru a "checklist" or "quick instructional" about the...

is there an easy way to get rid of the "honking" when enabling the alarm... it's too damn loud to be used late at night in a residential area... for example, on the subaru wrx, you can press the lock and unlock button on the keyless remote for 2 seconds to disable the honk when enabling the...

My choices... i was looking at the following cars... - subaru wrx sedan... all i can say is "WOW"... what a great car!... i would've went with this except for the fact that the 2 dealers i went to both tried to jerk me around... at one of the dealers i sat in the office for 6 hours negotiating...

hi, i'm new to this forum... bought a vivid yellow p5 loaded with every option in the book about a month ago... the very next day i decided to take it on a cross country road trip out to AZ from NJ... hence the car now has 5600+ miles on it! :D cars i own or have owned include: 99 honda civic...