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Well, that hit me in the feels. But I can appreciate where you're coming from. My P5 is more fun to drive than my Miata, and my regular, ol' commuter bicycle is more fun than either of them. Makes me feel like a kid every time I get on it. I also get sunshine (Vitamin D), exercise, spend no...

I can't imagine much more than the above would be compatible from an SUV, but let us know. :) If you're jumping it and you also have substantial rust, you might end up with a P2 + a P3. ;)

If you're talking about the Readiness Monitor checks, my CAT and EVAP monitors were taking forever to be Ready and I failed emissions testing twice. I had to drive at prescribed speeds to get the CAT monitor to be Ready, which luckily happened on my first try.

When it comes to O2 sensors for my P5, "OBD-II" stands for "Only Buy Denso... two of 'em!" :pSorry, I'm halfway through my Friday evening bourbon and it only gets worse from here. But seriously, I do like the two Denso O2 sensors I installed on my car, and they come with a packet of...

...and of course I had just filled up the tank. I had read fuel level needs to be "25%-75%," but since fuel level hadn't quite dropped to 75% when the CAT monitor did reset, I think your 85% figure is more accurate. :) For a moment, I thought my using 93 octane may be the problem (my JDM engine...

Funny that you posted this just now. After my P5's passing inspections easily for 20 years, it failed twice last week with both CAT and EVAP monitors showing Not Ready. I didn't know these monitors even existed. I had only ever dealt with actual trouble codes like your P0300 one. I had...

Today, six months after replacing the left LCA, I replaced the right one :p and it seems this has gotten rid of a lot of my remaining clunks. In fact, replacing the *right*-front one almost seems to have further quieted noises from my hitting bumps with the *left*-front wheel, which already had...

So after rebuilding the strut/spring/mount assembly and halfway through installing it, I couldn't get the brake line to fit in its support on the strut because the support had gotten pinched in shipping (see brake line support scraped up and poking out of box in one of the pics above). I was...

There shouldn't be any difference in parts between the '02 and '03 models, but I guess you may as well track the model year you actually have just to be safe. I've only run across one OEM part where Mazda said it would only work on the '02 - and yep, it was an OEM part. I doubt aftermarket...

I was going to mention that RockAuto has a Monroe rear-right strut mount on closeout, but PCB's screenshot beat me to it. $14USD; only one remaining. If you need other items (e.g. windshield wipers!) then you can make it worth the cost of shipping and installing just the one mount to see if it...

Engine knock is a high-pitched, high-frequency sound. A good way to hear it is to drive with a barrier (e.g. a low wall or very high curb) within a few feet of the left or right of your car with your windows down. I did hear the weird two/three thump sounds in your video before your car...

I added the Wholesaler Closeout Parts : 2003 MAZDA PROTEGE5 page to my RSS feed in Outlook for fun and noticed the page updated at least daily. It's no fun to try and compare changes day-to-day that way, so I installed the Web Alert app on my phone to (hopefully) do that for me. It's supposed to...

Did you install those front struts? If so what do you think of them? I may need to replace my six year-old KYBs with OEMs on the rear and Monroes on the front - or Monroes all the way around. I got two rear/rearward lateral control arms for $10+ apiece from the Closeout parts page at...

Yeah, you'd have to hit the Mazda parts catalog to find the MPS (Mazda Performance Series) parts and do a search for them, for example: bn7h-28-700a (right rear) bn7h-28-900a (left rear) You won't ever find those parts on Rock Auto. This page shows a pretty blue Tokico (OEM) strut in all its...

I had no idea that was a thing. I'd heard of Koni inserts, but didn't know you literally hacked them in. @BenjiHoggi Could you could buy struts for the Mazdaspeed Protege? If the MSP (or MP3) was factory lowered, their struts should work but would be spendy. I'm sure more than a couple...

I just read that any Sachs struts you purchase are likely to be made in China if your vehicle didn't come with Sachs originally, or if they weren't offered as an option on your vehicle. I also read that KYB stands for "Keep Your Bilsteins," but unfortunately those aren't available for our cars...

Yeah, in my limited searching I haven't come across any new struts that will work with lowering springs. I also searched for "protege monotube struts" and found nothing. I was mainly doing that for fun, since I'd be tickled to just get rid of my clunks and get the car back to factory ride...

I've been meaning to reply to this thread earlier, but this whole strut/clunk thing has been confusing me. Mainly because I don't know for sure where the clunks are coming from, but also due to the relative lack of good options for our cars, at least in terms of complete strut assemblies...