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The door handle on my RX-7 started getting hard to move, so I popped off the interior door panel and put some graphite lubricant on the linkage mechanism. Worked great and I haven't had a problem since.

When I was a little kid in the back of my mom's car, my brother and I thought it was real funny to point at other car's tires. Wave your arms to get the driver's attention, look at them wide eyed and point at a tire. You'd be surprised at how many people pulled over. I know, I know, we were...

My sister in law drove an XC90 and it was a nice car. The interior was really nice, the "Thor's Hammer" headlights are sick and it was surprisingly fast. Can't say much about the CX-5 or XC40, because I've never sat in either one, but the Volvo I rode in was a nice car. That said, I did like...

The AWR 21.5mm rear swaybar makes a huge difference if you're planning on tracking the car. It will definitely take care of the understeer. It will also lift a rear wheel every time you go up a driveway at an angle, clunk endlessly, and burn through swaybar brackets about once a year. I ran an...

Stock P5 wheels have a +50 offset. I ran 18x7.5 +48 Volk wheels with some 215/40 tires for years. No fender roll or pull, stock Mazdaspeed Protege suspension and the car never rubbed, plus my cornering wasn't 'hella flushed' down the toilet. :ROFLMAO: Protege 5s arent quick off the line and...

We took the 20s off of our 4runner for 17s and some tires with more sidewall and the ride got much smoother. The tires are definitely louder because of the aggressive tread, but the actual ride got better. It soaks up potholes and bumps in the road much more smoothly. It doesn't corner as...

Idemitsu has been making oil for Mazda rotary engines forever. Good stuff. (y)

..or beat the Integra Type R through the cones with the Mazdaspeed Protege to become the quickest FWD car ever tested through the slalom by Road & Track Magazine. ..or won outright at LeMans, the only Asian carmaker to do so, holding that record for almost 30 years. ..or built the 1st Japanese...

Factory installed on a 2020? I'd make the dealer take care of it. 👍

Yep. From what I constantly see, Jeeps, 4runners and pick up trucks are pretty much the only things NOT getting stuck on the beach. We've dug out so many people that think they have 4WD in their Subaru..Even your Grand Cherokee with it's unibody is a little sketchy in the deep ruts and s***. Hit...

Mazda still has a performance division called Mazda Motorsports, but yes, Mazdaspeed has been gone for a few years now. Seems like Mazda had a killer little "Japanese BMW" niche going for awhile that I guess they wanted to trade in for cheap Lexus or something. Makes me sad because I grew up...

A true 4WD vehicle has locking differentials and a body-on-frame design. AWD uses brakes to keep tires from spinning like a Subaru, and has a unibody design. One will get you across the beach, the other will get you stuck, but has a much better ride on the freeway.

These ones? They were an OEM accessory for a Mazdaspeed 3 or Mazdaspeed 6. :) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DQNLJL2/?tag=m20b7-20

I think the law is there so cops can see who is in the car and what they have in their hand or lap. I agree about the eye contact thing too.

The tint is applied to the inside, so not really. It just tripped my sunglasses out so much that I couldn't wear them, so the tint did the exact opposite of what I wanted and made me squint more.

My tint guy talked me into a light tint on the windshield and it SUCKED. Basically, wearing polarized sunglasses = blind. I ended up paying an arm and a baby's leg to have it removed. Tint is like tattoos like that, it's much more painful to get rid of than to put on.

If you're in America you're gonna get pulled over with 20% on the fronts. There are like 2 states where 20% is legal. Most states allow 35%. The number refers to how much light it lets through, so the lower number the darker the tint. Here's this: https://windowtintlaws.us

Mazda replaced the engine in my Protege5 under warranty due to "oil starvation while cornering". 1: Those cars cornered too well for their own good. Mazda, please go back to making cars like that. and.. 2: I'm glad I kept my oil change receipts, because I had to produce each and every one of...