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I picked up an 07 sedan Thursday with 113k miles. Crossing my fingers that the MD inspection doesn't find anything major. In my experience, most of the vehicles are being sold by a dealer or a guy who has a dealer license and buys and sells out of his house. So, very difficult to find one...

I am looking to possibly buy a used Mazda3. 1. What years/trims had ABS? 2. What 'problems' should I be on the lookout for? Thanks,

Lets see... stock, new radiator, new water pump, I use full synthetic 5w30, whatever is the cheapest oil deal that Advance Auto has at the time. Change oil every 3500 miles Never over reved, This is an automatic that my daughter is driving. I use seafoam every 15k miles, but in the brake...

My protege is starting to burn oil :( burned about a quart over 1200 miles. It has 226k miles and is rusting apart, so at this point I am just trying to keep it alive as long as possible. Would switching to a higher weight oil help? If so, what weight? 10w30 or jump all the way to 10w40

I use Motorcraft MTX-75. - The miata guys swear by this stuff - miata takes same spec gear oil as P5 - mine was developing a 3rd gear grind and this cleared it up Its expensive from the Ford dealer. So your gonna wanna buy it here...

So, I am getting an intermittent P0421. Sometimes it will be confirmed and the CEL will come on. Sometimes I'll clear the codes and it will go through the whole drive cycle ok, but then 500 miles later I'll get a CEL. I already have the spark plug non-fouler extension on my lower/2nd O2...

Depends what you mean by 'rear suspension'. Basic suspension parts should be the same (springs, shocks, rear lower trailing arm). But the P5 has 5 lugs and the protege has 4 lugs, so if your talking about the whole rear assembly then they are different.

So, pulled a CEL with a P0134 - O2 sensor No activity, Bank 1, Sensor 1 Which O2 Sensor is this? Is it the upper one or the lower one? Thanks,

dang, that sucks. Thanks

The P0300 is most likely a coil pack.

Does anyone know if a 99 Protege Hood will fit an 02 Protege5 ?

Code came back when temp dropped. Good news, I believe it is now fixed. I replaced the battery and idle is noticeably lower and code has not come back.

Does anyone know if the hood for a 99 protege will fit an 02?

Ok.... get this Red Plasti-Dip is an exact (or at least so good I can't tell the difference) match. Add the glossifier and wala.

So, my side mirrors are faded. I'd like to make them look better on the cheap. What is the best matching dupli-color for 02 Red P5?

Make sure you do an OBD II scan. Make sure there are no codes and all the Readiness stuff comes back as 'Ready' or 'n/a'. In my experience all the emissions stuff on these cars can be a PITA.

Re-read my original post.... I did not replace anything. I swapped (as in moved from one position to the other) coil packs and passenger side (#2 and #3) spark plugs when I got the P0302. My reasoning was, since the code was constant, I could find out if the code either 'followed' the bad spark...

So, back in January I got a P0302 (Cylinder #2 misfire) - swapped passenger side spark plugs - swapped ignition coils Just got a P0304 (Cylinder #4 misfire) Am I correct in my thinking that the driver's side coil pack is most likely the problem, or possibly the wire underneath the coil pack...

What is this sensor? Just above the oil filter... Its leaking oil :(

Ok, so finally got this solved. It was the IAC valve. That's right I swapped TB and IAC with my other car and the code stayed with this one. Took it to shop and they replaced the IAC and that solved the problem. I have no idea how that is possible. The ECU's OBDII tests must have very tight...