The Soul is super plush and premium compared to the P5 with Tokicos, Tein springs, and MSP rims and tires. Granted the P5 is a 14-year-old car. But I wasn't expecting it to drive as nice as it does, with all of the premium features added in. Reliability has been good for the 2nd gen Souls and...
Was originally only shopping for either a 1st or 2nd gen MZ3 hatch (on/off for 2 years), but some deals fell through. Then Kia Soul popped on to the radar! There's a lot of nice premium features for what you pay for. But more things to break too...Lol.
I tried to do as much research as I could and trust that the reliability ratings will carry over to my ownership. At some point you just have to take a leap of faith and hope for the best :) Warranty is a safety blanket but nobody likes to have to go to the dealership over and over again even...
Sold my P5 today at 140K miles for $3250. I was the second owner for seven reliable years. It was time to get into something different that was still practical. I was growing tired of rowing gears after 24 years of owning only MT cars (5 in total); I wanted something that my wife could drive...
As mentioned, the headlights will fit the Protege5. Depending on the bulbs required for the projectors (i.e. H1, D2S), you need to get the proper HID kit and then hook up the connectors to your OEM wiring. You can YouTube Hid kit install.
I installed ours last July and we like to use it with our Kuat Sherpa. I got a killer deal off Amazon Warehouse Deals for $50 - it was labeled as used one, but I think the only thing wrong with it was that the box was damaged, because the hitch was never installed or used. They knocked off $20...
Removing the pinstriping from our 2010 MZ5 was one of the first things I did. It went pretty smoothly and quickly. I can't remember the exact chemical I used, but right after I got worried because it looked like the color didn't match where the pinstriping once was, but after a few days it...