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    WTF. Getting pissed.

    Ok guys I'm getting a little irritated now. I have a rattle on my car which happens usually if I accelerate at about 1500 rpm or a bit less. Now, I've had it looked at twice and both times they said it was the heat shields. One was taken off and he one under the hood was completely replaced, but...
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    Long drive, then... This normal?

    So I just went on a trip to see the family which is about a 5 hour drive each way. Today I was on the way back home, so I was on the highway for about that 5 hours straight going about 115 km as the average speed. When I hit a patch of traffic about 30 min from home, I came to a complete stop...
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    Sudden problem, don't know what's causing it... HELP!

    I don't know what this means--as I'm pretty dumb with car stuff--but just today I think I ran into a slight problem with my car. It's a 2002 Mazda Protoge 5 with a manual transmission, and it's been running fine up until today. The problem is, when I accelerate in first gear to get the car...
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    New Protoge5 Owner, Rattle?

    Hey everyone! This will be my first post here, and I don't know that much about cars so bare with me here. So I just purchased a used 2002 Protoge 5 and I really like it, but I just noticed something: it's standard, and when I start to accelerate from a stopped position, I sometimes hear this...
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