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I am now the owner of two Mazda Proteges. 2003 Sunlight Silver Protege5 5mt with 216k - my 6-year daily-driver 2003 Beige Protege ES Sedan tiptronic auto with 228k - from a family member I've driven the automatic before but holy cow that 4spd automatic is absolute TRASH. Brings the whole car...

At 215k miles, developed an idle misfire that eventually got bad enough that you could see it on the tach and it threw a code for #3 misfire. Replaced wires and plugs and checked spark plug on #3 and it was noticably worse than other plugs. Did a dry compression test and it came back 180 180...

This exact thing happened to me! I was shocked at how hard it was to find a good replacement mirror that was color matched. Now I'm paranoid to move the mirrors lest I break them again.

Bought this AC compressor clutch kit. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DGTKXNS2 It came with the clutch, pully, and magnetic thing. I sanded and wiped down the old pulley and pressure plate on the compressor because I didn't want to risk the cheap China bearing in the Amazon kit and the...

I'm an idiot. As always when posting these kinds of things, I keep researching after posting to try and understand the problem more. I went out to try and test the resistance on the clutch coil and the clutch is just gone. Literally exactly what happened here...

My air conditioning stopped working last summer and now that it's getting warmer, I'm trying to fix it on the cheap. Here's where I'm at The compressor seems to not be kicking on even with the AC light on. I have the Harnessed Performance AC light flicker harness so this is not *that* issue...

I will vouch for all of this. EXCEPT that Honda/Acura, Lexus, and most other OEM 5x114.3 wheels are going to have a different, often smaller hub diameter meaning they won't fit on the Protege's hub without some jenky spacers or machining of the hub/wheels. OEM 5x114.3 wheels that do fit are...

This is so cool. Love those wheels. Looks like they're off a newer NC. Have been looking for some for my P5.

I find this to be the case for most that I see. Driven unappreciatively. I'm in Hawaii on vacation right now. It's turist central here so most cars are new and I expected to see no P5s, but over the week I've seen 2 silvers and a yellow. Definitely not common here.

This is crazy but really cool. Not something I'd attempt, but as an engineer, it's very intriguing to me. I'll certainly be following to see how it goes! My brother has an 03 tiptronic, it's definitely soft and spongy compared to my 03 5speed. Curious how it goes with a turbo 😁

Those headlights are SPENDY but wow do they look cool. I've definitely got the diy budget friendly version but they've been their own share of headaches. Just today I'm pulling one out to get the lens off and reseal it since it's leaked a bit.

This car has been pretty good to me in the last 6 months, which is probably why I haven't been on here too much. I just checked on my stock front brakes because I'm starting to hear some noise, and the outside pads have plenty of life but the inside pads are basically shot. They're Hawk HPS...

This is a good suggestion and one I briefly stumbled across in my research, but I was hoping to do this with parts I had readily on hand, and I don't think I had the right diode. I may check again to see if I have any and if not, get some on order. I suspect that the weird issues I was seeing...

Alright so it's been over a week with the hardware installed. The key takeaway is that it works but is quirky. Below are some of the things I noticed that can be fixed, and some that are outright weird. Unlocking the car from the interior unlock button on the door is the equivalent to...

This is smart. I've done it before but didn't think to do it here. Might give it a try soon. My trunk light doesn't work so I'm going to have to check on that too at some point.

Cool cool. Considering your JDM replacement engine stories, I was thinking you were the right person to answer this question.

It works! This is a lame update but I did get the system working...mostly. I'll add more later. I was able to fix the immediate relocking issue by changing the values of the voltage divider resistors I was using to 10k and 20k instead of 1k and 2.2k. The logic behind this is that the higher...

Slow progress... Progress has been slow but I haven't given up! After I made the last post, I quickly realized that my graph was incorrectly labeled...not that it matters much. The data was taken without the module plugged into the car and I was getting some really weird measurements that...