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You said the right front tire was in terrible shape, so did you change out the tires? Maybe there is some uneven tread wear? FWD cars eat tires for breakfast, and if the previous owner never bothered to maintain alignment, one of the fronts could have very uneven wear. I was originally going to...

Been doing a lot searching on the forum, and seems 205/50-16 are the consensus for stock 16" rims, since 195/50 is so hard to find without compromising to all season junk. I currently have Kumho Ecsta SPTs (back when they still made in in 195/50s) that are almost down to nothing. Got a good...

Sorry to bump an old thread, but this is just pissing me off now. I changed the passenger side brake light a year ago. Took like 5 minutes. No fuss. Driver side brake light went out about 3 months ago. Finally got around to replacing it this weekend. I started going at the nut with a socket...

Hi, I need to buy the bulb that goes in the front side marker on my 2002 P5. (I'm talking about the yellow light on the side of the front bumper. NOT the turn signal on the fender. I won't get into the details, but I don't have the old bulb anymore, so I need to verify the part number before I...

2002 P5, 87000+ miles. Lately, I've been getting a weird squealing/hissing noise from the front of the car while driving. Off throttle and on throttle, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter what gear, or what RPM. It seems to start making the noise randomly, when I hit a bump. It's a high pitched...

Hm, just happened last week to me, the Firestone by my house patched it for 15.99. You boys in TN must have expensive labor! ;)

Hi, 2002 Protege5. Browsing Crutchfield, looking at getting something nice ... and noticed this listed in the Installation details for the P5: Hm. What's this about unbolting or cutting out the factory rear support bracket? Also, I noticed that they have listed on their site, 2 different in...

Saw those morons on sunday afternoon too, they weren't turning off the TC, they were pulling the handbrake. Idiots had on drifting t-shirts. They couldn't hit an apex to save their lives.

He's on a totally different level than everyone else, Altenberg in an identical car is competitive, but has trouble keeping up with cunningham and kleinubing. Hopefully Randy's used up all his badluck for the yr, because he really should be driving away with the championship by now.

Anyone catch the cleveland race this weekend? Espenlaub in the new 6 almost won, but kleinubing did a kamikaze into turn 1 on the last lap and took the win. Altenburg finsihed fifth scoring pts for Tripoint, but Pobst had more badluck and had to work from the back, but still posting a new...

Wouldn't it make more sense to compare it to the 6?

Just got this month's R&T, and they said the DSG shifts faster than any manual or automatic they've ever driven! The author said it felt like the smooth quick shifts of a video game. heh. All the options you can get in an A4 you can get in the A3. But they were very dissapointed in the squishy...

Just because hatchbacks are suddenly cool again in the US doesn't mean they haven't been around in europe and asia for almost 30 yrs. I like the new Audi, its like an A4 lite, especially considering the A4 prices keep climbing.

yeah, the factory paint sucks. i've got a 2002.5, used to have lots of dings and scratches on the bumper and hood. got in a small fender bender last yr, had the entire hood and front bumper repainted at a body shop, and after a yr it still looks like new.

does this usually happen after you've accelerated very hard in fifth or fourth gear with the A/C on? this is a known issue. There's nothing wrong with your car. If you have the A/C on, and floor the accelerator, the car turns the A/C compressor off, and for a couple minutes, it smells funky...

there's actually a law against this. but either way, if you can afford a enzo, you wouldn't really care about how much the oil change costs. :D

you should have got out of your car and ran. i mean, it is a pontiac... save you the gas and tires. ;)

if the chips are smaller than a nickel, look in the yellow pages and call a windshield repair shop. most of them have mobile units (a guy in a pickup truck) and will come to your work or house during the day. It costs about 30-50 bucks depending on the chip/crack and takes like 15 mins. get...

Ugh! okay. How the freak did you guys put a license frame holder on the back of the car? I have a license frame i want to put on the back, but that fat ugly black plastic thing that came with the car is putrid. I took it off, only to discover that the holes underneath are farging Japanese holes...

Nice deal on the 0%! But sorry to burst your bubble but that BS your dealer fed you about the last Yellow P5 is doodoo. If a dealer ever did that to me I would bite his head off. :bs: Just got back from Anaheim Mazda and they had a nice 2002 yellow P5 sitting front and center. And a quick...