Bastian's P5 on a college budget

[Bastian]

awesome, thanks for the info guys!! (2thumbs)

 

[Bastian]

I'm half planning on ordering a fairing tomorrow... my ski racks make far too much noise above 40 mph

 

[31N007]

Doooo eeeet I've seen scoobies about with em on and I quite like em. Do you mind me asking why ya changed your name???oh, and you were just recently at 666 posts... Im a post *****. Kinda...

 

[Bastian]

I don't know, swag wagon just seemed a bit silly to me. (dunno) I was also using this name on another forum and figured consistency would be nice.

 

[31N007]

Lol, that's like me. I have this name for psn. I tried to do that on Xbox but someone already has it. So I dropped the s in spades... It still irks me but at least it's close

Tbh, I created this name in nfs prostreet before I knew that I was making my psn ID!!! It stuck needless to say.

 

[Bastian]

Bad news

so we took the P5 on an epic ski adventure to Maine. We managed to drive up on thursday during a blizzard, then wait until saturday to drive home in another blizzard. whoops.

I wouldn't say the P5 handled the snow well, but I'm alive.

Took 5 hours to get there, this is what the car looked like in the parking lot when we left the resort. Keep in mind it was only parked there for 4 hours

when we went to push it out, the passenger side rear wheel wasn't spinning. nothing we did could get it spinning. we ended up calling a tow truck, but when they pulled it up on the flat bed, it started spinning again. we simply assumed there was ice. we were wrong.

we ended up driving the extra 3 hours north to meet my friend that night during the storm. because of the terrible road conditions, I didn't notice anything strange in the way the car handled. My buddy got out and pushed the car on two separate hills, and we were almost killed by two moose and a chihuahua. but that's a different story.

I didn't drive the car on friday, but on Saturday we made the 5 hour trek home, during another snow storm. It wasn't until my delivery shift tonight that I finally noticed that it wasn't ice that stopped the wheel, but a seized caliper. sure enough, I left work and parked in my driveway out of gear and with the ebrake off and tried to push the car on flat ground, to no avail bringing the car to the shop tomorrow, can't wait to see how destroyed everything is

on a side note, here are some bonus pictures

 

[Jackie chan]

Woah, thats no fun.
I thought you just ment the rear caliper retraction bolts were stuck.

 

[Bastian]

the entire right side of my gauge cluster just went out, it feels like everything is just falling apart at once lol

on the bright side, license plate relocation bracket came in today

 

[31N007]

Just a rough patch is all. It'll all get better replace all the lights at once- I personally would. But I dont want one portion to be brighter than another. As long as you can see the tach and speedo, its all okay I saw one member in the "what have you dont thread" put some bright bulbs in his and they looked exceedingly nice! If I wasn't so lazy, I'd put a link in here. I'll look later today and post it maybe. If I remember.

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123616046-What-have-you-done-to-your-P5-today/page1777

post #53305

 

[Bastian]

thanks for the link! and I can only see the lower half of the speedo and my gas and temp gauges. tach is completely gone at night.

 

[31N007]

Ohhhh. That's no good. And most certainly not a problem with the link mate. #53308 is where he says what bulbs he uses hopefully I could be of assistance.

 

[Bastian]

license plate relocated, excuse the absolute filth on the side of the car

 

[31N007]

It just shows that you use your baby! Mimes collecting dust while yours is earning dirt

I think that's a good thing im just glad that I dont need a front plate here in Michigan

What's that thing on your front fender, under the side marker by the door molding thingy? IIRC, i dont have that on my car...

 

[Bastian]

it's an "MP3" style sticker that says "MP5" from the previous owner. From the research I've done it's from an online aftermarket performance website for our cars that isn't around anymore. MP5online.com I think it was. I just never took it off (shrug)

 

[31N007]

Fair enough. its pretty neat, even if I cant see it well! Is there one on the other side? If not, that's odd. But hey, its unique!

 

[Bastian]

Yeah, both sides. I'm imagining that the PO bought the Injen CAI from the website and these stickers probably came with it. Just a theory though

 

[JDM_Pro5]

You need to change the title of this thread now

 

[Bastian]

true (stash) if a moderator comes through here, they should totes help me out with that (2thumbs)

 

[31N007]

I was thinking that earlier too... Its like on mine, im mad that I missed the end " on my "build" bit... Ill live though. Completely irrelevant though. And this is where I decide to go to bed before I say anything too much more stupid

 

[Bastian]

here's a close up of one of the badges

also washed up today