Hello and wish me luck!

Here is the present! Finally got some pix, so you guys would not think "This dude is pulling it on us!" :)

The car plate says "For my wife, with Love". The dealer plate was ugly as hell, so I flipped it over and pasted the text, printed previously on paper. She says lots of people overtake her and look at her, smiling.
 

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ansatzjp said:
BTW, where is Jandree22? Every post here needs to be stamped by Jandree22!!
Haha, thanks for noticing... While all this was going on, my wife had to under-go an emergency appendectomy Friday morning and was in the hospital for a few days. But she's home now and recovering pretty well :)

pulmino, welcome to the site and props to you for a sweet, classy act for the wifey! Sounds like you executed it perfectly and you're having a blast. Congrats with everything, and enjoy! Zoom Zoom in the 5 and in the bed (naughty)
 
Damn nice present, wish i had the cash to present my wife with something like that (before she stole 40,000 from me that is) but that is besides the point! i would have done the same if i could have!!

did you wrap a bow around it?

rob
 
sure, i have drank 6 beers and abt 6 shots of 150$ wisky and i still read everything fine!!
have fun at work

rob
 
Hi everyone!

Is it totally inappropriate to dig back from the dead your own first thread after more than five years? :)

I was just stopping by to reports some tires experiments (in another thread) and then I went back digging this thread and it was just interesting to see a pix of the car when it was brand new and read and remember all the excitement that went into those days back then....

Well, now that I got some time to write few words, may as well update the forums with whats going on with the car!

We still have it, it is still the wife's car. It has 62.000 miles so far and we still like driving it and so far is becoming one of the best 20K I ever put on something! Very, Very reliable (hope nothing goes wrong now that I said it, LOL!) and it just fits in so many daily life situations, I often think about how did we live before having something like the 5.

Switched to synthetic long ago and doing 10k miles oil changes. replaced air filter once. replaced tires once. replaced the battery once (but must say is all wife's fault as she keeps forgetting the lights on when she makes prolonged stops, then I keep charging the battery, but she keeps forgetting and eventually the battery could not recover anymore, so we got a new one, but my point is - I bet it was avoidable, so I would not blame the battery. Now she finally learned how to switch off the lights and we are good with the second battery for few years). that is really it. nothing else have been touched.

What truly amazes me with this car is the brakes! At 60+ K miles, the pads are still so thick, I bet we will get beyond 100K looking at how they are wearing. and that is simply remarkable considering how well the car breaks for how heavy it is!

If there is one thing I could wish - well let's make them two (and I am sure my wish is in line with so many here) is to have little bit more low end torque and to have 5th gear. I know the new Autos have the 5th and I see they put the bigger engine there too, so perhaps all that is solved with the newer models, but my early model would be so great with little bit of that. But, must say, we have got used to all that and we just drive it differently, in the slower lanes when going through long steep hills and in general just enjoying the ride and scenery rather than the performance of the car.

It is one of the few cars I had which makes me just happy to be riding in it and for some odd reason once I am in it, I just don't care much that is not a rocket. Maybe is almost a blessing that it is on the slow side. Makes you focus on other nice things in life....

We plan to drive it to the ground. Or to drive it till the repair bills are starting to be more than what buying another car would cost. Our first Mazda and so far it has been great!

Hope you all "early adopters" have similar or better experiences!

Happy motoring and perhaps will bump this in another 5 years :)

p
 
Interesting. Thanks for the update.

I suggest you show your wife the battery charger and tell her to have fun. Of course, then she'll hook it up backwards and destroy the battery or the electronics. Never mind. Don't do that.
 
Did you miss replacing the sparkplugs? Dealership will say its 'not needed yet'. But if you remember how those older cars run with new spark plugs?
I changed mine with one from Canadian tire (also iridium). And I'll be replacing them maybe each year. Just for 'placebo effect'. Actually the
motor does run much smoother. And if there is a problem down the line I can already rule out the sparkplugs.

Ours is a 2006 GT. Pampered, always in a shaded garage, Block heater when temp dips down to -15 celcius, seldom parked for long in the open,
but still managed to acquire few battle scars (2 dings, gashes in the under side of side sills, and curb gashes on one of the alloy wheels.
lots of tiny 'stone' chips on the windshield but not enough numbers yet to warrant replacing the 'factory installed winshield''. Rear shocks
will be replaced in the spring time.
 
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