Hi all,
thought i'd introduce myself, I go by Marchy and I'm the proud owner of a 2003 P5 named the silver surfer. I picked it up this past spring as a replacement for my wife's 08 focus coupe. The focus was a nice reliable vehicle but the seats were terrible and we needed something bigger. One of my good friends was looking to trade up to a CX5 but the dealer was really lowballing him on the p5 trade-in value. Knowing that my wife has always loved the p5 i was able to beat the dealers offer and picked up the car for dirt cheap.
The car had 143k miles when i bought it and on the ride home I could tell the motor mounts were shot and the OEM clutch was on its last legs and i needed some new tires. I did some research, and picked up the AWR motor mount set, I also picked up an exedy clutch and i can't remember which flywheel from amazon. Normally i'd have installed these myself but wasn't able to coordinate a time to use my buddies lift so I paid a shop to deal with it. Kinda glad i did as they ran into a snag during the motor mount installation.
The car drove so much nicer after these but about a month later a P0420 CEL kept showing up. Since the car was seeing about 25MPG freeway I figured that the O2 sensors were on their way out so picked them up from Rockauto and treated my wife to a birthday present and got her a corksport exhaust and some tint. (she had been asking for a better sounding exhaust and to get rid of the fishbowl feeling while driving). This time i was able to secure my buddies lift and went to work. The install was pretty easy and the car is running like a top getting better fuel mileage than before with a best tank of 37MPG going from Seattle to eastern washington and back. The corksport exhaust sounds amazing, deep rumble and pretty aggressive when you're on the gas but not in a buzzy way at all. It might be a bit loud without the silencer for some but on longer roadtrips i just put the silencer back on and its perfect.
how bout a few pictures
picture of the bad O2 next to a new one
and as she sits now after some tint
Next up is just simple stuff, roof rack, some wheels and once the suspension goes out some coil overs.
thought i'd introduce myself, I go by Marchy and I'm the proud owner of a 2003 P5 named the silver surfer. I picked it up this past spring as a replacement for my wife's 08 focus coupe. The focus was a nice reliable vehicle but the seats were terrible and we needed something bigger. One of my good friends was looking to trade up to a CX5 but the dealer was really lowballing him on the p5 trade-in value. Knowing that my wife has always loved the p5 i was able to beat the dealers offer and picked up the car for dirt cheap.
The car had 143k miles when i bought it and on the ride home I could tell the motor mounts were shot and the OEM clutch was on its last legs and i needed some new tires. I did some research, and picked up the AWR motor mount set, I also picked up an exedy clutch and i can't remember which flywheel from amazon. Normally i'd have installed these myself but wasn't able to coordinate a time to use my buddies lift so I paid a shop to deal with it. Kinda glad i did as they ran into a snag during the motor mount installation.
The car drove so much nicer after these but about a month later a P0420 CEL kept showing up. Since the car was seeing about 25MPG freeway I figured that the O2 sensors were on their way out so picked them up from Rockauto and treated my wife to a birthday present and got her a corksport exhaust and some tint. (she had been asking for a better sounding exhaust and to get rid of the fishbowl feeling while driving). This time i was able to secure my buddies lift and went to work. The install was pretty easy and the car is running like a top getting better fuel mileage than before with a best tank of 37MPG going from Seattle to eastern washington and back. The corksport exhaust sounds amazing, deep rumble and pretty aggressive when you're on the gas but not in a buzzy way at all. It might be a bit loud without the silencer for some but on longer roadtrips i just put the silencer back on and its perfect.
how bout a few pictures
picture of the bad O2 next to a new one
and as she sits now after some tint
Next up is just simple stuff, roof rack, some wheels and once the suspension goes out some coil overs.
