Hello to all,
I figured it was about time to introduce myself into the forums here, as of Saturday morning I became the very proud owner of a new (well to me), silver, 2003 protege5. And I must say, I cant wait to get some plates on her and she what she can do on the back roads of Massachusetts (drive) . You can only do so much on the test drive and driving it home with plates from a different car. As much as i already love her she does have a couple of faults, but i can look past these. With 96,000 miles already on her, we'll be joining the 100k mile club shortly. And the usual small amount rusting around the wheel wells and the small pits on the front of the car and hood from almost 100k miles of driving. I have already found the thread about the rusting and what i can do about it to stop it from spreading an more, and perhaps clean as much as i can up. Also there is a dent on the front driver side fender that I'll be looking into removing, might have dent wizard give me a quote if they think they can do it.
If anyone curious this is the car i bought http://nh.craigslist.org/cto/1389849878.html there are a couple of pictures on the bottom of the page of the car, I will probably take some pictures after i get her cleaned up as much as possible.
I'm looking forward to becoming a contributing member of this community, i know I'm happy that its here i already got some great things, love the link to the service manuals especially since I'm the type of person who likes to do the work myself.
As for planned modifications non yet, maybe some new wheels so i can have both summer and winter tires, but well see.
Ohh yeah my name is Dave, 24yr. As for her name, its still to be determined but I'm sure shell get something good when i take her out for a drive.
I figured it was about time to introduce myself into the forums here, as of Saturday morning I became the very proud owner of a new (well to me), silver, 2003 protege5. And I must say, I cant wait to get some plates on her and she what she can do on the back roads of Massachusetts (drive) . You can only do so much on the test drive and driving it home with plates from a different car. As much as i already love her she does have a couple of faults, but i can look past these. With 96,000 miles already on her, we'll be joining the 100k mile club shortly. And the usual small amount rusting around the wheel wells and the small pits on the front of the car and hood from almost 100k miles of driving. I have already found the thread about the rusting and what i can do about it to stop it from spreading an more, and perhaps clean as much as i can up. Also there is a dent on the front driver side fender that I'll be looking into removing, might have dent wizard give me a quote if they think they can do it.
If anyone curious this is the car i bought http://nh.craigslist.org/cto/1389849878.html there are a couple of pictures on the bottom of the page of the car, I will probably take some pictures after i get her cleaned up as much as possible.
I'm looking forward to becoming a contributing member of this community, i know I'm happy that its here i already got some great things, love the link to the service manuals especially since I'm the type of person who likes to do the work myself.
As for planned modifications non yet, maybe some new wheels so i can have both summer and winter tires, but well see.
Ohh yeah my name is Dave, 24yr. As for her name, its still to be determined but I'm sure shell get something good when i take her out for a drive.