mazdalifestyle
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- 2001 Mazda Protege ES 2.0, 2015 Mazda3i Touring
My rust is just at my rear wheel wells, and very slowly creeping up.
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boostracer
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- 2003 Protege ES & 1988 Pontiac Fiero GT
Broke 134,000 miles the other morning. I don't have any issues with rust so far, but I'm lucky to live in a town that uses gravel when it snows, and is dry for the most part during the spring and summer.
MixManMash
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- 02 Protege ES 2.0
Here's my rust pics from November. Through the winter, it has gotten a little worse. I'll take some pics after washing the car. As of now, I have 319140 kms. Getting close to 200000 miles!
http://www3.telus.net/mahesh5/rust/
http://www3.telus.net/mahesh5/rust/
31N007
31N007
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- Mazda Protege5
Dang... That makes mine look like a new car. I mean you no offense by saying that. I think your car and Phens might be pretty close on the holey rust scale. Do ya have plans of fixing it or... And my windshield looks sorta like that. The wiper swings too far over and I think it just pushes more and more water into the seal-area.
MixManMash
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- 02 Protege ES 2.0
No plans to fix it at this point. It's terminal and the cost to fix the rust is higher than the value of the car. Pretty much all of them rust in my area. I plan to drive it till it's just not safe anymore. Once that rust spreads towards suspension mount points or door latches, it will be dropped off to the closest salvage yards. Pretty sad, because mechanically, it could go for a long time. I'm at about 198500 miles (319455 kms).
french02chris
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- 1999 protege dx 1.6l
1999 Mazda Protege 1.6L
Runs great!!! start at the 1st try...and 230500 miles!!! Yah!!
Runs great!!! start at the 1st try...and 230500 miles!!! Yah!!
Installshield 2
Gothenburg Superiority
yeah wow. My passenger rear fender bubbled probably 2.5 years ago, but has not changed from the outside. I picked up a few cans of that naval jelly stuff, rusted metal primer, and 3M rubberized spray last week...will be trying to seal off all fender wells as much as possible this weekend...I can't really tell where the rust, or even water is coming from...as inside the rear well it looks nearly perfect...the painted surface only bubbled just above where the bumper meats the fender, and is about half the side of a fist...I'm going to try to take the whole rear bumper off and really seal that up with the undercoating...hopefully that buys a few more years...
Same thing for the little patch of rust on the passenger side of the engine bay...that definitely WAS growing over the past year, but still is relatively small...it started as just a crack of rust, and that grew to the same size as the rear fender, roughly...i've been spraying it with PB blaster every couple of weeks lately, and that has completely stalled the process...but its another weird one, as its not coming from inside the fender well...it seems like water leaks down there from the side of the hood...I'll seal that off with the same shat i bought for the wells...hopefully i can stop it from spreading before it gets terminal...doesn't seem to be close to that just yet, though...
mazdalifestyle
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- 2001 Mazda Protege ES 2.0, 2015 Mazda3i Touring
I'm so pissed I missed it by a mile because I was arguing haha.
Funny thing is...I may drive it no more than 50 miles in a week. Back in the day I did around 3500-4000 in a month...at least!!!
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- 1999 mazda protege es
Im just now replacing the original clutch turns out the disc had lots of life left and my car has 321000 miles half of the cars life a jet ski was pulled with it
nicqcrenaud
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- protege5 2002
2002 Protege5 paid 650$ lol 217 000km so around 135 000 miles, doesn't burn oil, just changed all three belts, sparks plugs, a bearing and a ball joint. starts at -40 degree no prob. looking to drive it across canada this summer and put as many miles as the body dares to last, i'm having an epic fight against rust ! I may post on this fight one day if I succeed to stop it