Bought new coil packs, spark plug wires and spark plugs, should be here by Friday. I just bought my MSP a few days ago, it's in kinda rough shape mechanically. The owner before me was my GM and he installed a cold air intake, looks like an aftermarket strut bar, new radio, boost gauge, fuel/air gauge and oil pressure gauge (which doesn't work) and mounted them on the A pillar. It looks nice, the interior's solid, just need to get everything fixed. I'm told the oil cooler has a leak too, so that should be fun.
For some reason it falls flat on its face during boost, it's like there's no acceleration at all. Vacuum only reads about 15 at idle according to the boost gauge, I pulled three codes from the OBD: P2009 P0090 and P0660.
I really don't think I will sell 1345 ever, but as time goes on I think about it more and more. Now that I can afford a newer car it makes it that much harderIt's been dying. It was dying in 2011 When I moved from a P5 to the MSP. The "well-known" And well-versed MSP owners were ditching them then. They just need owners like us. And they're out there. Few though, but there are fewer MSPs.
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SweetI will, hopefully, by driving my new car home Thursday.
Hint: It's retained the Mazdaspeed moniker.
mazdaspeed6!? the only other one id buy.. might buy if i can find one....
i believe it's a cx-7
The guys should drive the car up to you if he wants to sell it.Likely not, as they didn't have a 'Mazdaspeed' CX-7.
However...
I had planned to go Monday, Labor Day, to go look at and subsequently purchase said car, but found out that the owner does not currently have the title as there is a loan against it with his credit union. No big deal, but he's 2.5 hours away from me and his credit union doesn't have a branch open on Saturdays for us to get the title. I work Monday through Friday, and some Saturdays, 6:30AM to 5:30PM. Issue. We work it out so that I can meet him today at 3 o'clock after I leave work at lunch time.
Fast forward to an hour ago- I receive a text message from my operations manager saying he will not be in today. Great, but I can have my parts manager run the shop for 4 hours.
Fast forward to 10 minutes ago- I receive a text message from my parts manager saying he's staying home with his sick daughter today.
My service writer quit/got let go two weeks ago, so I have absolutely no one to handle the shop this afternoon.
What a ******* joke. I'm so ******* pissed off right now.
It will all work out, though the waiting sucks. I just brought #1552 home last night. There has been a 10 year hiatus since I sold my 03.5 Titanium (#13)
Yeah, that's great and all, but he has a loan against the car through his local credit union that I am paying off to purchase the car. It's got to be done in his town.