Manual swap! No balls!
kidding of course, it's your whip and you do with it what you want
What have you done to your P5 today?
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kidding of course, it's your whip and you do with it what you want
My daughter christened P5 as Nezuko form the anime Demon Slayer. I obliged.
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- -- 03 P5 / 23 CX-5 --
i like having both manual and auto......and the balls are in the motor not the gearbox.......it'll bang up against the speed limiter with ease.....no clutch necessary. Don't need to be rollin around at 120 anyway so i've been makin due with the slapstick and happy widdit for 16 yrs now. jan 2004 scored it new. diggin it as much or more now. been great ride.Manual swap! No balls!
kidding of course, it's your whip and you do with it what you want
only car I ever bought new, I think it was Nov/Dec 2003. I tell my kids that it's my first-born.
Theres a P5 with 85k miles and 1 owner near me for $3000 bucks, I'm tempted to go grab it, specially since mine just let the clutch go.
BenjiHoggi
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- Oregon, USA
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- 22v Protege5
WOW that sounds like a really good deal, at least for what I usually see in my area. I'd be concerned that there's something the seller might be trying to hide. That, or they just don't know what it's worth.
Edit: Now that I think about it, most "enthusiasts" would probably overvalue their car brand/model. $3k seems to be on the very low end for a car of that condition, but not totally ridiculous at all.
Welp, the car is too far for me to be able to go grab, but I found a Mazdaspeed Protege on FB Market for $2600, so I'm gonna go see that
Here's the link to the 88k, 1 owner P5 if anybody wants to go grab it, I'd love to see it in the forum: https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/inven...stings.action?pid=sl_navbar#listing=293041641
Dentless Thursday. Tried to takeout the dent on the bumper and quarter panel. It's harder than it looks compared to Youtube!
Man, I'd attempt the rust repair on my fender, but I know myself, and I know I'll see clean metal and think "good enough" and that will just cause the rust to come back like a cancer and come back even worse, so nah. Until I have 2-3k to put in at a good body shop to get that fixed then send it to Maaco for a repaint, I'm not touching it.
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Use some wd40 on a shop rag and rub that other color paint off your silver...........
The rust club.
www.mazdas247.com
Rust on door trim, repair tips?
Hey now! Wondering if anybody had tips regarding rust on door trims. See pictures below. I was looking at the video from Chris fix as a guide and do it as a learning experience. My onky concern is if I sand too much the whole thing may break off. Is it even worth it to attempt the repair ?
How difficult is this mod? The light on my p5 is very dim. : (
From what I've seen in the manual, the cluster is very easy to take out, you just gotta be careful with the wiring!
Cluster LED lights swap
Replaced all cluster lights to LED and did a mess, tach does not work, temp gauge all the way up when started have not driven it to see if the odometer works. Any guess on what happened, need a specific type of bulb? Any info would be appreciated.
LOL I feel the same way. I just hope that the folks here have some patience with my dumbas*!
Update on the status of disrepair of my Footmobile (that's what I've named my P5): Clutch let go yesterday, luckily I managed to limp it home before it started slipping. Ordered a new clutch kit from AMS and it's shipped today, gonna have my local shop put it in. I'm kinda concerned because I can get it in and out of gears easily without pressing the clutch while it's on, but it's not slipping, so I'm hoping I didn't shatter any gears/blow my transmission to Chattahoochee. Hopefully they'll let me help, although I don't know which way a wrench turns!
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I noticed you bought new clutch slave and master cylinders.
I remember a lot of guys had problems with aftermarket slave and master cylinders.
They wouldn't last and a lot of people had to pay the big bucks and buy the OEM version to fix the problem.
One guy was trying to find rebuild kits for them to avoid the aftermarket stuff.
