What have you done to your P5 today?
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Today my car left the garage to jumpstart a Volvo.. then went back into the garage and got plugged back in 
meanwhile it looks really freakin gross with all the salt on it :'(
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=96576&stc=1&d=1165712705
meanwhile it looks really freakin gross with all the salt on it :'(
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=96576&stc=1&d=1165712705
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- 03.5 YLW MSP
I just went with whatever the guys at napa wanted. I paid around 100 bucks for everything after taxes. They tried to sell me some extra boots, but the coil packs already come with boots.a223818 said:
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- 2006 Infiniti M
coil packs are gay. distributor ft easy to change everything no bolts or stupid finicky boots win
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- 03.5 YLW MSP
Liquid_Ag said:
to change out the wires and coil packs are easier then changin out the plugs and for our cars the coil packs are cheap!
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- 2006 Infiniti M
? what are you talking about. distibutor doing plugs and wires 4 plugs, no bolts - pop, pop, pop, pop, pull the plugs, replace. coil packs = more expensive than just wires, and you have to unbolt things, and it costs 100 dollars for wires and coil packs. my oem 9mm resistor ngk race wires on the 1g were 34 dollars. 4 plugs, 7 dollars. and it took 30 seconds. and sometimes the plugs need to be replaced. you cant just keep replacing coil packs and wires over and over. you need to eventually replace everything
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- 2006 Infiniti M
and the 1gs oem wires are sexy and blue
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Liquid_Ag said:
Well keep in mind that my car has 147k plus miles on it with or well had the OEM wires and packs! s*** is going to go out soon no matter if its a honda with that many miles. However you have to remove the coil packs to get to the plugs on the protege. With a distibutor you have to worry about putting it back in the right spot or its not going to run for s***. Grant it by the time you pay for rotor cap and rotor you ar roughly around 40 bucks which is what i was around with 2 coil packs!
Your also comparing a older car with a newer one! Yeah my old mk2 jetta I could do a complete tune up for around 120 bucks that oil, tranny, rad fluid, plugs, wires, cabin filter, fuel filter and the list goes on.
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- 2006 Infiniti M
you let the stock coil packs stay on that long? iirc in your owners manual it says to change it at all at 60k
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- MP5T / 944
I had sex with my car....
Yah...
Yah...
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- 2006 Infiniti M
what kind of lube?
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- MP5T / 944
Liquid_Ag said:
80W90
kudakev615
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never heard of replacing coil packs as PM. spark plugs yes, coils only get replaced if they are damaged
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Liquid_Ag said:
Yeah so your point.... you will know when they go bad just like spark plug wires. Bedies its not like its a timing belt!
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- 92 & 16 Meyatas
how do you know if your coils are going?
bazooka joe said:
not enough spark?
So today I swapped out my "old" gear oil (3 weeks old) for .. some 75w90 lovin. Yeah um I'll never, ever touch "syncromesh" style gear oils ever again. It is SOOOO perfect with the new stuff. No weird tranny noises, no difficulty getting into 2nd, 4th, or 5th like before.. yeah.
sadly it's Mobil1 :'( I told myself I'd never buy another ExxonMobil product ever again, but uh I already had it and it was just sitting on the shelf so oh well. It'll be fine until March when I change it out during my turbo install
aMaff said:
I had some noises in 3rd and 5th gear, the 1-2 shift was difficult, as was 3-4 and 4-5.
Syncromesh is just fancy ATF, and I definitely want gear oil in my tranny, not ATF
Maybe, just maybe sycromesh makes the shifting feel better than stock on our cars, but I was using Redline MT90 and it was definitely worse than that was.
