What have you done to your P5 today?

[THE Phen]

I think it's the green with black stripe. That's the wire that's shorted out on my car, leaving me with absolutely no driving lights.

 

[amsgator]

Get a $0.99 wire tester. It'll have an aligator clip on one end of a wire the a light and a metal probe.

Attach the clip to a grounding spot on the car and stick the other end into the parking light wire loom. Turn on the parking lights and test each wire until you find the one that iluminates the light in the wire testor. Then turn off the parking lights and test that wire again. If it now doesn't light up the tester then that is your wire.

does the tester only light up once or something? also, how hard is it to feed a wire through the firewall?

 

[amsgator]

I think it's the green with black stripe. That's the wire that's shorted out on my car, leaving me with absolutely no driving lights.

cool i'll check that one first. lume=harness? and how can i identify this lume apart from the others?

 

[aMaff]

jesus christ dude. You had a manual in front of you the first time you had sex didn't you?

 

[amsgator]

jesus christ dude. You had a manual in front of you the first time you had sex didn't you?

hm...i think...maybe...nah i ferget

 

[Hy8us]

police p5!
http://www.autodirectsave.com/product/list/2003/Mazda/Protege_Wagon/Police_Light_Sound

 

[magnumP5]

Drove 300 miles back home again. About half way I realized my oil pressure gauge was reading really low. When I got back I checked the oil level and found it didn't even register on the dpistick! Last Fri. it was halfway between F and L and today it was not even there. I added a quart of oil (all I had) and that brought it back up to a little over halfway again. I really need to find out why I'm burning more than a quart of oil in about 2000 miles! No leaks or anything, and the last time I checked (~2 weeks ago) there was no oil in the intake track. What's up?

 

[Foolish]

Ring failure. So sad, but fixed now.

Picture is of the ring falling off. Drove like that for about a month, as it was summer semester and I had no time!

Re-installed, it looks like every other P5 gauge cluster with sexy DaveB rings, so I didn't take another picture!

 

[DeadGeneration]

lol that is one of the things I don't and probably will never understand, gauge rings.

 

[L8R]

Its JDM YO!

 

[rednecks_r_us]

I washed bird poop off my hood today.

 

[Salmon_Rob]

lol that is one of the things I don't and probably will never understand, gauge rings.

it makes the dash not boring and nondescript

 

[THE Phen]

it makes the dash not boring and nondescript

DaveB rings add 60 whp.

Today I experienced my first AWR induced drift. Woah...

 

[magnumP5]

She's down...

 

[Salmon_Rob]

what happened magnum?

 

[magnumP5]

what happened magnum?

I'm pretty sure the turbo has s*** a brick - smoke like crazy under boost and I've gone through more than a qt of oil in less than 700 miles. I suppose it could also be a piston ring, but I do not have blow by or any of the other symptoms. I will be doing a compression test tomorrow though... s*** sucks.

 

[Salmon_Rob]

that does suck. hopefully all you need is a turbo rebuild kit

 

[magnumP5]

that does suck. hopefully all you need is a turbo rebuild kit

Do they offer those for the ball-bearing turbos?

 

[Salmon_Rob]

pretty sure you can get new seals and s***?

 

[magnumP5]

pretty sure you can get new seals and s***?

I thought you had to buy the whole new center cartridge.