What have you done to your P5 today?

[StealthWyvern]

hehe thank u xD wow ur car got 150k? hows it holding up? i heard our cars are like stallions when ya take good care of her.

kk thanks for the advice xD umm kinda stupid question but the hoses i'm looking for are the black ones coming out from the radiator right? i hope nothing happened to the radiator itself ><

Yes the radiator hoses are the two black hoses coming out of it. One on top and one on bottom. Check the other hoeses like aMaff mentioned.


My car currently is creaping up on 156k and will be over that in the next few days. I haven't had any problems nor had the previous owners (2nd owner). The biggest issue's that I have had is tranny slips from time to time.(regular auto and chirps shifting gear most of the time 2 to 3rd)and my rear main seal leaks when it wants to! The previous owners didn't have any problems with it with basic maintence.

it could be those, it could be the 2 coolant hoses that go to the throttle body, or it could be the 2 that go to the connectors on the firewall behind the intake manifold for the heater core.

I seriously hope its not the heater core!!! Man that would sucks. However your right about the other hoses that I forgot all about.

 

[kura808]

lol thanks again xD i just noticed ur car is an auto. how do ya know when ur tranny slips? just wondering if i ever have the problem. what does chirp shifting mean? lol.

o yea another question. would the radiator be considered wear and tear or will it be covered under warranty? if the heater core does have a prob. still got warranty on my car xD hehe

 

[StealthWyvern]

lol thanks again xD i just noticed ur car is an auto. how do ya know when ur tranny slips? just wondering if i ever have the problem. what does chirp shifting mean? lol.

o yea another question. would the radiator be considered wear and tear or will it be covered under warranty? if the heater core does have a prob. still got warranty on my car xD hehe

I'm not sure on that one. I would contact a dealer and inquire about those items. If you care is still underwarrenty I would take it in and have them check it outfor the smell... why bother if you can get a dealer to do it for free or at least look into it.

The best way to explain slipping is when the car shifts gear the rpms jump up by about 500 rpms then drops down. Well my tranny makings a chirping noise from time to time right when it shifts... my grandma makes fun of me about it!lol She said I have a little birdie in my car instead of a hampster. lol

 

[kura808]

ooo i see. haha i think i'll take it in on the next check up unless its like urgent?

umm when i'm sitting in the garage wit my windows down, i shift from park to like reverse or neutral or something, i hear this little gear sound. kinda hard to explain it on the computer lol. its like a robotic sound. is that normal? havent had the jumping up by 500 thing though.

lol thanks for the help so late at night. i've always found these forums very helpful xD

I'm not sure on that one. I would contact a dealer and inquire about those items. If you care is still underwarrenty I would take it in and have them check it outfor the smell... why bother if you can get a dealer to do it for free or at least look into it.

The best way to explain slipping is when the car shifts gear the rpms jump up by about 500 rpms then drops down. Well my tranny makings a chirping noise from time to time right when it shifts... my grandma makes fun of me about it!lol She said I have a little birdie in my car instead of a hampster. lol

 

[StealthWyvern]

ooo i see. haha i think i'll take it in on the next check up unless its like urgent?

umm when i'm sitting in the garage wit my windows down, i shift from park to like reverse or neutral or something, i hear this little gear sound. kinda hard to explain it on the computer lol. its like a robotic sound. is that normal? havent had the jumping up by 500 thing though.

lol thanks for the help so late at night. i've always found these forums very helpful xD

I asumme your talking about that electronic grinding noise that I headr and yes its normal. (I'm always on this late due to the fact that im at work.)

 

[aMaff]

I seriously hope its not the heater core!!! Man that would sucks. However your right about the other hoses that I forgot all about.

It's no fun. Rogue's had to change one on his, and I've had one go on my Miata. It was a b****.

 

[magnumP5]

Anyone here use a sandwich adapter for oil pressure/temperature gauges? I want to move my oil pressure sending unit out-of-line of my oil feed line and I'm wondering if a sandwich adapter plate would be a good idea. Anyone with any experience? Anyone know the threading on the Protege oil filter anyway?

 

[meticule]

FS Info

 

[aMaff]

meticule, not sure if that was spam or not but looked semi legit so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

PM me if you have any questions, but we have a For Sale section specifically for these and they require proper pictures and a few other things. Just tryin to protect the membership.

 

[Bala]

Argh ... found evidence of a leak from my ATX. It's got 4500K left on the warranty, but it's not going to the knuckle-draggers at my local dealership since they took my MSP for a 5 mile joy-ride when it was in to have the rear lip fixed. I'll have to troubleshoot this before the fluid change I was planning for this afternoon ...

 

[kura808]

o ok haha it kinda scared me every once in a while hearing it lol. wow what time was that when u replied? it was like 12 am here in hawaii at the time lol

I asumme your talking about that electronic grinding noise that I headr and yes its normal. (I'm always on this late due to the fact that im at work.)

 

[khaosman]

Anyone here use a sandwich adapter for oil pressure/temperature gauges? I want to move my oil pressure sending unit out-of-line of my oil feed line and I'm wondering if a sandwich adapter plate would be a good idea. Anyone with any experience? Anyone know the threading on the Protege oil filter anyway?

I test fitted a Blox oil filter and it fit fine. I sold it to a member here who was going to use it on his next oil change. Here is the link to where I got it from
http://www.jhpusa.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1825

 

[Woody54]

New Rims

Went to Protege Garage for my little installation day...
New Eibach Pro-kit
Kyowa 17x7
Falken Ziex Ze 512 215-45-17
if you guys have never been there, they do awesome work! gotta love ken!
there is a before pic in there so you can get the idea (no wheel gap now yay!)

 

[Sveivo]

^Man, I love that drop!

 

[Crazee D]

WTF happened to my post from earlier?
It didn't post?
loco

 

[amsgator]

Went to Protege Garage for my little installation day...
New Eibach Pro-kit
Kyowa 17x7
Falken Ziex Ze 512 215-45-17
if you guys have never been there, they do awesome work! gotta love ken!
there is a before pic in there so you can get the idea (no wheel gap now yay!)

stock struts?

 

[whitemp5seattle]

who knew that OBX now has a 4-2-1 header for the p5?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/OBX-...tegoryZ33631QQihZ016QQitemZ260124382286QQrdZ1

 

[Crazee D]

who knew that OBX now has a 4-2-1 header for the p5?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/OBX-Racing-Headers-for-01-03-Mazda-Protege-5-2-0L_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33631QQihZ016QQitemZ260124382286QQrdZ1

sweet find!

 

[rednecks_r_us]

stock struts?

I'm on stock struts with a pro-kit. I've been lowered for about 100,000 miles and still going strong. Currently I have over 122,000 miles on my stock struts.

 

[wmbeaver]

well, tried to clean the egr valve, but couldn't get the 2 bolts that hold it up there loose. any tips? i just couldn't get to them. i took out everything that was in the way, except the battery, as my negative terminal nut was almost rounded off, and i couldn't get it loose. any tips would be appreciated.