What have you done to your P5 today?

[bikingpro5]

yeah, it should fit fine. The only difference between the two cars occurs after the back seat.

thanks, i figured that but wanted to make sure.

 

[ProjectBlack]

Dropping Black off Friday to get the bumpers, side skirts, hood, and spoiler re-painted in black mica.

 

[bgibb68]

I can think of a few things:

• The bearing was incorrectly pressed into the steering knuckle (eg. pressure was applied to the inner race)
• The axle nut was over/under torqued
• The steering knuckle is bad, probably from the bearing's outer race spinning in the knuckle
• s***-quality bearing

so the bearing seized and scoured the hub.......and i nees a new hub...any sellers??

When i backed car off of trailer cracked the hell outta front bumper and might have bent exauat
.......Great e'ffn day

 

[CheeseHelmet]

so the bearing seized and scoured the hub.......and i nees a new hub...any sellers??

Get it new from Mazda, I think they're less than $100 from onlinemazdaparts.

EDIT: Oops, I thought you meant the steering knuckle... Hubs are quite pricey from Mazda, I'd recommend checking out rockauto, they have them for pretty cheap (but not all the time).

Or you could take a gamble like I did and get a whole new hub+bearing+knuckle assembly from a scrapyard...

 

[reut1]

so i went and got the estimate for the damage to my car finally and it came to a god damn $4600! they would want to cut out and replace the quarter panel rather than fix it. So now i gotta go to the insurance and have an appraiser look at it. hopefully i can convince them to not total if they would. Just say "listen, i want to keep the car. give me just a few less than the amount needed to total it and lets go!"

ill throw a new door on the car and leave the quarter panel dented before i get rid of my p5!!

 

[bazooka joe]

80% of blue book value.....you're cooked!

 

[Lewis7789]

That sucks, Kyle... I hope she will live on.

I'm getting ready to pull my JDM KLDE to put in my Milly this weekend. Then my P5 will be sitting in the garage for the rest of the winter while she gets a lightly built KLZE, MegaSquirt ECU, MFactory LSD, racing seats/harnesses and roll bar and possibly new wheels. The drive home from work just now will be the last time she'll be running for a couple months. Kinda sad, but I'm stoked about the new build. (wiggle)

 

[CheeseHelmet]

That sucks, Kyle... I hope she will live on.

I'm getting ready to pull my JDM KLDE to put in my Milly this weekend. Then my P5 will be sitting in the garage for the rest of the winter while she gets a lightly built KLZE, MegaSquirt ECU, MFactory LSD, racing seats/harnesses and roll bar and possibly new wheels. The drive home from work just now will be the last time she'll be running for a couple months. Kinda sad, but I'm stoked about the new build. (wiggle)

Good luck Evan! Not that you'll need it

 

[reut1]

80% of blue book value.....you're cooked!

im gonna do all i can to prevent it! no way I'm shopping for another car!!! ill go to another body shop and have them fool with the numbers some. I'm doing the body work with a friend so it won't cost nearly that much, but we will see! it'll be close if its 80% of the blue book value, depending on which blue book they go by. it'll be close ill tell you that. I'm sure we can get some numbers fudged in there to let me keep the car. honestly i personally would need around 2k to fix it up with a friend. get a used door, pull out the quarter panel with a stud welder, then use body filler and such then bring it to another friend for paint. but we will see . i know i won't find another p5 as good as this one and definitely not for the amount of money insurance would probably give me.

 

[D-rock240]

im gonna do all i can to prevent it! no way I'm shopping for another car!!! ill go to another body shop and have them fool with the numbers some. I'm doing the body work with a friend so it won't cost nearly that much, but we will see! it'll be close if its 80% of the blue book value, depending on which blue book they go by.

There's multiple blue books? That's news to me

 

[Josue6WGN]

So now i gotta go to the insurance and have an appraiser look at it.

Insurance adjusters usually write estimates way WAY lower than body shops, sucks for me and my paycheck. lol

 

[ZoomZoom03]

Filled a hole that somehow appeared in the bottom of my car with foam sealant and then sprayed some rubberized undercoating on top to help keep out any water. Also the car sounds like a go kart now with a blown exhaust gasket, anyone know of a quick cheap fix. I can find very few muffler shops down here and they all want $75+ to chop out the rusted flange and replace it instead of just replacing gasket. For that cost I would rather just chop out both rusted flanges, eliminate the cat and just run a straight pipe for this section.

 

[mexicansoljah81]

does anyone know if the carpet for a sedan will fit in the protege5? i would like to replace mine this winter when the interiors out but cannot find a protege5 specific one.

Looking for same thing. I think i am just going to place the old one back in and place some new floor mats.

 

[mexicansoljah81]

Protege5 on Rx8 rims

 

[CheeseHelmet]

Put on my (big mud) winter tires

Because they fill out the wheel arch so much I noticed that the back of my car sits a bit lower than the front. Is it normal for our cars to look like there's a dead hooker in the trunk?

 

[reut1]

Put on my (big mud) winter tires

Because they fill out the wheel arch so much I noticed that the back of my car sits a bit lower than the front. Is it normal for our cars to look like there's a dead hooker in the trunk?

i know mine sure does, especially with my winter set up on

 

[azuelke]

Filled a hole that somehow appeared in the bottom of my car with foam sealant and then sprayed some rubberized undercoating on top to help keep out any water. Also the car sounds like a go kart now with a blown exhaust gasket, anyone know of a quick cheap fix. I can find very few muffler shops down here and they all want $75+ to chop out the rusted flange and replace it instead of just replacing gasket. For that cost I would rather just chop out both rusted flanges, eliminate the cat and just run a straight pipe for this section.

Why not just replace the gasket? You could always use some high temp sealant around the area...

 

[CheeseHelmet]

Why not just replace the gasket? You could always use some high temp sealant around the area...

That's right, most auto stores sell some kind of "exhaust putty" that you can probably use to patch that sort of leak...

 

[ZoomZoom03]

Thanks for the idea about the sealant, I'll give it a try. I would replace the gasket but I know what usually happens when I get near rusted bolts...stripped, snapped, basically never seems to go right.

 

[CTt3P5]

so i went and got the estimate for the damage to my car finally and it came to a god damn $4600! they would want to cut out and replace the quarter panel rather than fix it. So now i gotta go to the insurance and have an appraiser look at it. hopefully i can convince them to not total if they would. Just say "listen, i want to keep the car. give me just a few less than the amount needed to total it and lets go!"

ill throw a new door on the car and leave the quarter panel dented before i get rid of my p5!!

Damn Kyle...wish you luck in getting the numbers massaged so you can get the car fixed and keep it!

That sucks, Kyle... I hope she will live on.

I'm getting ready to pull my JDM KLDE to put in my Milly this weekend. Then my P5 will be sitting in the garage for the rest of the winter while she gets a lightly built KLZE, MegaSquirt ECU, MFactory LSD, racing seats/harnesses and roll bar and possibly new wheels. The drive home from work just now will be the last time she'll be running for a couple months. Kinda sad, but I'm stoked about the new build. (wiggle)

Whoa....I missed this, I need to remember to keep checking your thread.

Protege5 on Rx8 rims

Looks good and one of my top three fav OEM wheels.....now it's time to lower that 4x4.


Picked her up from the bodyshop Friday night....no more hole in the qtr panel! Yesterday I gave her a bath and wax before the upcoming winter season and just snapped this pic in the driveway.