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It's about that time when my P5 odometer rolls over 60,000 I scheduled a maintenance with the dealer for the 60k service, but I was wondering if anybody has had it and is it worth having? $600 seems awful steep for a check up.... I'm religious about changing my oil and aside from a weird...

I was looking on the forums and I saw a lot of entries on the rear squeaking and it being related to the bushings, but I wasn't sure it it applies with mine since it's my rear passenger that squeaks whenever I make a right hand turn around 30mph. And it sounds like a rotational squeak as...

A month or two ago I recently got my front brake shoes replaced, and they were making some minor squeaks so I knew the had to be broken in. Lately, I've heard some major squeaking coming from when I apply light brake pressure, and especially when I make a turn, or if I'm reversing at a low...

Actually, I know how to remove my stereo because I've done it before. I have the set of removal tools, and I got the right hand side loose, but I think I messed the left hand side up somehow. When I push in the tools on the left side's holes, they sorta sink in all the way into the unit...

Does anybody know the voltage and current going into the stereo? I know there's a 12V line. Basically I'm trying to take the logitech bluetooth headphones for an iPod and integrate it into the stock stereo system so I don't have to even connect a cable. It's similar to the original mod where...

Hey guys, this isn't exactly a P5 related thread. But read this to the end to see how it is P5 related...sorta I've been named a finalist in a motorola competition, and I need votes to win a scholarship for school. If you go to http://promo.motorola.com/motofwrd/us/finalist.html and go down...

I've got a 2002 P5, stock (sadly) with maybe 35k on it. I've been pretty good with maintenance with oil and fluids and what not. So today, I was in traffic, not moving, and the engine just turns itself off. Electrical systems were working fine. But the engine for no reason decided to just...

I got my P5 this past winter and I love it to death. The one thing though is that it's an automatic with the manumatic shifter. I told my friend that I wanted to add a turbocharger to it eventually but he warned me that the transmission may not hold up under the increased power from the...

I've googled this and asked other people before, but I could never get a straight answer on this. Is back pressure necessary in an engine? More over, what if I forcefully removed the exaust from the engine with say a vaccum or something like that?

Running late for class I pulled my backpack out of my passenger seat and it hit the radio. Now the mounting on the back of the FM button that attaches to the stereo deck is damaged. Is there a way for me to some how to get a replacement FM button?

Right now I've managed to hook up an aux input to my HU but there's a problem. I'm getting no bass signals what so ever. It just seems like half the audio is cut off. is audio typically transmitted through the left or right channel or is it more of a grounding problem? the rest of the unit...

After deciding that I'm simply too cheap/poor to buy the ice link or pie aux in adaptors for my car, I think I might just go and try to mod the stock stereo. I was going to try following these instructions http://mymazda3.patricktam.net/project_aux_input.asp I'm just wondering if the Mazda3's...

I decided to take the plunge and I bought a 2002 Mazda Protege 5. My god I love this car. But now I've got another dillema. Should I even consider getting an extended warantee? It's gonna run me an extra 1400-1700 bucks. The car has a little over 20,000 miles on it, checks out on carfax...

I'm just a 19 year old college kid with a small budget and I came across a Protege5 that is absolutely spectacular. It drives like a dream and is a HUGE improvement over the 1992 ford escort with 80hp that I've been driving. What I'm looking at now is a 2002 protege5 with 20,300 miles on the...