Got an early 2002 Protege5 with 199,420ish heh heh... I almost made it to 200!!! Just got sideswiped a couple weeks ago on drivers door and fender so now its totaled! Im keeping her though, still starts and drives like a champ and it wont get a salvage title since its over 7yrs old (never knew that was a thing).
Also about to buy an 2002 ES with 189,xxx for $800. Thing runs like piss, has a flashing cel with a cyl2 misfire and some fuel trim codes along with a VTCS code. Didnt feel like it was misfiring while driving it lightly which leads me to think its got a vacuum leak. Gonna pull spark plug 2 when i go back to buy it and see if the tip is smashed in from the infamous vtcs screws. Mostly buying the car for body parts and the trans so i dont really care about the engine at this point, although it'll be fun to pull apart and see whats wrong.