Recent content by qualityrockola

Here's the scoop: http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123631485

pinging sounds like a soup can with a pebble bouncing around in it. I think, being that you are in canada, you should not have any detonation problems with 87 octane and long reach plugs. The only people that are going to have any problems are folks like me who live in hot climates. I went...

The GTO is a good car, if you get the 6 speed you will probably get better mileage than your auto P5. I wanted to get one when my wife wrecked my S10 but the P5 was way cheaper.

$3.14 today for 87 octane at the truck stop here, oh "travel plaza" i guess is the PC term :).

I got a deep ding below my passenger door handle a couple weeks ago and several other smaller dings in recent weeks as well. I dont know whats wrong with people. Its getting to the point where every time I drive my car there is a new mark on it.

Two of the three vehicles with manual trans that I have owned or own, have used ATF for trans oil. Just depends on the car, both vehicles were actually from the '80s too so its not a new phenomenon. :)

nah, we probably have the same coolant. Maybe mine just needs some more. I bought my pro5 last year "mazda certified used" so I assume that they checked the coolant charge and it is as good as it can be, but who knows. I dont have a garage or carport either so the sun just bakes the interior...

But how often does it get over 90 degrees in MD? 90 degrees is when my AC starts losing its effectiveness.

Mine shuts off under hard acceleration. It starts blowing warm(er) air. You just need to drive harder. :)

I dont notice it too much actually. It might be my driving style though. I tend to keep the engine pretty high up in the RPMs a lot of the time, probably around 3000 unless Im cruising on a long stretch of road. Like someone mentioned earlier, the AC compressor gets shut off when you really...

The coil packs are the two little black boxes that sit directly on top of your valvecover, right on the tip top very middle of your engine. They each sit directly over a spark plug. Each have one rubbery wire (the spark plug wire) coming out of them and have a couple regular wires plugging into...

Looks like my ICW rims. $100 a wheel ftw.

Unless you told them who you are, send the warranty card in and then call them back after they receive it.

Another set of coils and/or wires gone bad in the 50,000 to 60,000 mile range. Mine werent bad yet but I replaced mine anyway a couple weeks ago because I was in that range.

sucks. I have a much less severe version of that on my p5, just rashed up really. someone let a shopping cart loose into my headlight/bumper cover the other day...just scuffed and it rubbed out pretty easy but damn. People are really out to destroy our cars. I think theyre jealous.