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Coming home from work last night I let off the gas for a corner and felt the car buck a little. I thought my EGR valve might be stuck open again. Made it home and it stalled in the driveway. Started it back up and idle was pretty low and I could hear a very faint banging sound from the firewall...

My mom picked up her brand new CX-5 at the dealer yesterday and she mentioned to the sales guy that her son (me) wants a 3 but won't buy it because of the way the infotainment unit sits on top of the dash. He told her that a lot of people have complained about it so the 2017 will have an in-dash...

Hey folks, My car is a manual so I always use the parking brake. Twice in the past few weeks I set the parking brake when I went into work and when I came out at night the brakes wouldn't release. The handle felt "dead" with no tension on it but it operated smoothly so the problem must be with...

Hey All, Was just driving home and felt the car bucking very slightly around 40 MPH. I came to a stop sign and the engine died when I slowed down to around 10 MPH. It turned over fine when I re-started it but took about 3-4 seconds to actually start and now it idles VERY rough and skippy around...

The Protege5 was smelling like gas so I thought my fuel pump housing was leaking again but it turned out that the bottom of the tank was "sweating" gas through some pinholes near the drivers side control arm. It was a tiny leak but it was dripping onto the shield and creating a lot of surface...

I replaced the fuel pump housing a few years back but now the bottom of the tank is rusted and leaking. Just wondering how sucky of a job it is. I'm mechanically inclined and have successfully replaced the timing belt, struts, brakes, and motor mounts. Any particular things to look out for...

My gas tank appears to be leaking. I checked the top of the tank around the fuel pump and I got under the car and looked around the sides of the tank but it's all dry. The only wet spots are around the little louver slits in the shield thing under the tank so I suspect the tank has a small leak...

I'm planning to replace the stock shocks and struts on my 03 Protege5 myself and I'm okay with buying a spring compressor if I can find one that's decent quality and reasonably priced. Does anyone have experience with the Harbor Freight model or have recommendations for another model? Thanks in...

My 03 Protege5 with 130K miles is still running the original springs, shocks and struts. They seem fine to me but logic says they HAVE to be worn and there's a nagging voice in my head to replace them. I poked around on here and read that the GR2's are a good equal replacement. I guess I'm just...

I pulled off the factory rack and installed a Yakima system back in 2003. The factory setup has been in a box in the garage ever since. I also have Thule Fat Mouth clamps and short Thule bars that mount to the factory load bars so you can use Thule carriers that require a square bar. I'm...

I've had an intermittent ABS and Brake System light on the dash for the past few weeks. I busted out the manual and followed the instructions to jumper the TBS to ground and I got DTC codes 14 and 48 which indicates the left rear ABS wheel sensor is not reading correctly. I just ripped out half...

Just buttoning up a timing belt installation and noticed that the motor mount looks like it separated but I'm not sure how it's supposed to look. If it's broken is there a certain brand or model I should look for. I seem to remember folks on here complaining about stock motor mounts being poor...

So there's been a clunk/clink when driving over potholes lately. Not bad enough to feel but I can hear it. At first I thought was my breaker bar rolling around in the hatch. When the car is parked I can rock it side to side and get the same noise. I crawled under there today and 3 of the...

So, my '03 has been smelling like gas the past few days, both in and outside the car. I did some poking around and I found fuel running down the front edge of the tank. At first I thought that it was the seam in the tank but the fuel was actually leaking out where the fuel pump body, gasket, and...

I have an '03 with ABS brakes and I'm doing rotors and pads for the first time at 70,000 miles and I plan to bleed the brakes with a Mity Vac. The brakes feel fine but I just feel like they should be bled as part of routine maintenance...but I also don't want to open a can of worms. 1) Do I...

Does anyone know if gravity bleeding the brakes works on the P5? I asked a mechanic buddy his opinion on the Speedbleeders and he told me that he uses the gravity bleeding method. I had never heard of it but I'm willing to try it if it works.

I just changed jobs and surrendered my company vehicle (06 Dodge Dakota) so I'm back driving the P5 after a year and a half of rarely driving it. The Dakota had an aux-input so I bought the Creative Zen Vision M and the player lived on the bench seat under the armrest. It was out of sight and I...

My Protege 5 is 3 years old and has almost 53,000 miles on it so it's going to be needing work soon and I'm trying to find a good service manual. Haynes and Chilton don't seem to offer anything but I remember the dealer service manual in .pdf floating around on here for a while. Does anyone...

Hey guys, I know it's been discussed a million times but I just don't have the time to search through all the posts. I just discovered a bubble on one of the sidewalls on my stock Dunlops and the tires have 33K on them so I think I'm just going to replace all four. I want to make sure that I can...

Will replacing the factory six disc in my P5 with an aftermarket head unit kill any features like the chime when your lights are on or your door is open? The factory unit has been skipping so I'm thinking about getting the pocket and a new single din unit and I'm just weighing the pros and...