Ooops... I broke it again.
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- 2010 Mazda5 GT
Are you sure you have all you need? 
J/K...You guys up north sure have a rough go with the P5s at this point in their life cycle. Feeling very fortunate mine has been in GA and FL all its 13 years.
Hope the replacement goes smoothly for ya. I've got a set of stock struts and springs in my attic with about 70K on them...shipping these up to you would be a pricey and a pain.
J/K...You guys up north sure have a rough go with the P5s at this point in their life cycle. Feeling very fortunate mine has been in GA and FL all its 13 years.
Hope the replacement goes smoothly for ya. I've got a set of stock struts and springs in my attic with about 70K on them...shipping these up to you would be a pricey and a pain.
Yea... That was after I lifted the car.
It was as slow clunky ride home. I'm lucky I didn't have far to go and it's not the middle of winter.
Here's my parts list so far... I'm gonna go with economy rear hubs because they're easy to replace.
I sure hope my front bearings aren't humming too... I don't want to to them over again.
Are you sure you have all you need?
COOL !!! It's portable too !!
Maybe you can bring it up here of I run into problems.
So things keep breaking...
So I tried to drill it out... I missed by a mile...
The stud was catching on the strut and I couldn't get the knuckle off so I wedged a chisel into make room for my cutoff saw blade.
The speed sensor bolt broke too...
Finally got the thing out...
Looks pretty good here...
But I rusted through the trunk... I'm just gonna stuff an oily rag in there and call it fixed.
So I tried to drill it out... I missed by a mile...
The stud was catching on the strut and I couldn't get the knuckle off so I wedged a chisel into make room for my cutoff saw blade.
The speed sensor bolt broke too...
Finally got the thing out...
Looks pretty good here...
But I rusted through the trunk... I'm just gonna stuff an oily rag in there and call it fixed.
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Jackie chan
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Wow, that looks like alot of fun. I wish I had some rust to play with.
TheSwapnessMonster
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Yikes (eek2)
njintau_fsd
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Jeebus that is one of the worst cases of rust I've ever seen; it pretty much looks like the car had been sitting in water for a week or something. :O
Nope... Just life in the salt belt...
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Same here... I'm leaving all the rust and dirt on it to keep it snug.
katapaltes
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That's the location on my car with the most rust too. But I think your and my definition of "rust" may differ wildly. Let's see how Tapatalk attaches pics...
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It's sad that these cars are such freaking rust buckets. When I see one in a junkyard here in NY, I'm always shocked at how bad the rust is. The whole underside of the car is gone. Other cars of similar vintage (or older) aren't event close. I haven't had any issues with bolts yet, but snapping off screw heads on parts under the car is getting common. Fortunately, my daughter's P5 is a southern PA car that hasn't been subjected to a NY winter yet (hopefully, it never will). It has a couple of spots that have needed attention, but it's pretty clean for a northern car. The first thing I did was clean and treat any spots, then undercoated/rustproofed the entire car. That'll slow it down a bit.
Can someone tell me what in looking at here ???
I think it's called the stopper seat but I didn't get one with my new strut or strut mount ??
Everything was rusted together and I thought it was part of the strut mount.
Do I need to re-use the rusty piece of crap or can I just delete it ???
It's not listed as a part at rock auto.
I think it's called the stopper seat but I didn't get one with my new strut or strut mount ??
Everything was rusted together and I thought it was part of the strut mount.
Do I need to re-use the rusty piece of crap or can I just delete it ???
It's not listed as a part at rock auto.
