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But in keeping with the Protege-love theme today on my way to work I got to take advantage of the Protege's "gotta find a corner get me to a corner wheres the corner gotta find a corner" suspension at a Land Rovers expense. On the whole commute down a pretty busy 4 lane road a guy in a Land Rover kept cutting me off trying to be the fastest car out there. Well I knew eventually the road would clear up and when it did I shifted into 4th gear and hit a corner at 85MPH and left him trying to keep his car from flipping.
So there is my "love my Protege" story of the day.
boohoowahwah boohoowahwah
Any suggestions are welcome. I'll pull it all out and re-do tomorrow night unless there's a better suggestion. I may see if there is a mounting spacer I can buy to install these as undermounts to perfectly fit the factory holes.
Ron B.
Also connect the rear speaker to the front set of wires to make sure it's not a problem in your wiring. Or use a multimeter to make sure enough power is being supplied. Make sure your multimeter has sufficient range, or you'll fry its fuse.
You might've already tried this, but adjust your fade setting to make sure it's balanced or slightly biased to the rear.
You could also check the speaker's internal wiring to the bass cone to make sure it's not damaged. I don't think the tweeter being pressed down should affect it much (other than the resonance factor) since it's not mounted directly to the woofer.
I have adjusted the bass to full and even adjusted the fade to full rear. No difference. I should have said I tried that before. It is odd. I suppose I could have a defective pair of speakers but I'm assuming that's a long shot. The only problem I see with mounting the speakers from below as the box said is this. On the 02 model (and perhaps others) when the hole for the speakers was made at the factory, a small lip about 1/8" is bent down into the trunk. The factory then mounts the speakers into the deck from above so they mount flush with the top of the steel panel. If you mount from below, it is difficult to mount them flush because you're really talking about mounting flush to this 1/8" lip that travels the circumference of the oval. Maybe that's why Crutchfield lists only the Bazooka 6x9 speakers as direct fits, because they mount from above. To go through grinding this lip off just to mount new speakers seems really stupid. There may be a mounting spacer that I need. I'm going to look into this but it sure seems it should not be this hard.
Before bed last night, I did come up with something I'll test tonight. When I said earlier there was clearance between the tweeters and the factory grill in the deck cover, that's looking down through the rear window then through the factory grills and seeing or believing I was seeing clearance. So, maybe I am mistaken about the clearance. I will take the deck cover off to make sure nothing is hitting and fire the stereo up after I have it off. If the bass appears, that's my problem. Since I threw away the new grills, it would be a bigger problem!
Ron B.
I was considering signing up for a service that allows me to read the full TSB including the instructions for repair. It's about $26 a year.
Random thought.
maltb--Can you use GL5 in the manual transmission in a 2001 ES 2.0L? I read somewhere that GL5 has sulphur in it and sulphur eats brass synchros. Does Mazda have a special sulphur-free GL5? Is synthetic GL5 OK?
'duh'
http://www.edmunds.com/products/maintguide/index.html
and found a whopping 2 TSBs on my 2001 Protege. This compares to 16 on a 1994 Protege and 61 on my 1998 Jeep Cherokee. That is about 2 per year on the Proteges and over 15 per year on the Cherokee. If I were you, I would use the free service unless you ran into problems. However, it would probably be worthwhile for me to get it considering my Cherokee. Can you provide me that information?
Bogg: I did notice the whole black plastic thing under the Jetta's hood. I went to give someone a jumpstart once, and didn't know how to get the battery cover thingie off. God forbid, my car ever dies, because I will be screwed. And not to talk about another car, but what kinda problems did you have with your Jetta?
It depends on the TSB whether or not they will fix it after the warranty period. I had an Integra that had a TSB for the ignitor/distributor. Acura would fix that for free up to 100K miles. That's WAY out of warranty. They ended up "fixing" it 3 times. Toyota also had TSBs on their V6 truck engines for faulty head gaskets. Toyota fixed those for free up to 100K miles also.
I had a couple of things that were fixed under a TSB on my old 97 Saturn SC2 but I never learned about EXACTLY what they did. I get general descriptions and parts lists from the dealer but it's pretty hard to get instructions out of them. (chuckle) I didn't learn that they had pulled my transmission to fix a rattle until I was selling the car and gave a dealer printout to the prospective purchaser. It actually was a pretty funny scene. I get to the dealer (she did a check on the car) and there was her dad, mom, brother and the buyer sitting in the cashiers lobby grilling the service manager about each of the different things that were done to the car by me and the previous owner. The guy gave me a dirty look when I walked in.
Anyway. I suppose I'll hold off on the service until I see a few more TSB's on my car. How much is a service manual for a P5 anyway?
I too have noticed that the Pro loses heat rapidly, but so do every other car that I've used in the winter. That list includes: a Mazda MPV, a '91 Jetta, an old Audi (not sure what make it was...mid 90's), and a 2000 Volvo C70. My point is that I don't think the Pro is losing heat any faster than any other car...when it's this cold, it's just thermodynamics...heat will move from hot to cold, and rapidly in this case.
"As he finished his sentence, he turned to find the man standing right behind him, so he added, and this gentleman kindly offered to buy the other half."
Huh?
Meade
#1: 1000 miles - Automatic Shift cable would catch when cold, so I would have to wait until it warmed up to shift out of Park. It took 3 tries to fix this.
#2: 6000 miles - Water pump developed a slow leak. They had to remove the engine to replace the water pump. It took most of the day.
#3: 6500 miles - Under moderate to hard acceleration, engine would go into "limp mode." It took them 4 tries to fix this one. They only allowed me a rental after the third try. The problem ended up being one of the ECUs, but not the one that was supposed to perform that function. I found it scary on city traffic to suddenly loose engine power.
#4: 12,000 miles - radiator developed leak.
There were a few other minor electrical problems, but not worth mentioning. On top of these things, we found the seats uncomfortable on long trips, it took Premium gas, and the car payment was $459 per month. This is not say there weren't things we liked. The engine, when it wasn't limping, was great and it was very smooth on the highway, but we were concerned about the long term reliability of that particular car. We were lucky that it held its value as well as it did. We were able to trade it in for more than we owed, and still get $100 over invoice on the Protege.
Then the quick thinking punchline at the end...
Has anyone else noticed that the cloth on the doors seems to attract weird stains? I have a few blemishes and not sure how they got there and can't seem to get them out.
Plus we don't care. We won hockey and that's all that matters to us. Oh yeah, and that gold in figure skating.
No weird stains on my doors.
Oh well, maybe it happened when I was having it washed. I can't think of anything I have done that would cause that.
I would say that the USA greatly underachieved in the medal standings. You should have won way more considering how much funding and representation you had. It is entirely relevant despite what you say.
I'll agree with you on the weather part though...
But I think our beer more than makes up for that....
For you.....
Sad news about beer. You have to hope that this study is flawed, but the
evidence seems irrefutable. Yesterday, scientists for Health Canada
suggested that the results of a recent analysis revealed the presence of
female hormones in beer, and suggested that men should take a look at
their beer consumption. The theory is that drinking beer makes men turn
into women.
To test the theory, 100 men were each fed 6 pints of beer within a
one-hour period. It was then observed that 100% of the men gained weight,
talked excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn't
drive, failed to think rationally, argued over nothing, had to sit down
while urinating, couldn't perform sexually, and refused to apologize when
wrong.
No further testing is planned.
I've heard all about the 93 Civics ... but what about those 94's? The addition of 4-wheel disc brakes, ABS, and Vtec made a great car even better
We may have good funding here but there isn't alot of interest in the Winter Games here unless it's figure skating. For some reason, we Americans are fixated on the summer sports such as basketball, baseball, and track. I was actually surprised with the American performance. Usually, we are even further down on the Winter Olympic totem pole.
Yes, I suppose the USA would concentrate more on the summer games. To be frank, although Canadian's love sports and athletics, we really, truly only care about hockey. It defines and rallies our country like nothing else. Americans have wars. Canadians have hockey. It is our war...
Nobody here would have really cared a damn had we not won any other medals other than the ice hockey. It really was all that mattered....
P.S.- Yes, Labatt's Blue does taste like fermented moose urine. It's not real Canadian Beer....
Frankly, I didn't. And the first time I poped the hood to check the oil...it was a surprise when it didn't look like the Honda engine bay I was use to. LOL! I was expecting orange; it's yellow. I couldn't find the dipstick. Mazda hides it on the left rear side of the engine. <<<<<<<
From where I bought my ES, the saleman was explaining where everything was under the hood....I told him I don't need to know.
His reply:
We are supposed to INFORM every customer where the oil,tranny dipsticks are and where each fluid container is. THAT IS A REQUIREMENT.
What I thought was that MNAO requires that.
No?
Maltb?
Paul: If you could see my white ES right now covered in frozen gray slush, you would definitely reconsider purchasing white. NOT the color for northern climates! Very nice when clean, though
From what I have read the new Civic Si is leaps and bounds ahead of the previous Si in suspension aspects. But the engine is 1.0 second slower to 60 than the previous 1.6L but it does have a more linear power band. I would definitely miss that rush of power that you used to have with the old Si though.
As for the stains, if you think the stains "came" about during that kind of athletic event then you definitely don't know who my teammate is (hope he doesn't read this). And besides, if that kind of event were going to be held in a car it would be the Lexus with it's heated 8 way power seats
chikoo: The dealer went over it briefly to show us where everything was but he had other customers so we told him we could figure the rest out by ourselves. Just recently, for the first time since the day I bought the car, I popped the hood to make sure the oil cap was put back on after an oil change and to make sure that it wasn't overfilled. To me everything seemed pretty easy to find and all labels were clear.
Speedypt might not have internet access this week...on vacation, back on the 10th.
I'm sure he appreciates everyone's birthday greetings in absentia, however.
Yes, i would miss that rush of the older Si engine once the rev band hits high enough and you get in that optimal area. Used to love that. With the WRX you get it at about 3,200rpm once the turbo starts spooling up. By 4,000 the skin on my face makes me look years younger with all that torque slamming my head back into the seat. I find the 2000 PRo with the 1.8L gets that extra umph like the old Si at around 4,200rpm all the way through till about 6,000rpm. The 2.0L is out of breath shortly after 4,500rpm or so.
Yes, the Lexus and the 8 "position" adjustable and heated seats is definately the way to go there. As for events, that just might be the only other thing than hockey that we Canadians excel at..... Huge grin.
Dinu
PLEASE no more 93 Civic discussions. I don't wanna write all that's gone wrong with it again.
(By the way, that was in 1985. I'd love to see how much it would cost today -- but of course, my luck held as usual -- the very next year, they changed the engine design and one major change was the location of the water pump -- no more engine removals.)
Meade
several thousand posts ago..when i was strictly an inactive participant, i think you mentioned you have a Cuban music CD that was burned by a few locals. My wife and i were in Cayo Coco for 2 weeks in early December. Loved the music while we were there, but have never managed to find a CD or tape that we enjoy. Any chance your offer to burn a copy still holds. I'd be willing to trade great jokes if that helps...
Anyway, let me know and maybe we can arrange a deal. I'd burn you some music too but i don't have a CD writer...
;-)
Meade