Mazda Protege 1.8L with Mitsubishi Alternator 2000, Alternator by TYC®. Current: 80 Amp. Yamaha audiogram 6 asio driver. With 4 Groove Serpentine Pulley. The alternator is one of the parts you want to function properly, otherwise all the comforts given by the. Slotege Reviewed — Great acceleration, braking is okay, handling is amazing. Build quality is pretty good except the weak spots in the body where it tends to rust. Fortunately this protege has had very little rust poke out. I personally like the look of my compact 4-door family car and all the mods compliment it a lot. Gas mileage with the v6 motor that is in it now is around 30mpg highway and 24mpg city. Regular maintenance and doing the work myself saves on cost. The car is just an overall blast to drive anytime and anywhere. Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.). Clark Kent Bought A Kryptonite — The 2000 Mazda Protege' tan was about as boring a car can get. I bought it brand new with 5 speed manual transmission. Video bayi lucu banget. ![]() My personality and lifestyle at the time was very conservative and it was probably why I gravitated to this conservative sedan. Probably the only daring thing I did in choosing it was opt for the tan interior. I would say like me my choice of car in this point of my life was severely lacking in personality. I used it purely for commute to work and on weekends slapped a bike rack on the back and rode my mountain bike more. I was enmeshed in the daily grind just like everyone else. All trips were only around Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Germantown, MD. Vertical line divider word. I did not venture much out. I was a homebody and a nobody, kinda like the Protege. All was fine in surburbia. Then tragedy struck me and it centered around the Protege. Nobody got hurt but me. Eventually I moved away from Montgomery County. Also, I must mention in my opinion the Protege was not built to last. Little things started falling apart on the vehicle like rod bar on the wheel/axle and things under the hood started to prematurely corrode and wear out. I even took it to a prominent Mazda dealership for an oil change and they forgot to replace the cap and oil got on everything under the hood. As opposed to past vehicles, the Protege was not fun to drive and manual transmission in the thicket of I270 traffic made it a chore. This vehicle also for some reason made me sad so I sold the pity for a pittance. Primary Use: Commuting to work. Highly Recommend This Vehicle!!!!! — This car is bloody amazing. I bought it for $1200, with 4 snows on steels. When i bought it, it had 299,987 kms, and that was in august 2010. Now, january 2011, its got 312,848 and still runnin like a champ. Its my first standard and i pretty much learned how to drive it myself. A few hiccups; new plugs and wires due to a cylinder misfire, but really other than that, it needed a lightbulb over the licence plate to pass ontario saftey regulations. Primary Use: Commuting to work.
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