1990 Mazda Protege LX review from North America

I have own this car for more than seven year and the only thing that has gone wrong with my car is the water pump. I had to replace it twice within one year. The car had about 165000 first time. The second time it was because the first time that it was replaced the mechanic left to much tension on the drive belt and that ruined my seals.

I also replace my radiator at about 150000 miles. It was actually good that it got ruined because I replaced it with an aluminum radiator. Other than the part mentioned above the only thing that I have had to do is just maintenance stuff.

This is a very well manufactured car. It is relatively chip in price and gives you good performance for the buck. I have done some modifications to my car and it makes very good horsepower even after 335000 miles. I can still give some of the new car a good run. It is kind of hard to find performance parts for this car. It is not as popular as Honda or, but if you do some research you can find out which car are compatible with your car. That is what I have done. Some of the Mazda cars use similar part as the Protege. The only thing that I don't like about this car is that the gear ratios on the transmisiion are very close. If this car had a transmission with taller gears it would be great.