christi88gxl

Got the Mazda 3 off the lot yesterday. The bad thing was, was that it rained after we finalized the papers and crap.

Here's the few pictures that we took yesterday... Hopefully it doesn't rain later on today so I can get better pictures.

It's not a bad car. Pretty quick, but I haven't taken it up to high rpms or anything yet, since it's still very new car. I like it anyway.

http://zukin.f0e.net/Mazda3/051005/DSCN0482.JPG < outside of car
http://zukin.f0e.net/Mazda3/051005/DSCN0483.JPG < front view
http://zukin.f0e.net/Mazda3/051005/DSCN0484.JPG < sitting in car
http://zukin.f0e.net/Mazda3/051005/DSCN0487.JPG < Mileage. woohoo!
http://zukin.f0e.net/Mazda3/051005/DSCN0488.JPG < and her first day out to get some lunch. Steak and Shake baby! And my dad in the picture.

Heh. Yeah. I should get more pictures soon.

M3

not that bad the car is awesome lady.

miles

enjoy it

Bluehatch32

Oh, the got you with those stupid designer line sticker things they put on the cars. Last time one of my cars had a pair of those it started peeling off the paint near the front!! Oh well. You got a great car. Mine had been sitting in the show room. Only time it had been driven was when they brought it from the factory. 3 MILES ON IT BABAY!!!! It was so cool.

M3

what stupid stickers i dont see them

Bluehatch32

Look at the first pic. It's that pair of lines moving from the front of the car all the way back. They make the car look a little nicer sometimes but it's just a way for a dealer to raise the price and it damaged my paint job on my last car.

M3

you mean the door moldings you could take them off

PolishDriver77

yeah, tape seems to hold most of the accesories on our cars together.

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Bluehatch32

How exactly do you take the moldings off? Just in case the next car I get has them I would like to know.

christi88gxl

Hmm, I see what you guys are talking about in the pictures, but I haven't seen it on my car yet. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

M3

well not really you could take them out, almost in every single car.


ok theres is a lot of posts about this basically you culd do it with a blow dryer but just go to search and put moldings.
know what i'll do it for ya heres the link
http://www.protegeclub.com/showthrea...light=moldings
http://www.protegeclub.com/showthrea...light=moldings

he is talking about the moldings that supposlly help you from getting the paint scracht like when you open it to hard and you hit a post most likely the moldings are going to hit it and not the whole door and sometimes it makes your car look better but i think it doesn't

teh_winnar

I love the color (probably because thats the color I have)

micdmac

I think the 'stickers' Bluehatch originally mentioned are also called pinstripes. They go all the way from the hood to the back panel, at the the top of the doors right under the windows. You can see it in christi's first, second, and fifth pictures - it almost looks like a reflection. They used to put them on many older cars, but I guess the dealer put them on in this case. Did they charge you extra for that?

hughes412

You might check out the Highboost turbo kit for the 3. I just saw a post that said they hit 300 whp off just 9psi!

christi88gxl

Yeah... Apparently they already jipped me on it. I think it was already on the car before I bought her. I can always look on the recipt thing I have in the car.. It SHOULD tell me.

Kind of sucks that they can get those stripes at nearly $5, but they up it so damn high - it's such a ripoff. Oh well.

Hughes - I'm not going to turbo her. She's suuppose to and will be a family car.. hehe. I'm hoping to keep her longer than I did on my rx-7s. Maybe later on in life if I can afford the RX-8 I'll turbo the 3