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Since I finally produced some decent photos of my car, I proudly present: (Image heavy)
My 1999 Mazda 626 GW CE 2.0 DITD
Soo where to start?
Well, my grandfather bought this car new in August 1999 with the following specs:
1998 ccm Turbo-Diesel
90 metric HP (66 kW) @ 4000 rpm
220 Nm @ 1800 - 2600 rpm
5 speed stick shift gear box
about 170 kph top speed
about 13 sec 0-100 kph
My grandfather died in 2002 and my mother got it, which means I grew up on the back seat of that car.
2011 it did not pass the §57a check (basically Austria's MOT test) due to rust (known problem on Mazdas).
In those 12 years it did 176 962 kilometres without any problem.
In january 2014 I got my driving license and I needed a car. I thought I'd give our old, rusty Mazda a go and began to repair it. Note that the car was standing around without starting the engine once for 2.5 years.
Despite an empty battery, it started without any problem. So I spent my summer 2014 repairing it and making it ready for MOT/§57a. Fortunately, I have a good friend who helped me a lot with this. Without him my Mazda would still not be ready.
Some things we did:
Checking the suspension and exchanging the broken parts
Exchanging brake discs, brake pads, brake fluid
Oil Change
Timing belt change
Things I let the local workshop do:
Rust repair
New paintjob over the rust repaired parts
I know, this sounds like work for one week, but there were many, many unneccessary and unfortunate delays, so it took until January 2015 to finally get my 626 back on the streets.
(Yeah, I know, I covered the license plates like a boss, but I was too lazy to load the pictures to my computer, so I used Pixlr to cover the plates up with some supahcool stickers )
In our Garage
The friend's Audi. He once changed hhis brake pads in our garage.
Rust on the rear wheel arches. Not beautiful, but the only real problem that most Mazdas have.
We demounted the oil panonce to check it for rust. Picture of the engine from below
In our Garage. At this point there were still many things to do, including the timing belt change.
Finally, everything had been repaired and my loved Mazda passed MOT. Note that the rear wheel arches and the exterior mirrors have no paint on them.
Finally painted. Good job, Lucky Car vienna!
Most beautiful engine bay evaaarrr!!!
May 2015: Still on winter tyres with steel rims.
June 2015: Finally bought Summer tyres with original Mazda 'Radius 3' alloys
Pano of the huge interior. I mean seriously. It is huge and very variable. I love it.
Last week I bought a new radio for two reasons:
1. I lost the unlock code of the old radio
2. I wanted AUX and USB.
The new radio is some kind of compromise between feautres (AUX, USB) and design (I wanted something that fits my generic 90s interior, nothing that shoots lazars and so on)
So here we go with the final pictures. I know, there are only few people who actually like this kind of car, but the fact that I grew up with it teached me to love the extreme reliability and simplistic design of older japanese cars. Cheers
Edit: At the moment it has 191.5 k km
My 1999 Mazda 626 GW CE 2.0 DITD
Soo where to start?
Well, my grandfather bought this car new in August 1999 with the following specs:
1998 ccm Turbo-Diesel
90 metric HP (66 kW) @ 4000 rpm
220 Nm @ 1800 - 2600 rpm
5 speed stick shift gear box
about 170 kph top speed
about 13 sec 0-100 kph
My grandfather died in 2002 and my mother got it, which means I grew up on the back seat of that car.
2011 it did not pass the §57a check (basically Austria's MOT test) due to rust (known problem on Mazdas).
In those 12 years it did 176 962 kilometres without any problem.
In january 2014 I got my driving license and I needed a car. I thought I'd give our old, rusty Mazda a go and began to repair it. Note that the car was standing around without starting the engine once for 2.5 years.
Despite an empty battery, it started without any problem. So I spent my summer 2014 repairing it and making it ready for MOT/§57a. Fortunately, I have a good friend who helped me a lot with this. Without him my Mazda would still not be ready.
Some things we did:
Checking the suspension and exchanging the broken parts
Exchanging brake discs, brake pads, brake fluid
Oil Change
Timing belt change
Things I let the local workshop do:
Rust repair
New paintjob over the rust repaired parts
I know, this sounds like work for one week, but there were many, many unneccessary and unfortunate delays, so it took until January 2015 to finally get my 626 back on the streets.
(Yeah, I know, I covered the license plates like a boss, but I was too lazy to load the pictures to my computer, so I used Pixlr to cover the plates up with some supahcool stickers )
In our Garage
The friend's Audi. He once changed hhis brake pads in our garage.
Rust on the rear wheel arches. Not beautiful, but the only real problem that most Mazdas have.
We demounted the oil panonce to check it for rust. Picture of the engine from below
In our Garage. At this point there were still many things to do, including the timing belt change.
Finally, everything had been repaired and my loved Mazda passed MOT. Note that the rear wheel arches and the exterior mirrors have no paint on them.
Finally painted. Good job, Lucky Car vienna!
Most beautiful engine bay evaaarrr!!!
May 2015: Still on winter tyres with steel rims.
June 2015: Finally bought Summer tyres with original Mazda 'Radius 3' alloys
Pano of the huge interior. I mean seriously. It is huge and very variable. I love it.
Last week I bought a new radio for two reasons:
1. I lost the unlock code of the old radio
2. I wanted AUX and USB.
The new radio is some kind of compromise between feautres (AUX, USB) and design (I wanted something that fits my generic 90s interior, nothing that shoots lazars and so on)
So here we go with the final pictures. I know, there are only few people who actually like this kind of car, but the fact that I grew up with it teached me to love the extreme reliability and simplistic design of older japanese cars. Cheers
Edit: At the moment it has 191.5 k km
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