Modern Ford Forum

The 93 to 97 Ford Probe GT 5-Speed is one great automobile. They are however and always have been expensive to maintain. This is complicated by the fact that the change to OBD-2 diagnostic ports in 1996 eliminated easy diagnostics of things like Oxygen Sensors or any programmable tuning so far as I've discovered.

My 95 GT is my second. I had a dark blue 94 GT for six years. Wrecked it. Swore I'd never get such a high maintenance POS again. Every repair, went the six-year running-joke, was $1,200. Went through a couple of beater Hyundias (lots of fun actually until they became terminally ill) And my wife said, "I want another Probe. We finally settled on this one.

Thank God all of the replacement stuff these things need are available now from the usual autoparts houses (Autozone seems to be the best)at prices that are eminently more affordable than when I was driving the 94 (Ya gotta go to da dealer for dat, its $1,200.)

The down side is that Ford also stocks no parts for the cars or even admits the Probe has a Ford Logo on it. Everyone sez go to Mazda (626 V6)
But I've had even less luck with them.

Now here is the big problem, Anything made of plastic on the exterior of the car has become brittle with age. My wife ran it through a brushless pressure washer car wash and blew the drivers door bottom to bits. I cannot find any replacements.

Does anybody know a source for all things Probe? I have technical questions as well and found the MGE forum a diamond mine of information from knowledgable members and a source for all those things my MGB-GT needs.


Dave

Ya have My sympathy Dave! I don't know about any other manufacturers but Ford has done this to EVERYTHING

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