Considering buying a Festiva-If I know there is product support

[outlander]

Hi everyone, I'm new here. I'm looking at buying a 93 festiva however the fuel gauge does not work and only reads to halfway. After some searching on this forum the problem looks to be the fuel sending unit. I then tried to find a new fuel sending unit on the internet and it looks like they are no longer made.

This issue of product support (understandable for an old car) is making me lean towards buying a metro or a tercel instead. Can anyone help? I really don't want to have to buy 2nd hand sender units and swap them out every year.

[Charlie1717]

Hi everyone, I'm new here. I'm looking at buying a 93 festiva however the fuel gauge does not work and only reads to halfway. After some searching on this forum the problem looks to be the fuel sending unit. I then tried to find a new fuel sending unit on the internet and it looks like they are no longer made.

This issue of product support (understandable for an old car) is making me lean towards buying a metro or a tercel instead. Can anyone help? I really don't want to have to buy 2nd hand sender units and swap them out every year.

I don't have one but someone will be able to help you. Check Rockauto.com They have lots of new parts for us if your local autozone/advanced/napa doesn't. Parts are not to hard to come by. I've never had an issue. If the body is in decent shape and its running get it!
Geo's are nice too but check for rust- they are prone to rusting pretty badly.


Don't be scared of the Festiva you won't have any problems finding parts. Especially when you will rarely need them!


By the way welcome to the forum! What are the specs on the car- year,miles,cost?

[Larry Hampton]

The 2-door Aspire tank is supposed to be a direct swap, leads me to believe the sending unit would work.

[outlander]

Its a silver 93 5 speed , 140,000 miles and $1900.

[IdealSociety]

That is the only part i have not found brand new for my festiva. I guarantee you will have worse availability on parts for the tercel than the geo or festiva (the geo was produced longer than the other two) but honestly with the festiva having such rediculous parts interchange between other vehicles its not even a worry. Plus anything you cant find brand new you can get at almost any local JY since the festiva was mass produced, out of 20 cars my local tiny JY has 3 are festivas hehe.

rockauto.com or a skilled employee at any local auto parts store should be able to get you almost anything you could ever need for a festiva, i work at an advance auto parts and it amazes me what i can get for extremely obscure cars (try a drop in K&N airfilter for a 72 Renault Motorhome for example) when i sit down and cross my numbers over to everything available and call my manufacturers directly.

Many parts for a festiva interchanged with other Mazda's, armed with this knowledge you can march forth and create product support of your own that most other compact cars do not have.

Even so these cars are not genuinely old, it is even still made in the middle-east and since it was produced here for so long as the festiva and then aspire one would have to be looking under rocks to not find parts to keep them running properly.

Give the festiva a shot, get the sending unit from a local JY (they were not a common issue, of all my festivas and probably 500k+ miles i've logged on them together i've only had one sending unit that was bad and it was from sitting with a tank full of sand and water in it). As long as the one you pull in the JY is clean you'll likely never replace it again unless someone is pouring stuff in your tank (should take all of 5 minutes, the seat bottom flips forward and you pull 4 screws to get access to the sending unit. then its like what, 8 more to get it out i think)

Then get in and enjoy the product support

[Charlie1717]

Its a silver 93 5 speed , 140,000 miles and $1900.

Seems a bit pricey to me but depends on the condition of it. How is the body? For 1900 it ought to be almost perfect in my opinion. But it is an efi manual with fairly lowish miles.

[Safety Guy]

Check corrosion on the brake lines too. If rust is minimal surface type, then it may be worth it if all else checks out and it runs strong.

Karl

[outlander]

Rock auto was the first place I checked and they dont have them. I used to have a mk1 supercharged mr2 and sold it due to some parts are no longer made.

[FestYboy]

man i've been looking for a MK1 MR supercharged for YEARS!!!! why (really) did you get rid of it!?

[Occhty]

Even if you can't find a new sending unit. Ah.... Used ones are very easy to come by. And you can change one out in like 5 min, you don't have to pull the tank out to do the job. I don't know....can you do that with a geo???

[link5186]

All the product support you'll ever need is right here!

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[bobbyspider]

Hi everyone, I'm new here. I'm looking at buying a 93 festiva however the fuel gauge does not work and only reads to halfway. After some searching on this forum the problem looks to be the fuel sending unit. I then tried to find a new fuel sending unit on the internet and it looks like they are no longer made.

This issue of product support (understandable for an old car) is making me lean towards buying a metro or a tercel instead. Can anyone help? I really don't want to have to buy 2nd hand sender units and swap them out every year.

Mine only works till half tank too then hits the e but I just fill out when my trip hits 260 and I'm fine. I ran out of gas a few times to learn this num . I had a97 tercel for years and really liked it but now that I have a festy I'll never go back. There is way less space in a tercel beleive it or not and they are not true dohc they only have one cam gear. The only swap motors are the 4efte and they are only from japan and have a boo 130 hp unless you want to do a 4age and good luck with that (super hard) the festy has way more domestic options got upgrade thanthe tercel will ever have and the tercel forum is way les inviting of noobs (they can be snooty jerks) get the festy its a win win and the people here help and will even come to the rescue when needed