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- Mazda Protege Titanium 03.5
I don't know what the hell kind of episode my protege had yesterday but it was weird...................I'm clueless on this one
Yesterday I accidently left my lights on for 30-45 minutes before getting back out to the car to leave class. I go to crank the car and it is dead. My stock battery sucks so the car still had power to all the electronics but not enough amps for it to turn over. It's raining hard outside and I'm packed between cars in the lot and constant traffic runs where I back into, so I had a buddy pick me up. I return to the car later in the afternoon and two cars are parked right beside me again, so I can't jump it off.
We decide to roll start the car and it instantly cranks up. I let the car idle a few minutes and decide to take it for a quick trip around campus to charge the battery back up. About a hundred yards into the trip the car starts bucking hard like crazy and the throttle has no effect on rpms. It was like fuel cut + I just blew off a coupling feeling. All of a sudden the car won't idle at all, starts misfiring like crazy, I get a check engine light and have to floor the throttle just to keep it from dying on me. Assuming the battery being low was somehow the problem I throttled an idle for a few minutes just to see if that was the problem.
The car returns to idle fine after a short period of time but as soon as I start driving again, it goes crazy. At this time the car will crank up fine on its own so the battery has recharged enough. I inspect the engine and all the couplers and everthing is as it should be.
I manage to drive the car to the building where I work at on campus and reset the pcm. An hour later, I get back to the car, the pcm is reset ,and the car cranks up and idles perfect. I let the car idle for 10 minutes before hopping in and driving home. 10 minutes into the trip everything is perfect. Thinking all is good again, I get on the throttle a little bit to pass a car and as soon as the car gets a little boost it freaks out once again. It was like the fuel cut and a blown off coupling feeling I had before. The CEL comes on right after it starts bucking, and the car returns to driving like utter s*** again. I manage to get the car home amazingly, and down a few beers to forget about it.
I head to class today and the car cranks up and runs perfectly just as it had before. Once again, On my way to class I hit just a little boost and the car is back to running like s*** again. I manage to get the car to class.
I come back out to the car after class, the car cranks up perfect. I drive for about 5 minutes, the CEL goes off and the car is running fine. I baby the car till it gets fully warmed and decide to hit boost again to see if the problem is still there. The car runs fine, pulls hard, and doesn't stumble during acceleration or do anything that resembles what it was doing before. I drove the car around for 50 miles today and everything has been perferct. The problem just came and went. crazy protege
Yesterday I accidently left my lights on for 30-45 minutes before getting back out to the car to leave class. I go to crank the car and it is dead. My stock battery sucks so the car still had power to all the electronics but not enough amps for it to turn over. It's raining hard outside and I'm packed between cars in the lot and constant traffic runs where I back into, so I had a buddy pick me up. I return to the car later in the afternoon and two cars are parked right beside me again, so I can't jump it off.
We decide to roll start the car and it instantly cranks up. I let the car idle a few minutes and decide to take it for a quick trip around campus to charge the battery back up. About a hundred yards into the trip the car starts bucking hard like crazy and the throttle has no effect on rpms. It was like fuel cut + I just blew off a coupling feeling. All of a sudden the car won't idle at all, starts misfiring like crazy, I get a check engine light and have to floor the throttle just to keep it from dying on me. Assuming the battery being low was somehow the problem I throttled an idle for a few minutes just to see if that was the problem.
The car returns to idle fine after a short period of time but as soon as I start driving again, it goes crazy. At this time the car will crank up fine on its own so the battery has recharged enough. I inspect the engine and all the couplers and everthing is as it should be.
I manage to drive the car to the building where I work at on campus and reset the pcm. An hour later, I get back to the car, the pcm is reset ,and the car cranks up and idles perfect. I let the car idle for 10 minutes before hopping in and driving home. 10 minutes into the trip everything is perfect. Thinking all is good again, I get on the throttle a little bit to pass a car and as soon as the car gets a little boost it freaks out once again. It was like the fuel cut and a blown off coupling feeling I had before. The CEL comes on right after it starts bucking, and the car returns to driving like utter s*** again. I manage to get the car home amazingly, and down a few beers to forget about it.
I head to class today and the car cranks up and runs perfectly just as it had before. Once again, On my way to class I hit just a little boost and the car is back to running like s*** again. I manage to get the car to class.
I come back out to the car after class, the car cranks up perfect. I drive for about 5 minutes, the CEL goes off and the car is running fine. I baby the car till it gets fully warmed and decide to hit boost again to see if the problem is still there. The car runs fine, pulls hard, and doesn't stumble during acceleration or do anything that resembles what it was doing before. I drove the car around for 50 miles today and everything has been perferct. The problem just came and went. crazy protege