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- Mazda, Protege5
I just had an issue car would just turn off while driving it. No symptoms of it happening just bam! Its off. Turns out the crank sensor had chaffed just below the plug against the lifting eyelet causing it to ground out and kill the engine. Took 3 days to find that. Might be a wire worn down near the cam or crank sensors
Sounds to me like a crank shaft position sensor failure?
From my research, the CSPS could also have the same symptoms that my P5 has, except I am unsure about the issue being intermitted. Plus, it seems like weather has an impact on if the problem shows. It warm weather, the car was fine, but the colder it got, the worse the problems were. Also rain had an impact. If it was raining, but not cold, the problem would sometimes show. This is why I thought it could be electrical in nature, such as a short.