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- 2003.5 MP5 Laser Blue Automatic (SOLD)
this just happened literally half hour ago. i'm driving normally on a local street no more than 45mph and all of a sudden i feel the engine rapidly slow down slightly where my head moves forward and i hear a loud knocking/rattleing clicking noise from the engine. immediatelly i pull over and open the hood and there is nothing unusual visually and i hear a rattle somewhere in the engine. nothing is leaking under either. it sounds like i something broke and fell inside one of the cylinders like a screw or something. now this makes me remember 2 or 3 years ago mazda had a recall for some kind of problem where the intake screws or something can come loose and fall into the engine. so naturally i did'nt want that to happen so i set up a appointment to go to the dealer. i went to a dealer reccomended by one of the mazda meet guys that i regularly met at the meets. i get to the dealer and i am told to leave the car there for a few hours while they give me a loaner to use and they will call me when the work is done. so exaclty like that they call me few hours later and i go pick up my car. of course the car drives the same way it did when i left it there. now my question is this. how can i be sure they did the work to prevent something like this from happeneing? how can i check if the preventive work was actually done? anyone know the procedure to actually check this recalled problem? i really HATE dealerships with everything they do to our cars. i do all preventive maintenance on my car myself as i dont trust them. Anyone in north/central NJ is willing to meet me somewhere to listen to this noise and see it im right that its the intake screw bouncing around in there?