Fisrt i am not throwing any dealership under the bus. Just stating my experiance with them... And i will make it short... ask questions and i will reply...

this is in South Charleston, WV

4 month ago I replaced the coil packs, wires, plugs.

3 months dealer replaced CAT.
3rd on the car in three years.

2 weeks ago, new plugs again... 9,000 miles

today, did a compression test and a de-carb. at the dealership

they tried to charge me 205$ for the de-carbing which falls under the LACK OF POWER TSB, and is covered under warrenty. this is something they should have done to the car after they replaced the converter. since a cloged converter causes deposits in the motor??? second when i picked up my car they said that it passed the compression test but didnt offer to give me any documentation on it... I asked for the read out for the compression test and they told me the following.
readings are in kgf/cm2
rotor 1 @250
6.4 6.4 6.3

rotor 2 @250
6.7 6.9 6.6

after doing the caclulations and asking some great people in this forum I find out the the lower limit for Mazda is 6.9. Sooo, anything 6.9 or lower is bad and needs replaced.

??????? why would they tell me it was good when it was not? I will ask that question along with all of my found information pertaining to Mazdas standards and will go from there...

If anyone else is or has had issues and would like to discuse it please let me know.

hope this helps someone.

sorry for the spelling, going fast!!!

wow,

is petes still there? i have been to hurricane wva.

those #s are real low. i would call mazda na. and start the ball rolling. ask them for the vacuum #s.

beers :beer:

I live in hurricane!!! Funny., i am calling them today and geting the number to mazda and geting things started... I will keep posting on the situation.

todays update,

Contacted Mazda NA. started a file on the whole things. talked to the Tech today and he said that going off the old "chart" i would have failed. Going by the "new" chart I passed. So i gave all the info to Mazda and they are looking into the situation and should know something by they end of the day....

keep us posted

new engine. im rootin for ya

What color is your 8? I live in SC, WV and I think I might have seen it parked up there. That dealership pretty much sucks. Told me it would be almost $300 to change out the clutch master cylinder. I decided just to tackle it myself.

hey guys,

another day has gone by and not a work from MAZDA. i will continue to call until morall inproves... my 8 is a re one too

ps. nice car!!

Does it have aftermarket parts? because there was another velocity red down there with a carbon hood carbon trunk and what I think was enkie wheels.

UPDATE!!!

After spending 2 weeks talking to MAZDA they said unless my engine drops below 6.3 they will not replace the engine and that it is in spec... I asked them what about the slugish power and the dying at stop lights and the constant replacment of parts due to the engine not running properly and they just keep saying that unless the engine is BELOW 6.3 they will not replace the motor and I will just have to live with all of the issues myself...

Again, We wounder why MAZDA has such a bad rep!!!!