Took my car in for 8000km service today. Told them to do a L reflash and their facial expression was in between a puzzled and a worried look.... I came back to pick it up and they told me that my car's "running fine" and the reflash is for cars that are made earlier than mine. Mine was made in Dec (inside door) and I told him well, the L reflash cures the rich mixture and leans it out and the guy laughs and says if I lean out hte mixture I'm gonna have a misfire and stuff....
was he BSing me cause they don't know how to do the reflash and I should go find a dealer in vancouver who WOULD do it for me?

Edit: so has anyone got the L version done in vancouver?

 

I think Jays was saying he did, might wanna pm him and see what he did, and if it helped

 

thanks I just msged danno and he told me wolfe in surrey
pisses me off the guy tried to argue with me that there's no such thing.
how can mazda service guys not know about stuff like that? ah well...

 

Well, my service guys didn't know about the PCM reflashes either. But they also know I usually have more information than they do (I called and told them when my car reached the autoport last year...) so when I asked for it, they just called Mazda to find out what to do. No problem.

 

I thought the reflash was only applicable to the first two production runs of the vehicles...ie. sold between June - Sept.

I could be mistaken.

 

Nope, I purchased mine in October and the build date was September. Had mine done. My understanding is that it can be done for any car that isn't already up to the "L" build.

 

sweet when i go to get the factory mazda lip and rotary crest and the air outlets hahhaha its gonna be good ill ask them im gonna take a print out of this info just so i can act like i know stuff :P

 

Rotary Titus, to check for the L flash, turn the key on, without stating the engine, then tap the brake pedal at least 20 times in 8 sec. Watch the oil pressure gauge, it will move up then down if you have the L flash.

 

thanks sea ray, I just did it, and no reaction from pressure guage oh well my next service I'll do it