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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 02:30 PM
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Wow....in 5 hours, no one else posted? Site seems dead today. Anyways, I found an '09 8 here at school and I left a note on his windshield, so hopefully he joins.
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by HockeyRX-8
Wow....in 5 hours, no one else posted? Site seems dead today. Anyways, I found an '09 8 here at school and I left a note on his windshield, so hopefully he joins.
I'm bored at work...


What school do you go to?
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 02:37 PM
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 03:27 PM
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Seton Hall University
what for?
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 05:18 PM
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lernen?
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 05:54 PM
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lernen?
psh, everyone knows college is a waste of money.
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 06:14 PM
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Right now I'm in pre-sciences, but next year I'll be in physics.....and yes everyone knows college is a waste of money......IDK why I go lol.
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 08:34 PM
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the women....duh!
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 08:57 PM
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^point taken....and there is alot of women at my college
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 09:07 PM
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see im always right
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 09:32 PM
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^point taken....and there is alot of women at my college
really, bring me to your college man, so i can expand my business as bangkok..LOL
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 09:57 PM
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Can the cold cause the 8 to go into a limp mode????
I started the car today, normal start, came back 15 minutes later once it was warmed up and found a solid check engine light. I drove for a few feet and it felt like 10hp was moving it.

So i proceeded to do the 20 brake pedal ecu reset. Car drove fine after that but the light stayed on. I went to auto zone and no codes came up from the scanner. Any idea whats going on???
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 09:58 PM
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LOL my 200th post is a RX8 Failed me post
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by RX927
Can the cold cause the 8 to go into a limp mode????
I started the car today, normal start, came back 15 minutes later once it was warmed up and found a solid check engine light. I drove for a few feet and it felt like 10hp was moving it.

So i proceeded to do the 20 brake pedal ecu reset. Car drove fine after that but the light stayed on. I went to auto zone and no codes came up from the scanner. Any idea whats going on???
Are you still in warranty? If so, head over to your local Mazda stealership.

You should also get a Cobb AccessPORT, great investment and it would tell you what your code is.
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by HockeyRX-8
Right now I'm in pre-sciences, but next year I'll be in physics.....and yes everyone knows college is a waste of money......IDK why I go lol.
science is for nerds....
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 10:05 PM
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Out of warranty. Ive had 2 Accessport ecu's and sold them both. Your right there great for reading/clearing codes. Ill give it a few miles to turn off before i look deeply into whats going on. Just hoping it was the engine not liking the 5 degrees weather at warm up.
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 10:07 PM
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Out of warranty. Ive had 2 Accessport ecu's and sold them both. Your right there great for reading/clearing codes.
I've found it useful for a lot of things besides just that. Well, if you have no warranty, you can either bring it to Mazda and deal with the empty wallet, purchase a CAP and figure out the code, then see what needs to be done, or deal with it for now.

The most prudent might be bringing it to Mazda
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by RX927
Can the cold cause the 8 to go into a limp mode????
I started the car today, normal start, came back 15 minutes later once it was warmed up and found a solid check engine light. I drove for a few feet and it felt like 10hp was moving it.

So i proceeded to do the 20 brake pedal ecu reset. Car drove fine after that but the light stayed on. I went to auto zone and no codes came up from the scanner. Any idea whats going on???
there are people who routinely drive the car when its -30.. so no.. cold will not directly put you in limp mode.
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 10:11 PM
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Yeaaa im not really a go to the stealership kind of guy. Im gonna try another obd scanner tomorrow, if not ill borrow my old AP from a local buyer and see if it catches the code.
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Old Jan 16, 2009 | 05:56 AM
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Old Jan 16, 2009 | 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by alz0rz
there are people who routinely drive the car when its -30.. so no.. cold will not directly put you in limp mode.
yuppers, that's me. when i was home for xmas i was driving my baby in -20 f weather almost every day. ran faster... colder air allows for more hp.

BUT
my car did a funny thing when i started it and it was colder than about -15. as soon as i put the car in neutral and let it warm up, it would run through a rev cycle? as in, it would rev itself to about 3 k about once a second for five minutes (about). when it got warm enough it would stop revving and run at about 2 k, and then slowly decrease engine speed to a normal of 750 at optimal temp. i've never seen another car do that before. it's kind of unnerving. when it was warmer though, or if i ran it recently... like a couple hours before... it would NOT do this. so i'm positive it was a TEMP issue and not really a MAF issue, like i first thought.

odd huh?

also, for reference, lcd screens don't really work at about -3 deg f... so forget knowing your speed and what radio channel you're listening to, haha.
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Old Jan 16, 2009 | 12:22 PM
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the cold does have my car acting a bit funny lately but when shes warm shes as good as new.
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Old Jan 16, 2009 | 12:52 PM
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bankok you bring the asian women
I will bring the spanish chicks

This cold as weather is starting to suck, traveling to miami for work in feb again though hahaha looking forward to seeing some friends Puerto rico for 3 days my friends mom passed away so I told her I will go with her. and the beach I hope but I doubt it

but Cant wait till april so I can make the meets in Pacman. for now its business as usual. bad news today stupid training budget for my company has been cut. its starting to get scary what can happen. thankgod Im young and no kids but I did take on a part time if I pass my physical....
might be able to post more from second job :0)
stay warm you pelcans Im lurking but still around
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Old Jan 16, 2009 | 06:01 PM
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kel just bring superman out
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Old Jan 17, 2009 | 08:12 AM
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ppl are coming to chill tom (sun) anyone is welcomed as long as youre not strange, a pedaphile, or a killer........ come whenever pm me for addy.

usually just chill then were gonna hit up fuddruckers on rt 18

abdul are you coming?
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