Karack

yep, replace the faulty solenoid.

as for the original post, reset the codes and adaptive memory then do the 20 pedal brake stomp to reset the CPS profile. after that start the engine and let it idle for 10 minutes.

done.

ptjet2004

Thanks for the info

ecookman

Yep, just the car struggling to tune itself out. When I switch from MM's performance tune and an economy tune, the car loves to run like **** and stall, for about a half hour of 2 complete cycles. My "quick-n-dirty" non pro fix was simply to let the car warm up at idle, if it kept stalling i bliped the gas up to 4-5k and just kept doing that for around 5 mins. Pisses off the neighbors with my CAI and OBX system. But screwem.
If you HAVE to drive the car right away, just blip your baby.

Also when I bought my car a few months ago... It has been sitting with a dead battery for ~5 months, had to continuously blip the gas for a good 10 minutes, otherwise it would flood and stall. 4 bumpstarts later I figured that out (good thing these cars only need like 10 feet to get going). No problems after that until I played with tuning.

MarioCoastie

I had an idle issue with the wife's car. Power was good thru the rpm range. You could hear a little miss every couple of seconds or so, not real noticeable. I replaced all four plugs, wires, and both leading ignition coils. This helped somewhat but still had a slight idle miss. Since her car was seven years old and had 91k miles, I decided to take it to the local Mazda dealership and have a compression check done. The suggested a "decarb" as well. For around $260 USD for a decarb and compression check, I felt that this was an alright deal. Long story short, they found compression at 8.0 and 8.1 average out of three tests. 8.5 is brand new and 6.5 or lower is a candidate for the replacement warranty. I would suspect that an 8.0 average is not too bad for a 90k+ engine. They also found the front rotor Trailing ignition coil misfiring intermittently. Replaced it myself and I can barely tell it is idling. Very smooth idle and maybe some more power thru the rpm range. Not gauged the mpg yet; I would agree it kinda sucks anyways... lol

MarioCoastie

Turn the ignition key to the "On" position
Within eight seconds, pump the brakes and watch the oil pressure gauge.
When it reads half way, then back down, start the car.
This resets the Eccentric Shaft Position sensor.
Apparently if you loose battery power for whatever reason, your eccentric shaft position sensor may need to be reset. This may, or may not, have an idle issue. One of the first things the dealership asked me if I had done when I took the wife's car in for a compression check and decarb described in another post.

Eea0019

I just replaced my battery and had the same issue. The guy at the dealer suggested I needed a new alternator to keep the car running. I decided to not replace it since I didn't have that issue before replacing the battery. Drove it home keeping it running and revved it up to 4K rpms and slowly let it back to 800 and it stayed now it's back to normal with no issues

RIWWP

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^ Correct, fuel trims are reset with a battery disconnect (which happens with a new battery installation), and the area most easily affected is the idle fuel trims. As a result, idle stability is often affected. The best way to resolve this is to just start the car and let it idle itself warm, and then idle for 5-10 minutes after it gets up to temp. You should have enough fuel trim built for idle at that point to avoid stalling in normal driving.

MarioCoastie

My wife's battery also died a couple of years ago. Brake pump resets the eccentric shaft sensor, tells the ECU where in real time the shaft is for firing purposes.

Also was doing a spark plug change out and after three seconds after start up to test my work, the coil went out! Dealership charges astronomical amount for a coil pack when my local "Auto" parts "Zone" place to buy stuff gives a limited lifetime for 20 bucks.

Ninja90037

I am painting my friends 2004 Rx8 Last night the car wouldn't start it turned over real hard and then just clicked. Popped the hood to charge battery and saw so much green **** I new exzacly what was Wong found a penny bent like a spacer on terminal got rid of that and bent clamps back to normal after spending a hour trying to get green tarnish of form inside of the battery clamp put back to gather started right up Let it warm up and then it was really late so I went inside the house around 3 o'clock in the morning set out and go fishing head on down to Walmart start the car waiting for to warm up a little bit backed out of the backyard went to close the gate knew I had to go back upstairs and grab something turn the car off came back turn it on it started right up and then died started up die started up died I was determined to go fishing so I tried doing break gas break gas clutch brake yes clutch that wasn't working so I headed home and now I've done all kinds of stuff did the test we pump the brakes I did this to me will test because those light both those lights Ron I stirred up warmed it up as soon as I put my foot on the gas it died so now I'm stuck I have no idea what's going on I checked all fuses there was one hose it was cracked it goes from the oil spout to the throttlebody hose . All night I've read you guys post very interesting about this car so now I really need to figure this out. Earlier I started up it idle for a long time warmed up for a long time and then I had to go pick up my friends prescriptions so I stopped it right now I'm going to go out and try it and see what's going on what or if there's anything I should do this next time when I started up and I've read everything that you guys said to do so I'm I really know what to try to do I've read it everything . Please just give me some hope I don't want to call my friend tell him his cars not working he just bought it for $3000. It worked just fine before I took the battery off. Well didn't work fine and it wouldn't start because all that damn corrosion using the pennies as a spacer pennies get tarnished easy with the carbon hood Every time you wash the car water gets all over the engine.
OK Going out to the car