legokcen

I was driving home from work today and turned at a light. When I put the car in second, I felt a strong hesitation and heard popping or loud ticking noises at around 4-5K. I immediately got alarmed and let off on the gas. The car had been perfectly fine until then. I couldn't reproduce the event at all the rest of the way home. The tank is 3/4 full. I recently got new spark plugs from Mazda. I didn't get a CEL or anything. It pulls strong now and everything seems fine. I'm confused and worried.

I've done a search and have read things about wires and misfiring, but I would think the misfiring would bring up a CEL. I'm going to take it to Mazda on Thursday to see what's up with the car. Any other suggestions?

Nemesis8

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Must have been the famous second gear synchro gremlin, but you scared it off.

legokcen

That is scary. I don't want anything to happen to the transmission....

Go48

Popping/ticking noises from the engine? Do you mean that happened when you got on the gas? If so, and since it didn't happen again, it could be bad gas--as in water in the gas.

VOODOO8

If you were downshifting in to second aggresively going in to the turn the noise you heard might have been a backfire???

Has happened to others when dumping gas in a heavy downshift.

yiksing

I thought backfire only happens in cars with modded exhaust

legokcen

No downshifting. I started from a light, in first. Then went to second to continue accellerating (not hard, just normal driving). At around 4K in second, I heard the sound and felt the power loss.

VOODOO8

I run stock and have had it happen a couple of times in 60K + miles of use. Have to really be pulling a hard downshift but it can be done with stock exhaust.