Anyone with experience of Mazdas?

[Howie]

Just thought i would post this on here before i part with much needed Sprint resto dosh in the hope it might turn out to be something i can remedy at home.<br>
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Have had this niggling little problem with the family wagon (Mazda 323F 1.5 GSE EFI W reg 2000). When applying throttle to pull away it almost seems to suffocate and die momentarily before picking up and revving normally. This as you can imagine can make things pretty hairy pulling on to the busy dual carriage way near where i live and bloody dangerous sometimes. The car idles smoothly (about 800rpm) and apart from this horrendous flat spot on take up it revs fine throughout the rest of the range. I have recently renewed the coils, leads and plugs as advised at the last service - no improvement. There does seem to be a hiss when dabbing the throttle which accompanies the flat spot and then it picks up and almost throws you back in the seat. All or nothing scenario.<br>
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Any ideas what this could be??? <br>
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Thanks <br>
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Howard

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[PurpleBargeKen]

Had a very similar problem with a Micra. Could be the throttle body/Air Mass Meter. Not an expert though. Good luck<br>
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Ken

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[tinweevil]

Check also for leaking or split intake paths hoses / housings etc.

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[dollysteve]

Making the assumption that it`s a manual, those symptoms sound familar to a fault with the clutch switch, done a couple of these. I can`t be sure about the noise though, as Julian says you could have an air leak. If a check of the hoses shows nothing up then you`ll need to pop it in to a mazda dealer to get the fault codes read.

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[george]

go to..... automotiveforums.com you'll see a whole host of cars there should be able to get codes and how to read them whithout a scanner can be read on dash lights same as obd11<br>
if not google it for code retreival mazda (model etc)should get a result for them on there somewhere

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