spun bearing 2xxx miles
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Hopefully, our oil pans are too.
You get rid of your fat wife, or are you just steppin out on her.
Can I get her number?
Hey op, same thing happened to me and there were two other ms3's at the dealer with blown motors. With the number of the 2.3 engines I have seen blow, you would think this would be a recall issue.
My clutch also went out two weeks after I got my car back, and I never abuse the car, and frankly, for a car touted as a performance car, it should be able to handle any reasonable abuse, srt4's don't break this often, even when they are stage 3r. I am honestly tentative now when driving my car, I feel like any time I punch it could be the last time. I think this car really needs the upgraded fuel pump with any modifications. I know it's the next thing I am going to do, I was going to get rid of the car but there is nothing out there that I want in this price range right now, I am just going to wait for the new Hyundai turbo rwd coupe to come out in about a year or so, then sell the ms3.
Good luck to you, my dealer was actually cool about the whole thing, sorry to hear about your troubles, sounds like a lot of b.s. A car shouldn't throw a rod with 2k miles on it, my car had 6k on it. Mercedes redlines their engines for 40k straight miles during their r and d, I am 100 percent positive the ms3 could not handle anything close to that. Now that I am keeping my car, time to finally put the test pipe and cobb springs on. I can't believe I am getting a hyundai in a year, lol, but the thing looks really good and should receive a lot of aftermarket support considering it's price and the fact that its the only reasonably priced turbocharged rwd car to come out since, well, a long long time (not included the mazdaspeed miata, thats a whole different animal, about as practical as snow shoes on a basketball court.
My clutch also went out two weeks after I got my car back, and I never abuse the car, and frankly, for a car touted as a performance car, it should be able to handle any reasonable abuse, srt4's don't break this often, even when they are stage 3r. I am honestly tentative now when driving my car, I feel like any time I punch it could be the last time. I think this car really needs the upgraded fuel pump with any modifications. I know it's the next thing I am going to do, I was going to get rid of the car but there is nothing out there that I want in this price range right now, I am just going to wait for the new Hyundai turbo rwd coupe to come out in about a year or so, then sell the ms3.
Good luck to you, my dealer was actually cool about the whole thing, sorry to hear about your troubles, sounds like a lot of b.s. A car shouldn't throw a rod with 2k miles on it, my car had 6k on it. Mercedes redlines their engines for 40k straight miles during their r and d, I am 100 percent positive the ms3 could not handle anything close to that. Now that I am keeping my car, time to finally put the test pipe and cobb springs on. I can't believe I am getting a hyundai in a year, lol, but the thing looks really good and should receive a lot of aftermarket support considering it's price and the fact that its the only reasonably priced turbocharged rwd car to come out since, well, a long long time (not included the mazdaspeed miata, thats a whole different animal, about as practical as snow shoes on a basketball court.
Lucky man, I think with my skinny wife I'm losing BTUs. I'm still up for a swap if you're interested.
hey my motor threw a rod because of bad bearing! so this seems to be happening a lot of these motors.
ur luckey u got a new motor. mine had to come off the line in japan and be freighted over here. a week and a half to get it from there to across the country!
the crappy part is they fought u over it! the dealer asked me a few ?s about what happened and thats the last i herd about its and 2 weeks lator( with updates every 2 days) i had my car back and shes running like a champ
sweet hu?
ur luckey u got a new motor. mine had to come off the line in japan and be freighted over here. a week and a half to get it from there to across the country!
the crappy part is they fought u over it! the dealer asked me a few ?s about what happened and thats the last i herd about its and 2 weeks lator( with updates every 2 days) i had my car back and shes running like a champ
sweet hu?
^^^I think you forgot to mention the part about the various mods you had on there at one time. According to the OP the car wasn't modded at all.
If you mod your car and it breaks, that's a different story. And I'm not talking about a simple intake either. Once you mess with the boost with no tuning, you're on your own afaic. If you're gonna pile on here about how crappy the ms3 motor is, at least come clean. Finding one's mod history isn't hard on any forum.
If you mod your car and it breaks, that's a different story. And I'm not talking about a simple intake either. Once you mess with the boost with no tuning, you're on your own afaic. If you're gonna pile on here about how crappy the ms3 motor is, at least come clean. Finding one's mod history isn't hard on any forum.
yea but it wasn't long and took it off b/c i couldn't get tuned where i wanted it. safely. there plenty of other people running the same thing i did and they still are doing it and more! so how can u say that! it was the only on for about 3 thousand miles! i know every1 else is still running it at and more then what i had!
Yes but no two cars are exactly the same. You could've done damage and not know it till it finally popped. Remember the homemade intake that ran too lean and caused a CEL? It's not fair to leave that info out. I'm not saying that you definitely caused the problem. For all we know it was a defective motor, but there is reasonable chance your mods contributed to the failure.
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The engine has been in the ten best engines list for two years in a row so I think it's a strong engine.
How much boost were you running with the mbc?
19 in 5 and 6 and other people are running 20 and 21. i wanted it lower then that so i took it off!
and with that ghetto intake. yes it was running lean but not so lean it made the motor boil over or n e thing. so it really couldnt have been that bad. it was just a fail safe like it should of been
and with that ghetto intake. yes it was running lean but not so lean it made the motor boil over or n e thing. so it really couldnt have been that bad. it was just a fail safe like it should of been
yeah, I had a boost controller on my car for all of on week BFD. Alot of people agree with the fact that a boost controller on this car is not agreat idea without a fuel pump, including the fastest person on this forum. A boost controller boosting 3 psi higher than stock is no reason for an engine to be blowing up.
Young Roids
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maybe it has to do with the way the computer controls boost is much more advanced than the way an MBC controls boost. Don't ask me to explain what exactly the computer does for boost control but there is more to it than just a bleeder valve letting air out.
You experimented and lost, that's just the way the mod game plays out sometimes. Comparing this car to another make expecting the same type of mods to work the same way with similar results (without fully understanding all the nuances of the ecu) is just futile.
For those that got new engines after modding, you all should be thanking Mazda instead of bashing them.
So what explanation do you have for my transmission to stop going into gear three seperate times with two different attempts to fix it when the car has only been launched hard ONE time, again, any car sold as a performance car should be able to handle abuse.
And clearly you cannot read, the OP had zero mods on his car, as I did when my engine blew. My car was running stock boost when the motor blew. My car has been in the shop for a total of 26 days in the past 45 days, it's ridiculous. Mazda SELLS mods themselves, so what are you proving by saying it's peoples fault for modding their car. Clearly Mazda designed this car to be modified, or they wouldn't manufacture aftermarket parts themselves. Your holyier than though attitude is so infuriating, guranteed you have a completely different attitude in person. You have no idea of the details of situations yet you bash people without any real clear insight into what happened. The op's car was and has always been stock and the engine blew with 2k miles, and on top of that the dealership gave him a hard time. Why exactly should he be greatful. And don't even get me started on mazda corporate, the must unprofessional people I have ever spoken too. I got zero service until I told them I would be hiring a lawyer, then suddenly I was their best friend.
The people who work at the mazda dealership told my girlfriend that they have been having a huge number of quality control issues with several different makes and models of cars and actually told her we should look to a different manufacturer if we decided to turn the car in.
And the funniest part was, when I took my car in and they saw that jiffy lube had changed my oil, they instantly said it was jiffy lubes fault and I needed to go after them and refused to accept my car, well that actually happened to my girlfriend, it was a different story when I went. Mazda- first class all the way!!!
