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On a side note, if I reset the ecu by disconnecting the battery and pumping the brakes, will this delete the ecu flash that the dealer did when I took it in last year, or will this just delete the accumulated data that the car has learned since then? I just recently did the throttle body ground...

Since I live about 45 min from the dealer I can't just take it there when the problem arises immediately. Is there a particular sensor that I should have them test? O2, Mass Air Flow, ...?

I guess the mpg's aren't the big issue, it is the bogging down feel. When the car is running good, it has great pickup and shifts good. When it is running bad it gets worse mpg's and the shifting changes and it feels like it lacks power. I guess I just mentioned the mpg's because that seems to...

Thanks for the input NTIMD8R. I do have a set of racing beat sways with endlinks on order, I guess they are on back order a few weeks. How are the stock rear end links holding up for you? I get alot of sway in the back of my car on the free way that is why I chose the rb sways. From my research...

Well I have been putzing around with my car the past week or so and I think my car acts differently off and on. By this I mean one time it will drive normally and have normal acceleration and normal shifting, and other times it will seem to not be all there and shifts kinda different. The main...

Ok, I ordered the Koni Sports, hopefully these will get here fairly soon. Please recommend settings for these. I do mostly freeway driving, I don't want the ride too harsh. I like how the stock front struts feel, but the stock rears seem to make the rear of the car bounce around a lot on broken...

Ok I am back to the koni sports again, but I want a little bit of info first. Can someone describe the basic range of dampening that the sports provide from soft to hard compared to the stock shocks for the mazda 3. By this I mean how do they compare to the stocks at full soft and full hard. I...

Well I have another question, I ordered the koni fsd kit (for stock height), but they were on back order through koni till August. I canceled the order and am looking at the koni sport struts. How do you adjust the koni sport struts? All of the details I have found say that they have to be...

I guess the thing that bugs me the most is that say I get the transmission controller reflashed, the car drives great for about a week to a week and a half. It shifts smoothly, it has great pickup, and it gets about 32 mpg. Then a week and a half goes by and then all of a sudden it starts...

Can anyone that has the 5 speed automatic tell me if their cars shifting pattern ever changes, mine seems to change about every other week, it gets kind of annoying and mazda has looked at mine and says that it is normal since the car is just adapting to my driving style. But this cycle repeats...

Ok, I forgot about the fact that they have to bake them. I knew about having to remove them and having the wheels stripped. I just wasn't sure if the tpms could be painted, or if it would look stupid with silver tpms on black wheels.

So I am getting new tires soon and I am thinking about getting my stock wheels powder coated satin black while they are off my car. The question I have is has anybody had wheels powder coated, and if so did they have tire pressure monitors? My tpms are silver to match the stock wheel color...

Being that my car is an 07 it really isn't that old yet, and it only has 27,000 miles on it. I don't hear any clunking and I have had it looked at by a suspension shop. They said nothing looked wrong, but I will have them look at it when I take it in to get the struts put in. I have decided to...

I have a 2007 m3 hatch with the 5 speed automatic and was wondering what the normal shift points are for this car. Mine seems to shift up a bit early and does not like to down shift. If I am light on the gas, it will shift up by about 2000 rpm, if I am normal it will shift up just below 3000...

Can anyone tell what is better with stock springs the bilstein hd or the bilstein sport struts

Ok I have been looking around and I think I want the bilstein hd struts, but I can't find anyplace local that carries them, can anyone recommend a reputable online dealer that sells them. I know tirerack has the front ones, but not the rear ones. Thanks, Josh

I do rock winter tires in the winter, bridgestone blizzaks, best money I ever spent. I was considering the kumo ecsta asx and the kumo ecsta lx platinum, because I had read good reviews of them, I was leaning more toward the lx platinums because of the fact that they are supposed to have less...

So I am now thinking about getting the koni fsd or the bilstein hd struts, and possibly the racing beat swaybar package. I would put the struts in first then the sway bar second. Can anyone tell me from experience which strut is better? Also if I just change struts and not replace the springs...

So I have been looking at reviews for the past week or so of the koni fsd and there have been some reports that they are a little soft, that is one of the reasons that I am replacing the stock ones, most of the reviews that I have seen for the bilstein hd struts said that they were better. Any...