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Car is fixed. In the end replaced the engine. It was a crack in the cylinder head (less cost for replacement engine from a salvage yard than new head). Best guess on what happened is had a small coolant leak that went unnoticed finally got low enough and caused engine to overheat and...

OK Mazda you win I give up. 25 years of owning cars from Sh*T boxes to BMW's and repairing them all. I am making an appoint at a auto repair shop something I thought that would never happen. Definitely a crackhead or blown gasket may need a new engine just don't have the time or energy to...

I'm going to check the compression later today but in the meantime drain the coolant doesn't look good.

My car does not have engine oil cooler so back to head gasket.....

There was some oil visible floating on top of the coolant and some water in the engine oil.

Is there a cooler for the engine oil? I thought the oil cooler would be for the ATF?

I did not do the bubble test but did see several drops of oil in the coolant.

It has been running and starting fine. Does not stutter and have not noticed a loss of power. I did have a loss of fuel economy but had a bad front brake caliper causing a rub.

At the gas station I used what was a available a general 50/50 mix that said compatible with all coolants. I then got Pentosin Pentofrost A2 which was listed as a FL-22 coolant.

So I am driving home on the highway last week and and get high temp warning. I drive a couple miles to the next exit and find that the coolant level is low. I put in some from a gas station and get the car home. I can not find any signs of a leak and checked the thermostat and its all...

Nope was part of headlight assembly.

That was it drain from the headlight..... Thanks for the help

Thank you I will take a look for that. I went through a bunch of schematics for the engine but did not look at lighting.

The pc that looks broken is plastic and the tube is rubbery.

2 years has been my experience to

I have this code too. Changed both sensors and heater works great. Anybody have other fixes for this?

Mystery part fell out when took off plastic shroud under engine on drivers side. Anyone know what it is?