2800 miles on MS3 w/ check engine light

[rodney]

I was driving home yesterday and just as i got to the stop light to turn on my street, my car started to studder and wouldn't let me go past 3,000 rpm. check engine light came on, along with my traction control light staying on. now my car will start but idles high and my gas pedal was like a dead peddle and would'nt let me do anything. just floored it and the rpm's didn't move. so i scanned the light, and came up with 4 codes, all for my pedal position sensor for low input to 4 different circuits. i am gonna have to tow it to the dealer, but i am running open exhaust so i have to put that together in the morning before i tow it in so i dont void my warranty.

so i was wondering if anyone else has had this problem besides me on the MS3

 

[dread]

wow that sucks, this is the first I have heard of a problem with the pedal position sensor. Let us know how it works out and good luck.

 

[rodney]

It Has Been A Week Already In The Shop , They Replaced The Throttle Body, And Throttle Pos. Sensor, The Replaced The Pedal Pos. Sensor, And Both Of Those Didn't Make A Difference. So The Test To See If The Pcm Was Good, And It Turns Out That It Isn't So They Ordered A New Pcm And There Waiting For One Now And Hopefully This Fixes The Problem(s). It Has Already Been There For Over A Week And Half Already.

 

[voiceKoil]

It Has Been A Week Already In The Shop , They Replaced The Throttle Body, And Throttle Pos. Sensor, The Replaced The Pedal Pos. Sensor, And Both Of Those Didn't Make A Difference. So The Test To See If The Pcm Was Good, And It Turns Out That It Isn't So They Ordered A New Pcm And There Waiting For One Now And Hopefully This Fixes The Problem(s). It Has Already Been There For Over A Week And Half Already.

Any updates?

 

[M3_Zoom]

WOW! Now that's what I call an extreme issue. Let us know the outcome and what the cause of the failure was.

 

[Scott]

Ah, the beauties of DBW systems.

 

[speedi3]

I was driving home yesterday and just as i got to the stop light to turn on my street, my car started to studder and wouldn't let me go past 3,000 rpm. check engine light came on, along with my traction control light staying on. now my car will start but idles high and my gas pedal was like a dead peddle and would'nt let me do anything. just floored it and the rpm's didn't move. so i scanned the light, and came up with 4 codes, all for my pedal position sensor for low input to 4 different circuits. i am gonna have to tow it to the dealer, but i am running open exhaust so i have to put that together in the morning before i tow it in so i dont void my warranty.

so i was wondering if anyone else has had this problem besides me on the MS3

Sorry to hear your about your problem and i hope that its fixed by the time you read this... What is an open exhaust?

 

[rodney]

an open exhaust is when you are just running it from the down pipe, anyways they blamed it on the exhaust melting some of the wire harness and nothing was getting the right signal i faught it and after a month they decide this bs, so i went to the dealer yesterday and said screw you im gonna just tow it out of hear . so then they wanted to charge me for the rental and the labor put into it so far and i told them to show me a paper where i authorized to pay anything at all and all they had that i signed was that it was going to be warranty and a paper saying the rental was covered at mazda's expense. so im taking them to the court of law, i already have an attorney. and also when i towed my car back to my work it was in complete stripped ,carpet, wiring,seats, roof , basically bare sheet metal so it took me all day to repair the harness and put everything back the way it was.

 

[matsuda]

an open exhaust is when you are just running it from the down pipe, anyways they blamed it on the exhaust melting some of the wire harness and nothing was getting the right signal i faught it and after a month they decide this bs, so i went to the dealer yesterday and said screw you im gonna just tow it out of hear . so then they wanted to charge me for the rental and the labor put into it so far and i told them to show me a paper where i authorized to pay anything at all and all they had that i signed was that it was going to be warranty and a paper saying the rental was covered at mazda's expense. so im taking them to the court of law, i already have an attorney. and also when i towed my car back to my work it was in complete stripped ,carpet, wiring,seats, roof , basically bare sheet metal so it took me all day to repair the harness and put everything back the way it was.

Let me get this straight...

You screwed up your car and you are upset that is was not covered under warranty?

 

[NSX MS3]

is your car fixed yet?

moral: buy a 3" exhaust j.k.

 

[gsrtype1]

dude that sucks, my freind cut his is exhuats of from the cats back but not from the down pipe back i'll tell him what happend to you

 

[BSTD3]

Let me get this straight...

You screwed up your car and you are upset that is was not covered under warranty?

I thought the same thing?

 

[evilmonkeyMSP]

hopefully mazda comes and finds this thread and you'll be done for in court

 

[Kosh]

Did the open exhaust really cause the wires to melt? It would have to get heat through the heat shield under the car to get to those wires if I'm thinking of the right ones. If it was the open exhaust that caused the problem then you should drop your case and own up to your mod. I don't think wires just melt on their own.

 

[Young Roids]

Yo Rodney do everyone a favor and never try to get warranty work done again. It's people like you who ruin it for the rest of us. You really don't get it do you, why should anyone help you when you obviously caused the problem with your open exhast. no wonder dealers act like aholes to everybody.

 

[CaSHMeRe]

I was driving home yesterday and just as i got to the stop light to turn on my street, my car started to studder and wouldn't let me go past 3,000 rpm. check engine light came on, along with my traction control light staying on. now my car will start but idles high and my gas pedal was like a dead peddle and would'nt let me do anything. just floored it and the rpm's didn't move. so i scanned the light, and came up with 4 codes, all for my pedal position sensor for low input to 4 different circuits. i am gonna have to tow it to the dealer, but i am running open exhaust so i have to put that together in the morning before i tow it in so i dont void my warranty.

so i was wondering if anyone else has had this problem besides me on the MS3

and that is what happens when you run an open dump (evil)

 

[camrycev6]

Unfortunately, this is one of the risks you take when you put unauthorized mods on your car. I can empathize with your situation, but I cannot feel sorry for you. You had to know this going in. Good luck with it.

 

[Jesse MS3GT]

I had the same exact issue with my car a few weeks back... Had it towedx to the dealer and they claimed "no codes present" or any CEL on the car. Yeah, they just disc the battery seeing as all my presets were gone. Seems to run alright now though

 

[serialtoon]

This is the sole reason why i havent installed ANY mods on my car. My previous car has a few things put in and when the dealer saw it, automatically blammed it. Im keeping this baby stock, so if anything happens, they dont have any mod to blame.

 

[CaSHMeRe]

This is the sole reason why i havent installed ANY mods on my car. My previous car has a few things put in and when the dealer saw it, automatically blammed it. Im keeping this baby stock, so if anything happens, they dont have any mod to blame.

and you will live the life of a boring MS3 owner ... (laugh)