Hello all
I am helping my brother with his car, a 2004 Mazda 6 V6. He came to me with a strange problem with his car yesterday and its got me a little confused.
His story is that he was driving along the highway on cruise contral and pushed the accelerate button and the engine reved up to 5000 rpm for a second then the engine stopped and wouldnt start again. There was also oil on the ground under the car. After sitting for a long while it managaed to start again but had very little power and had two engine codes (cyl #1 misfire and intake cam bank #1 over retarded). The codes were erased and we drove the car to my shop today. The codes did not re-appear but there is still very little power, the engine stalls when the A/C is turned on and there is what sounds like a knock from the bottom end of the engine.
I havn't looked into it too much but I can tell before tearing a few things off where the oil came from or what is going on. If anyone has any theories, suggestions or any past experience with this type of problem I would really like to hear from you.
Edit: Just found out today, the car overheated when it first had the problem on the highway.
Thanks
Sean
I am helping my brother with his car, a 2004 Mazda 6 V6. He came to me with a strange problem with his car yesterday and its got me a little confused.
His story is that he was driving along the highway on cruise contral and pushed the accelerate button and the engine reved up to 5000 rpm for a second then the engine stopped and wouldnt start again. There was also oil on the ground under the car. After sitting for a long while it managaed to start again but had very little power and had two engine codes (cyl #1 misfire and intake cam bank #1 over retarded). The codes were erased and we drove the car to my shop today. The codes did not re-appear but there is still very little power, the engine stalls when the A/C is turned on and there is what sounds like a knock from the bottom end of the engine.
I havn't looked into it too much but I can tell before tearing a few things off where the oil came from or what is going on. If anyone has any theories, suggestions or any past experience with this type of problem I would really like to hear from you.
Edit: Just found out today, the car overheated when it first had the problem on the highway.
Thanks
Sean
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