Ok so it has been a few days since I updated this. Had to cool down. My car, NO WAIT MY DEALERSHIP has royally pissed me off. I took it in and had the Service manager drive it. He saw exactly what I was talking about BUT said that the car was completely normal!!!! His conclusion about my car was that it was not properly setup from the factory or the dealer when I bought it. So the computer was able to compensate for the improper setting until it got really cold( which is kind of when I started having alot of problems with it) SOOOO that means I have been driving my car screwed up since I bought it 4000 miles ago. HMMMM NOT GOOD!!!! What he said made sense to me knowing that these cars are almost completely controlled by computer when it comes to engine functions. So I had him record that I came back in and had the car checked out and what his diagnosis was. I left and thought that my problems were over. He said that he called several people including the Mazda Q&A guy that knows of all the current problems with cars and deals with lemon law cars and recalls. He told me he would call me if any of them said anything different on my car. He also said that I could come back in and drive a 5 spd P5 (when they get one in) to insure how a properly setup P5 should run. Well I never heard anything back from him.
And then last night I go to leave work and I get like 1 minute from my office and the damn CEL comes on. I immediately stop the car and pullover and call the dealer. The guy tells me to make sure that my gas cap is on correctly. UHHH ok but I haven't filled up since before I was in there last week I tell him. He then tells me that it is ok to drive with the CEL on and that there is most likely nothing major to worry about because the CEL is not blinking. Well after a rather heated discussion I flat out told them that they would have a loaner car waiting for me and that I would be there in 20 minutes. The discussion was about wether or not last weeks problems had anything to do with the CEL coming on. He didn't think so! I did! He argued about giving me a loaner again and made it sound like he was going to give me a damn priceless automobile to drive and that he was doing me this huge favor. Well I drop my car off and I tell him what the S.MGR and I had talked about and this guy(same guy I have been working with the whole time on my car) tells me this is the first he has heard of any of this. HMMM communication problem!!!!! Welll you ought to see this piece of s*** they gave me to drive. Not that the car as in model is a piece but the condition of the car. It is a 2001 Protege ES auto, cloth , sunroof. First off the smell of gasoline was so strong on the inside I was afraid to light a cigarette in it. Second this thing is so freaking nasty dirty that I only got like a minute down the road before I had to go and buy some windex to clean the windows. You wouldn't have beleived the layer of just s*** that came off of the windows. Overall the car was just trashed. Such a shame cause it only has 5K on it. Well I left with him telling me that my car would be first in the morning and as soon as he got it hooked up to the computer and found out what the problem was he would call me. I again verified my cell number and work # with them. It is now almost 11 and still no call. CAN YOU SAY VISIT #3 OF 4 that are required for lemon law. I flat out told the manager last week that the only reason I brought up lemon laws in the first place was because of how I was being treated about the problems with my car. If somebody had actually shown me a little respect and some actual effort in trying to fix my car I wouldn't have been this irate or upset. I will post again when I hear from them .
BTW. the S. MGR told me that it was my BASE IDLE that was not properly set from the factory and that they set it back to factory specs.
