No it wont cost you anything and it looks like Mazda issued a statement saying that all cars must be flashed up to the latest version.

I am going to contact my dealership abou this latest flash on tuesday, but would sure love to know what it's called.. I am assuming N.. but am not sure..

I guess i'll just refer to it as the latest flash and see what the date they received it on.

 

do we have any confirmation that this is an actual new flash and for real?

 

I have an appointment to go in on Tuesday at 1100. I will let everyone know if they have heard of the "N Flash" in Georgia.

I have had my RX8 since September 2003... What level flash do you think I am at? L? And is there anyway to tell? I want to be able to compare the difference.

Currently, my overall mileage is 17.62 over all (70 city/30 highway) with my highest being 22.1 and my lowest being 14.8mpg. I keep really good stats on it so I will be able to tell an improved efficiency difference pretty quickly.

 

Sweet - please let me know. I'll be picking up my 8 next weekend, and I want to make sure that they put it on the latest flash, which up 'til now I thought was the "M". Unfortunately my car was produced right before 3/12/04, so I guess it has the "L" instead of the "M" preloaded.

 

Is there a guage that shows the current mpg, or is all this just calculations by the user?

 

Calculations by user.

 

Well according to another post by EatMyBanana there is indeed one more new flash... https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...threadid=29979

 

just left mazda to have my new 8 flash updated. and YES there is a new flash as of 5/21/04. he tried to download it but could not and with the holiday no one was at mazda. so he did up date it to the newest one he had.( my car was i week old and did not have the newest one) so i have to return to get the newest newest. and yes flashs are free. also the k,l,m mines nothing to them. he showed me the computer screen and there lots of new updates. i noticed that they did contain either k,l,m but there where several under each letter. so that lead me to belive k was first with serveal updates to k then L started with lots of updates then on to M . so i belive this is still M updated.

 

A new flash was issued 5/21/04 and only two people have heard of it?

-Mr. Wigggles

 

all i can say is i was there today and he turned the computer scrren around and it said new pcm update issued 5/21/04. he was not aware of it untill i told him to look.He says they only download updates every two weeks. he also said the RX8 club guys find things out before them.

 

Since someone was asking how I calculated my mileage.. thought you guys would like this information. Here are the number... Look at the next post for when I had it serviced (I assume the flashed it at 3000 miles)

 

And of the most interest is at the 3000 mileage (I had it first serviced) and at the 5000 mileage where there is a huge increase from it not running so rich! Remember this is a running average. Total Mileage to Total Gallons used over Time so any huge increase is very significant.

 

Also interesting is that I got my best mileage on 87 octane. Though it was 100% highway for that trip at 80mph.

 

timisw,

Can you guess during what period of times you either had your AC running or your front windo defroster running? (both use the compressor)

Nice chart.

BTW, which stations sell 94 Octane gas?

-Mr. Wigggles

 

Up until now, I was stationed in PA and its been so mild out that the AC was never on. Windows would of been down after around April, but 80% of that driving was under 50mph.

I just now started using AC on the last 2 tanks since finding Augusta my home for 6 months. Probably why that 5/23/04 tank got less than 15. Along with the AC on most of the tank, I did have 4 Marines in the car for a night and we did hit 3 figures about 4 or 5 times during the night saying goodbye to 330i (she was cute but couldnt drive to keep up) and a Acura RSX.

 

And it was a station in Harrisburg PA that had the 94 Octane. They actually had 4 selections. I believe it was a Sunoco, but I could be mistaken. I am no longer there to go back and find out for sure.

I did a web search and Sunoco was the only pump that I could find quickly that did have 94 octane.

 

I'm taking my car tomorrow, I told the service tech that car almost flood twice. And I that heard about a new flash that fixes that problems

 

As far as dates go issued on 5/21 doesnt mean mazda dealers had the disc 5/21.What you guys dont understand is that dealers dont realize the importance of flashes.If the tech there was not a friend i wouldnt have heard about it either.And to all the nasayers :D

 

you are right WTF. thats what he told me today . he had not recived the disc yet. and if i had not read your post last night and ask him about it today he would not have none. thanks for the heads up. and he did not seemed that concerned with flash's.

 

dOva make sure he downloads and puts the one for 5/21/04

 

Too bad we couldnt go to Mazda dealership with the current disk!

Could anyone get a bootleg copy?

Would love to see what computer language they are programming this stuff in or is it just data that is meaningless without the computer system to install it?

 

I talked to one of the techs over at a local dealership. They aren't aware of any new flash since M. Once again, are you sure this is real?

 

As others have said... this forum is often ahead of the dealers and techs. Don't just ask... have them check the system. It has repeatedly been told that dealers had no idea when a new flash became available. People had to get them to check and thus the new ones were found. The only difference between then and now is that the newest ECU flash isn't "official" by the forum yet.

 

Well, I guess I'll ask him to look as I know this tech on a pretty personal level. He's a cool guy and has his own rotary performance shop (Marvelspeed). I didn't ask him to look, but maybe they just haven't gotten it in yet.

 

belive me it is out , but the disk haven't arrived yet ( at my dealer]so they tried to dowload it but was not able yet. i belive it is still m with an update no new letter.