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First of all, good morning every one TGIF.

Any hwo i have a quick question. as you may all know i had a Stuck Valve (secondary stuck valve) issue a month ago, which caused loss of power. So i did the Engine Clean up, got rid of the problem.


but i still have time to time a loss of power and loud noises under the car (cat area) when i have these issues.. told the dealership yester day these problems that i am hving. So they did a flash update, it didnt fix my problem. So he tells me to leave the car and they will do a diag test. but if they dotn find any problems, they will charge me 114.00. Even though if the TSB it says, do the flash update if this does not fix the problem, (which it didnt) check the Cat.

so my question is ,even though i dont have a check engine light on, does my error message that i recieved a month ago store into the PCM memory? so i can point to them that this did occur? I have already callled mazdausa, because i feel taht my dealership didnt take the right procedures on checking my car. So t hey can notate

 

As far as handling the dealership I think you are doing the right thing.

They aren't doing their jobs and they simply are coming up with any excuse to get out of doing their jobs.

Did they check the cat? If not maybe you should check the cat. Remember many people never had their catalytic converter even cause a CEL while it was completely destroyed.

I think cleaning out the engine with the catalytic converter still connected has a good chance of damaging it. Plus if you're engine is carboned up, the catalytic converter can't be doing too well.

I'll be pulling mine off next weekend because I have the exact same sound coming from the exact same spot.

Edit: If my catalytic converter is bad I just might bap bap bap to the dealer with the catalytic converter sitting in my seat.

 

tell them u flood ur engine twice, they will have to pull the Cat down and look at it visually.