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- Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:17 pm
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
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Well at last the repair side of the saga is over. The car now has a new coil pack and runs sweetly. John Andrew Ford and Mazda even removed the Camshaft Sensor that they tried earlier and did not charge me for it. Some places would have left it on and charged for it regardless of it not fixing the f...
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:40 pm
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
Friday 17th July. Just had a phone call from John Andrew Ford & Mazda. They have got the car running. They borrowed some coil packs from an auto electrician and away it went. So it's not the ECU after all and the search is on for reasonably priced replacements. These coils packs have the 4 wire plug...
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:41 pm
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
Hi again huys I've been up in Northland for a couple of days, so haven't had much of a chance to reply on here. My ECU is: BPF3 18 881 Underneath it has: 0797004571 That was read to me over the phone by the foreman at John Andrew Ford & Mazda. He did emphasise the 'F' for Freddy, so I haven't confus...
- Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:59 am
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
Latest bulletin: The Camshaft Position Sensor has been fitted! But the car still has the same condition. It's not fixed. My thoughts now are that when VTNZ removed the Fuel Injection fuse and subsequently refitted it, at least one of these operations was done with the ignition left 'ON' and it spike...
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:23 pm
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
Thanks Trevor, I have had similar thoughts myself. UPDATE: Tuesday 14th July. Mazda dealer thinks that the Camshaft Position Sensor is faulty. A new one cannot be located in NZ or Australia and second-hand ones don't seem to exist, so we have gone for a new Aftermarket sensor, price $253. I assume t...
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:39 pm
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:05 am
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
The consensus of opinion now seems to lean toward the coils having been fried on my car and I am thinking that myself now, all things considered. One thing still puzzles me, why does it start up and run for a few seconds? Is there some way that perhaps the igniter(s) get triggered on initial start t...
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:39 am
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
Thanks for the latest replies. Euen, thank you for the offer of spare coils to try. I would like to do that please. I live in West Harbour, but my current job takes me all over Auckland most days, so pick-up would not be a problem. Can you contact me please and we can sort out details. The forum won...
- Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:36 pm
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
Thanks Stevo and sprtsa. I agree with what you say, VTNZ have responsibility for the problem, however, their stance was "It's not anything we have done" so I knew that if I left the car there, they would do nothing but maybe push it in and out each day (their primary function being to do WOFs on car...
- Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:29 pm
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
- Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:18 pm
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
Thanks for the latest replies. However, my car definitely does not have an igniter in that location. In between the fuse box and that little emission thingy with the vac pipes on it, there is just an empty bracket with two (screw) holes in it. Presumably this is where an igniter would fit but I thin...
- Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:07 am
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
I think you are right, but when I challenged them on the spark plug removal two of them said in unison; "We don't remove spark plugs." Then one of the guys said; "We have a machine with a lead that clips to one of the spark plug leads and then we crank the engine and it takes a reading of all cylind...
- Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:50 pm
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
- Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:15 pm
- Forum: MX5 Electrical, Audio, Alarms & Electronics
- Topic: 1993 MX5 starts and then dies
- Replies: 48
- Views: 61442
1993 MX5 starts and then dies
I have a 1993 MX5 1.8 manual. I took it for a pre-purchase inspection for a potential buyer and after they had performed the compression test it would only run for 2 to 3 seconds and then die. They told me that they had removed the 'Fuel Injection' fuse prior to performing the test, and that they do...