So im glad to find a more active forum finally to start helping me with some issues that has been plaqueing my 98' 323. Its the base model, so nothing fancy here.
So let me start with some issues;
First issue is some possible miss firing. I am still not certain if it is miss firing but it sounds like. Happens primarily one cold starts on mostly cold mornings; starts up right away and sounds like one or two cylindays is miss firing for about 5-10 seconds then completely goes away. After I let the car warm up and the RPM's go down after bout a minute, drives fine with out any issues.
It use to do it before while I was driving on the freeway, and randomly. But found out my oil was horribly low so filled it up, as well as getting new plugs and it went away. But this miss firing seems to be for a different reason
Second one is my seat belt, its broken as far as I can figure. Locked up one day and after fiddling with it, it now doesn't spool back up so I have tons of slack on my seat belt. Obviously this is a serious safety concern to myself and I have gone around junk yards and a place the specializes in older Mazda cars, and still found nothing. So was curious if anyone knew of a good site that would have what I need, and if it something I should take to a shop to install.
Third and final are Struts. They are stiff as all hell and obviously dieing out, Les Schwab qouted me about $700. So alternatives? Preferably ones that are a lot cheaper, or is this a thing that is going to be expensive unless I have the knowledge and tools to do it myself.
Beyond that I got new tires and a new CV Joint/drive shafts and drives much smoother. Transmission still in awesome shape and the clutch as well. Car has a bunch of electrical issues that are not major concern but I wana get fixed (Stereo needs to be replaced, re defrost doesnt work).
So let me start with some issues;
First issue is some possible miss firing. I am still not certain if it is miss firing but it sounds like. Happens primarily one cold starts on mostly cold mornings; starts up right away and sounds like one or two cylindays is miss firing for about 5-10 seconds then completely goes away. After I let the car warm up and the RPM's go down after bout a minute, drives fine with out any issues.
It use to do it before while I was driving on the freeway, and randomly. But found out my oil was horribly low so filled it up, as well as getting new plugs and it went away. But this miss firing seems to be for a different reason
Second one is my seat belt, its broken as far as I can figure. Locked up one day and after fiddling with it, it now doesn't spool back up so I have tons of slack on my seat belt. Obviously this is a serious safety concern to myself and I have gone around junk yards and a place the specializes in older Mazda cars, and still found nothing. So was curious if anyone knew of a good site that would have what I need, and if it something I should take to a shop to install.
Third and final are Struts. They are stiff as all hell and obviously dieing out, Les Schwab qouted me about $700. So alternatives? Preferably ones that are a lot cheaper, or is this a thing that is going to be expensive unless I have the knowledge and tools to do it myself.
Beyond that I got new tires and a new CV Joint/drive shafts and drives much smoother. Transmission still in awesome shape and the clutch as well. Car has a bunch of electrical issues that are not major concern but I wana get fixed (Stereo needs to be replaced, re defrost doesnt work).
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