Enough is enough
 

I've had it!! I can't stand the rattle from my engine anymore!!! It drives me insane!!! First I thought because it was cold. Today the weather was 25 degrees and it's still doing it. People are staring at me when I'm driving.. it's embarrassing!!!!!!

Looks like I'm gonna have to go to Mazda (again) and have a fit(again). Don't get me wrong, I love the car and Mazda but this is ridiculous. It's brand new and I'm having trouble with it already :(

Did anyone with the same prob got an answer from Mazda??

there is a temorary fix but your engine light will turn on

open your hood and at your top left you should see a white plug and a green plug....unplug the green one

I guess I could.. but if anything happens to my ride after, wouldn't the warranty be void??

Can't afford to pay the repairs... especially when it's a new car!

if something does go wrong just plug it back in and play stupid with the techs....or you could go the expensive route like i did and get a remote starter/alarm....and let your engine warm up

there HAS to be a fix somehow! I'm gonna go to Mazda and let them do it.

I can be a bitch with these guys sometimes. Being a girl, I have to be .. otherwise they just laugh in your face!

one of these days i'll have to here for myself this engine rattle with my own ears...cause mine isn't that noisy...hell my parents 98 tercel is more noisier on startup then mine

do you have a CAI or a short ram intake?

I haven't done anything under the hood.. everything is still stock!

If you're driving by the airport one day, stop by my work.. you'll see how loud this thing is.. not funny!

i notice this too, but i just ignore it.

doesn't really bother me, i just crank up the radio if i need too.

but let us all know if you do get the dealer to fix it, so the rest of us can have it done as well.

you should get a after market intake anyways if you got the extra cash...engine runs quieter and when you floor it, it sounds awsome!

Does this engine rattle problem just plague some P5's? I never encountered such a problem with the stock intake and even an aftermarket one. Mine's a Canadian P5, is the US one somehow a bit different in terms of drivetrain I may not know of?

the rattle is not from the intake (i think), but from some part of the engine.

nightowl is saying that it is worth getting an intake if you have the cash for one.

don't thinkso...her's is a canadian one too..strange that this only happens to some and not others

I joined this group/forum earlier today and found out I was not alone with the engine rattle problem but ... no one has mentioned the little surge in acceleration you get along with the rattle at 2800rpm.

Does this happen to y'all too ???

I've noticed the surge in accell quite a bit, but as for the rattle I haven't noticed much of that. My car almost sounds like a diesel when it's idling (not nearly so loud though...) I just i don't notice it much because my old beretta knocked like an SOB when I first started it...

I get no rattles or surges with mine - It's an early car (June of '01) with 6,000 miles.

Don