Havard Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Hubby was driving home tonight, put clutch in and car red lined, put back in gear, but then red lined again when put clutch in to change gear. Crawled home on reserve power with DPF light flashing. Any ideas..... Vicki x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Throttle sensor fault perhaps? Are those things fly-by-wire? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Ian Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Hubby was driving home tonight, put clutch in and car red lined, put back in gear, but then red lined again when put clutch in to change gear. Crawled home on reserve power with DPF light flashing. Any ideas..... Vicki x is there a "reset" button somewhere maybe ? or pull a fuse like the ecu reset on a supra ? Cheers -Ian- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 it does sound to me like the ecu has put it in limp mode due to a fault throttle related or possibly exhaust related Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 Throttle sensor fault perhaps? Are those things fly-by-wire? They are fly by wire Gav. This looks like a common fault on the Mazda 6. A mixture of red lining, DPF light horror stories are all over the Mazda forums..... The RAC towed the car away this morning and Mazda will not be able to look at it until Tuesday.......fooking wonderful..... Come back BMW, all is forgiven...... H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 Well got an update from Mazda today....the oil level had exceeded the maximum level and was contaminated with fuel.....but apprently it is "because I don't drive the car correctly":search: They didn't belive that the DPF was flashing without it ever having been lit before and stressed that the diagnostics would show that it had.....when I pressed them on this today I was told that nothing had shown up...that nothing at all was recored and admitted that they don't know how this has happened! The manual says that that if the partiulate matter reaches a certain level and can't clear its self authomatically the DPF light will come on and you should drive the car at 2000 rpm at over 40 km/h for 10 to 15 minutes.......but that light has never come on! I don't want the car back...if I had been driving when it started redlining itself I'm pretty sure I would of ended up in a ditch Gutted. Vicki x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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