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davmcn
07-05-2015, 06:23 PM
Hi

I have a quick few questions I'd like to get people's opinions on....


I had a service done at Mazda 10 days ago, just a regular oil change.

1) They said my injectors were dirty and they need to clean them out.
2) Transmission oil needs to be changed ( doing it next week)

On friday night, I was driving home from work, and I had one bar left, and the trip computer said I had around 10km left to empty which is fine as the gas station was about 1.5KM away. All of a sudden, the engine cuts out, and i'm out of gas with one bar left. I pull over and try to restart, engine starts fine... try to put into drive and go.... engine dies. Call Mazda, they show up ~20 minutes later and tow me to a gas station and I fill up. Everything seemed to be fine until today, I went to go and fill the spray liquid, and I noticed before pouring it in, that just below the coolant reservoir there's a huge splash of something all the way down onto the car body. I'm not sure if it's just Mazda over doing their greasing the bolts or whatever or if it's something that is leaking... (Since this loss of gas, the car has been quite jerky in the gears, not sure if that's just to do with the oil change that's needed or it's something else... ?)


Any opinions, and is the

sarujo
07-06-2015, 12:17 AM
What year is the car? Mileage? Manual transmission? Try and post some image of the "splash".

r4BBiT
07-06-2015, 12:52 PM
You shouldn't let the gas the so low that your engine stalls; that's not good for the fuel pump.

nepal1344
07-08-2015, 07:51 AM
The only fluids I can think of on that side of the car is the passenger motor mount, the coolant reservoir, power steering reservoir, and possibly engine oil if the end case seal went. If all the reservoirs look full then my best guess is the passenger motor mount and that would explain harsher shifts but would not explain the stalling.

Just a thought since we don't have a picture of leak.

Zuluwun
07-08-2015, 02:15 PM
+1 for passenger motor mount causing that "splash".