Brakes went out
 

Luckily that building caught me.

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/car-...tl-564714.html

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/3876/58754775.jpg

Someone has a grudge....

Brakes "went out" on a less than 4 year old car? I doubt it.

we all know girls don't know the gas pedal from the brake pedal

lolol

Usually these kind of people have their accidents on the way home from the "package" store.

Perhaps her boyfriend now her ex.

I guess she thought it was a drive-thru package store?

Sounds like a cheesy name for a medical marijuana store.

When will GM fine Mazda for this brake problem which they knowingly perpetuated?

On a lighter note, my throttle stuck in 1st gear and after some tire smoke and noise, I turned the car off. The police were not happy with me and made sure to watch me push the car off the road before they got out, questioned me, and threatened me with a citation.

Holy chit, how'd you do that?

That happened to me when I propped open the throttle body to do a leakdown test. I took the prop out but didn't see that the throttle was somehow stuck in the open position locked. My neighbors looked at me funny when I started up the car and it shot to redline. :laugh:

For some reason the actual throttle assembly was stuck open and after whacking it its decided to function normally. I lubed it up and hopefully that fixes it. It also made my tach not work and the needle was pointing down...so I had to open it up and twist it back around.

That really woke me up. The cop threatened to write an exhibition of acceleration citation, then another cop showed up. Finally they decided to let me out of the 20-questions game and go back to pushing my car while they ran radar because that is what the police are for, not serving or protecting.

It's a common term for liquor store in some places.

Well, she's a woman so she already has a history of mental illness.

Ah damn again! Why she got to hit the ATL liquor store like that?

Similar thing happened to me. When I first built my sideways intake mani the progressive linkage on the TB hit something and got jammed wide open. shutting the car off while it's bouncing off the rev limiter made the tach go the wrong way and zero out pointing down. Like you I had to take the cluster apart adn spin the needle around.

No cops though.

How bout "this is the second time the woman crashed her car into the store"???

If at first you don't succeed, lol

Drove miata all day today and went to start it up after work and as I put the key in the ignition and turned it to acc on the tach jumped to red line and back and then rested in its current position (6 o clock).

Wondering if your tach looked like the following before I disassemble mine and reposition the needle. Only recent mod is COPS but I took apart the ignitor, to verify the white tach wire was still connected and it is.

EDIT : Tach works in tunerstudio


Car off / key out of ignition

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Car off / key in ignition in acc on position

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car on

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yep that's exactly what mine looked like.

Thanks, spun tach needle counter clockwise and problem solved... temporarily. The tach needle spiked 0 to 7k again this morning as I went to start the car (acc on position) but thankfully it went back to 0. Something screwy is going on with my COPs that im yet to figure out.