2002 Mazda Protege es review from North America

I had owned the car for only 2 weeks when it stalled at a red light. It is an odd stall though. The car idles fine while sitting at a stop, but as soon as you remove your foot from the break (to put it on the accelerator and go) the car stalls. You have to put it in park or neutral and start it again and it will start immediately and run fine. It has done this about 8-10 times in the 4 years I have owned it. Every time I take it in after this happens the dealership says that the computer is not recording the stall, nor is is "throwing" any codes as to what the reason for the stall is. They never replace any parts. Today 4 years after the very first stall it is in the shop again and they will be replacing the idle control valve. This after years of telling me to replace the spark plugs, vacuum clean the engine and multiple other costly and pointless maintenance items. We will see if it will work.

I love my car, I just wish it would not stall.