1998 Mazda 323 GXi from UK and Ireland - Comments

2nd Oct 2003, 03:39

"It's a great car. Mazda really got the design right"

What things have gone wrong with the car?

The steering wheel grip feels like it has unglued itself from the metal, so it twists in your hands.

When in neutral (briefly) approaching a roundabout (for example) it very occasionally cuts out.

One of the parcel shelf clips has broken.

Not a lot wrong with it at all.

General comments?


9th Jul 2005, 12:34

I've just bought a 323 and was interested in your comment about it cutting out. It seems, as you say, to drop low on the revs when, for example, when in neutral and coming to a stop. I was wondering if this is a fault or are they all the same?Any feedback would be most welcome.Thanks.


14th Feb 2009, 12:31

My '96 model did this same thing near the end of it's life (though that was due to a separate incident.. silly person at a junction). I had allowed my water pump to fail and the engine overheated badly. It was never quite the same after this.

I also think the alternator or battery was going. This I suspected was part of the cause of this rev-drop. I'm no expert but it seemed the power supply problems I seemed to get slightly preceded this rev-loss problem.

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