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Old 02-15-2008, 10:06 AM
spugeddy spugeddy is offline
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they have that problem too

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Originally Posted by zeke View Post
I just hd a conversation with a friend about their MPV....They recently went on a road trip from TX to GA, and 1/2 way through, the transmission would flare - sounds alot like your description, but at driving speed rather than at idle....He never told me if it surged like that at idle, but he fixed it on the road by installing a new throttle position sensor.

Just a thought.

Good luck!
They have that problem too. The MPV (2003 era) had a Transmission control module, software TSB. To have it flashed and reprogrammed is $96. Mazda called it "shift shock". It has a 1-2 flare, and a 2-3 thunk.
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