general problems of the 2000 Mazda Protege

Three problems related to power train have been reported for the 2000 Mazda Protege. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2000 Mazda Protege based on all problems reported for the 2000 Protege.

1 Power Train problem

Failure Date: 09/27/2012

The contact owns a 2000 Mazda Protege. The contact stated that the vehicle engine took a long time to start up. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who diagnosed that the power control module was defective and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure and current mileage was 138,000.

2 Power Train problem

Failure Date: 11/01/2004

Re defective transmission on 2000 Mazda Protege, had two transmissions fail in 71,000 miles. This was the consumer's daughter's vehicle.

3 Power Train problem

When driving speedometer reading goes from 60 to 0 still with forward movement, causing vehicle to jerk forward/ hesitate also, consumer noted overdrive button flashes off and on the instrument panel. Consumer has contacted dealer, dealer has replaced the transmission and also a computer chip, problem still occur. Please provide any further details.




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