Limp mode

Asked by Rcox1969 Feb 08, 2019 at 09:30 PM about the 2004 Mazda RX-8 RWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

My car will run fine then out of the blue it will
not let rpms go above 3000 .so I pull over
and restart and sometimes it's better and
sometimes it won't start at all, need help
please

1 Answer

sounds like an omp issue, do you have the splash guard on your car? if it got wet the omp could very much be the issue.

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