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Yes the 3 lights are on. When I said it hadn’t come on I meant I haven’t felt the ABS activate since disconnecting the sensor. Except last night when I felt the ABS come on even though all of those lights are on. I assumed ABS was off.

Tonight the ABS came on. I thought it was disabled? The ABS light, traction light, and DSC lights are all on. It hasn’t come on since I disconnected the front passenger wheel speed sensor, as where previously it’d come on most of the time. I disconnected that sensor because that’s the one that...

Thanks. I believe you. None of it makes sense to me :) I wonder if the ABS issue was caused by the same thing, and maybe I didn’t even need to unplug the sensor… But it’s been fun to drive. Simply turning off DSC feels different from this. Could it be that the alternator was affecting...

I am no electronics expert by any means. I am simply having trouble seeing how a weak alternator can affect the operation of something like the door lights coming on/off without the key in the ignition, and with the battery testing good. The only other thing I did was disconnect the wheel speed...

Pondering this further, it seems to make more sense that the ABS issue (a short?) caused the other issues, but I’m not sure if that is actually feasible. Anyway, my voltage no longer drops at higher RPMs. Maybe this is my imagination, but the car feels faster. My tires squeal a bit now, even in...

I replaced the alternator and belt tensioner today (what a pain…!). I also quickly disconnected one wheel speed sensor before I put the wheel back on just because I was sick of the ABS coming on. Anyway, all of my other electrical issues are fixed now. So, either the alternator fixed them or...

Well I ended up getting the battery tested and it was good, and today I just replaced the alternator and belt tensioner (both used). My electric issues are fixed. However, I had also been having an ABS issue so I disconnected the wheel speed sensor so that it’d stop coming on. So I’m not sure...

Battery tested good at Advance Auto. I got a used alternator and tensioner and a new belt from someone off eBay. I’m aiming to install those on Tues. Hopefully that’ll at least fix the high RPM voltage drop, and maybe my other issues as well. Yet another issue I noticed with my car is that...

I’m actually having other electrical issues too. But the ABS issue happened months earlier so I didn’t see it as related. Also, for a while I’ve been getting a CEL for low voltage if I do WOT in 2nd or 3rd gear for more than 4 seconds. I monitored the voltage and it drops at higher RPMs. I’ve...

Adding to my list of issues (I’m thinking they’re related)… For a while ABS was activating occasionally when I was slowed down from a stop, like 5mph or less. It’s continued to get increasingly frequent and intense, and yesterday it even came on when I was driving at 35mph with my foot on the...

It misfired again at start up. And the misfires were more severe than I was having previously. They cleared up after a while and then the car drove fine. But according to my scan tool there were 424 misfires in the “last/current driving cycle”, which was about 5 min/2 miles of driving before...

Ok, I was able to replace the injector. Way dirtier than I've seen any of my injectors before. When I started it up it misfired enough to bring up the CEL. It actually continued to misfire even while it warmed up (normally the misfires are gone after maybe a couple of minutes). After those...

I can get about 45° of turn with the wrench. I’m not sure if it’s OEM though.

I ended up returning the belt and putting on the old one. The belt seems ok enough, I was just thinking I’d put on a new one when I had the belt off.

Yes that’s what I’ve been doing. I have a narrow ratcheting wrench which fits. The movement of the tensioner is at the max but there just isn’t enough slack to get the belt on the power steering pulley. Perhaps I should better measure the belts, but it does say the same part number on both.

To add to my list of questions… I just got a replacement serpentine belt, the same that was already on there. Dayco, same part number. I tried really hard to get the new belt on but I can’t seem to. I do the power steering pump last. I’ve done the older belt a few times without issue. Though...

It was raining so I didn’t get to do any work on the car. Hopefully it’ll be good weather tomorrow.

Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll do those later today. I remembered I had paid for the extended Mazda diagnostics with ODB Fusion. I’m not entirely sure how to use the extended diagnostics, but I noticed it has the BCM and various other things. I did find codes U0100 and U0121 in there...

The hazards come on but don’t blink. Like the turn signals. I know of the one white plastic ground, the HPFP ground, and the one over by the power steering pump. Where are the others? Is there one near the starter? If so, I replaced the starter a couple of months ago and maybe I didn’t tighten...

One weird thing is that if I activate the turn signal the dash light for the other side sometimes also lights up, and when that happens usually it is dimmer than the correct side.