Hi All,
I just changed both of my coil packs yesterday in my 2003 Protege. And since then my car has ran worse..whenever i start moving from a stop the car becomes extremely jerky (it feels like i'm a 10 year old learning how to drive a stick) my car is automatic. Once i'm over 3500 RPMs the car seems to ride pretty smooth. Please helppppp

 

i had the same problem , if your using platinum plugs take them out and put in new copper plugs the ones recommended for the 2.0l engine problem solved for me and many others..

 

Sorry for the really late reply! (I totally forgot about this forum)

I wound up placing one of the old coil packs back in the car and the car ran great again. (Maybe one of the new ones were faulty?)

Recently I had the same issue happen. My father in-law is one of those "Don't touch your car, bring it to Tires Plus and you can put it on my credit card and then pay me later" Type people. They wound up replacing my plugs, wires.. and did an induction?

I picked my car up and 5 miles later it started running like complete crap,having to power break at red lights to keep from stalling. I took the car BACK to Tires Plus and then they replaced both coil packs and now the car is running fine. (Keep in mind, i also told them that it's probably my coil packs when i dropped the car off)

Such a cluster ****..and about 450 bucks later.

 

What brand are the coil packs you installed?

 

They were OEM from Mazda. What i'm thinking is that maybe the stock one that i originally took out, then placed back in finally went bad, and then Tires Plus just replaced both of them.