Hello.
It had happened a while ago now and my car been stuck at the driveway ever since.
In August I had MOT done and asked to replace rotors and brake pads. Upon collection, the mechanic said that one of the front calipers sticks in and would need to be replaced soon. I never had any problem with that before so it was a surprise.. I didnt have time to talk that much as i was in a hurry to the airport. On my way back home I really felt the lack of power and the car would run heavily and stop almost instantly. Upon arrival i felt burnt material and right hand side on the front was piping hot.
I got back home from holiday and decided to check on the case. Took another test drive, still same. Done basic check up and the brake fluid reservoir appeared to be over-flown. I drained the excess, spent some time on pressing the brakes, took another drive, on the following day was all fine. I was happy and decided to never visit that scammer anymore... But back to the case.
Probably a few days to a week later while i was heading to work i noticed that the engine temperature indicator rose up almost to the top, i stopped the car on the close by parking and it appeared that all of my cooling liquid disappeared (as a still young driver i didn't connect the dots of the fact that my AC wouldn't pick up the temperature).
I refilled the radiator, reservoir, the heating worked i was happy.
Next day on my way back from work i noticed again, lack of power, but this time when the engine was warm and a new symptom picked up - erratic idle.
I tried to check on the erratic idle with my cousin, so we checked the air intake, air filters. Even when disconnected, nothing changed. After a while, a cloud of thick smoke that smelled of the oil appeared.
I started doing the research online on what may have happened. Some say that its a blown gasket and its quite expensive to fix, although there is a solution that is said to fix the holes in the seals just by pouring it into the radiator and running it for a while. If that was the case that oil got into the sparkglows, I wanted to drain all the oil from the chambers before doing so however, another problem appeared... I have no idea how to get in there.
Many of the youtube videos about mazdas get the petrol version of the engine which is not helpful in my case, as they have screws to take out the spark plugs. My connectors/coils wont even move.
I took a couple of pictures of how it looks like and im hoping maybe you can bring me a little of the light so i can leave that dark tunnel and maybe you could instruct me on how to do such operation on the engine? if these are not sufficient, i can provide you with more and more detailed ones.
Thank you in advance