Thanks, that was my hope too, but after driving it around most of the weekend, including motorway driving, it still didn’t spring to life.
Hi B,
Ours stopped working for months and the dealer were no use. They said the battery needed charging even though we had driven nearly 2 hours to get there.
First thing is have you found the screen that tells you why it is not working? If you have and it is the battery showing as the issue try this: open both doors and the boot then disconnect the negative battery terminal and leave it for 15 minutes then re connect.
This has fixed our 30AE three times and a friends 30AE.
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How on earth did you discover that? I’ll give it a go next weekend and report back.
Mines a 30AE too, so fingers crossed. BTW haven’t seen a single 30AE in the wild yet!
Hi B,
I was so frustrated that I thought the old computer help desk suggestion of turn it off and turn it back on seemed worth a try.
The opening the doors and boot first was from an online manual which suggested that the electronics were best served by doing this so I did.
This is good information Workshop Manual | 2016 ND Shop Manual (hexorcism.com)
Please do let us know if it cures yours. Just been overcome by the desire for a bacon sandwich!!!
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I have used Mad Malc’s method of resetting the i-Stop on his recommendation, which cured the issue immediately.
Here is a link to another way of resetting the Mazda i-Stop system without disconnecting the battery, providing it’s a battery “Not ready” fault showing on the screen display, although it’s a bit more long-winded than MM’s method.
Any ND1 owners craving and feeling really, really hurt that they haven’t had the pleasure of using ‘i-stop’ (or i-eloop) on their cars?
I have an ND2 and my i-stop seems to work well, cutting the engine most of the time at lights. However I have never noticed the i-eloop. Does it have any lights etc to say it is working, or is it just something that works away in the background with no advice to the driver necessary (unless perhaps it isn’t working?)
I must admit I’d never cut my engine at the lights. I like to listen to the purr. Do you ever like to do the odd 4K rev blasts while sitting at the lights?
The Mrs’ MINI has stop start, but it gets turned off the moment the car gets turned on.
I have the factory sports exhaust and it makes a really great sound when you first start the car, which is nice and sets you up for a drive. Listening to the engine depends on the mood I am in. sometimes I am in the mood for spirited driving and at those times its nice to hear the engine if you stop. I tend not to turn off the i-stop, but turn the heater control up one and the engine restarts.
But sometimes (not often to be fair) I like to see how many mpg I can get, which is a different type of driving as you can get quite excited by seeing a really high mpg (sometimes over 50!). This is generally when there is traffic around and you have to just follow the normal cars, or if its raining and the hood is up and you just cannot have the same fun…
A bit off-topic as the chap asked for help with his i-stop, but since you ask…
Very happy to have a car with neither. The i-stop should be fairly harmless and not add much weight with the clever way Mazda does it, but the i-eloop is ridiculous, adding cost, weight and complexity for a theoretical 0-1 mpg benefit, as shown by the difference in official fuel consumption figures.
Apart from the capacitor, it needs a special variable-voltage alternator and a DC-DC converter to turn the 25V from the capacitor back to 12V. Maybe the leadfooted oafs who waste far more fuel with their driving style will save that little bit of petrol, but I’m very light on brakes anyway and tend to modulate the accelerator to control my speed so I use most of my momentum already; I suspect I would not see any net benefit at all for lugging the extra weight around. It’s a joke on a car that aims to be light.
The listed weight for the 1.5 has gone up ~50Kg since launch. I wouldn’t swap my carefully used, 18,000 mile, rust-protected, ‘lightweight’ 1.5 for a new one even at no cost.
For a brief moment with the 1.5, Mazda got back to the dimensions, weight and performance of a Mk1 1.8 but with up to date efficiency, comfort and safety, Apart from the obvious rpm uplift for the 2 litre, Mazda, for me, went backwards with the ND2. Maybe it just fell victim to legislation and the need to perform on the idealised emissions tests.
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My ND is a 2018 so doesn’t have i-stop but my CX-5 does. I don’t find it intrusive and if it cuts my emissions and saves me some petrol money that’s fine by me.
One of my pet hates is people who sit idling their cars, especially outside my house, talking to some one for 15 mins and they can’t be bothered to switch the stinky diesel off!
They might say it doesn’t cost much, but if you do it all the time it adds up.
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This was so noticeable in the USA when I last went, as they have no diesels the air quality in towns and cities is so much better. The UK’s push for diesel was a disaster! I don’t mind the i-stop either way but I did when it didn’t work!
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Hi S,
Have a look here MX-5_8EV5-EE-15E_Edition1.indb (mazda.media) Page 210 (Section 4-82)
Hours of endless fun watching things whirl round.
That seems to be 75% “Warnings”. A small section on how something works and then several pages on how to prevent injury by doing it (or doing something by your own stupidity that you could sue Mazda for, which is probably more relevant)…
The person might be celebrating the ‘wonder fuel’ all those in powers may have encourage him to buy, back until about the mid 00s. So he or she might think why not sit warming my car using the wonder fuel, as, after all, that’s what I was incentivised to buy.
And ‘they might say it doesn’t cost much’, but if it’s there money, it’s up to them.
I know. The newer 1.5 is now heavier than my 2L ND1. I guess the soft top 1.5 is not too far away, weight wise, from what the RF 1.5L used to be when launched.
I don’t get it either, sitting outside someones house chatting away and leave the engine running.
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Hi S,
Just checked and if you go to the link and type in top left box 210 you get the correct page.
My sister had a Hyundai with stop/start and she did a lot of short journeys. It kept flattening the battery so it wouldn’t start and she gave up with it and traded it in.
Like what many other people have said in this thread, there are many things that will inhibit the stop/start on the MX5. This is possibly because the MX5 has a relatively small battery and cannot cope with being discharged with many of the ancillaries functioning and the engine turned off. If my car has been on a number of short runs it tends to inhibit the function of the stop/start.
Does it flatten it in that case even if you turn it off each time? Meaning the fact that the car has it, and you do short journeys, means it’s more at risk to battery flatten whether the system is off OR on?