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Question: My Mazda 3 is hard to keep running after fueling.

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dfaulk, Debary, FL, February 22, 2012, 16:54
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I have to keep the peddle to the floor for about 10 secs for it to keep runnng no problems any other time

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    patrick mannion from Greg Solow's Engine Room, February 22, 2012, 21:04
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    May have a sticking evaporative Emission control valve allowing refueling gas vapors to be pushed into the intake manifold on refueling.Dealer or a shop used to working on Mazda may have seen this problem before on the Mazda 3, I don't work on enough of the 3 to say it is a pattern failure.

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