Mazda 626 starts drives 2 or 3 miles cuts out. wont restart engine turns over but dosent fire.come back next day starts first time, 2 or 3 miles cuts out wont start

Could be a engine coolant temperature sensor problem .

They also can suffer from losing spark when engine warm ,


" both of these sound like an igniter/ pick-up faults that were common in both distributors. There is some testing for the 1991 dist. , but not much with the 96 dist ( assuming its a 4 cyl)

Most likey this is the cause of your no spark....if the igniter/pick-up is faulty.....it won't tell the coil to spark

Cosmo...Mazda TEch

as whittingehame says these cars have igniter problems you can buy the ignition parts seporatly remove ignitor fords did do a repair kit but mazda didnt so check part for id you may get it cheeper from fords if your local parts guy is helpfull as ford/mazda use common parts