2005 Mazda 3 What's wrong with my car?

Tiny
REBECCA915
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  • 2005 MAZDA 3
  • 4 CYL
  • FWD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 74,000 MILES
My 2005 mazda 3 had a very rough idle yesterday in traffic, along with a blinking check engine light, and nasty smoke coming out of the tail pipe. Today, the dealer mechanic told me the computer is blown & I must replace it. My car has 74,000 miles, isn't that a bit early for the computer to be dying?

The computer code is p0302 misfire on cylinder #2.

Should I spend $800 on the used computer & labor? They said even if I don't have the work done, I owe $160 for the time they've already spent on the car. I don't know what to do.
Friday, May 28th, 2010 AT 3:23 PM

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Tiny
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Hi Rebecca915, Welcome to 2carpros and TY for the donation

You're being zipped here tell them not to replace the computer and for them to fix the misfire at cylinder no.2 -basic checks on this problem is the sparkplug, compression and injector.

The mechanic, did he tell you the reason why -how the computer got blown? I find this hard to believe
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Friday, May 28th, 2010 AT 6:17 PM

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