Full Transmission Replacement

[Seabright]

Doesn't sound good

We've seen several 2016 CX-5's in this community with several thousand miles on it having automatic transmission replacement. Consider the minimum number of CX-5 owners in here among all CX-5 owners in the US, I can smell there're lots more having the same problem. My guess is there was a batch of transmission parts having the quality issues which cause the transmission to fail. This is not a good feeling for us with many transmission replacements at such a early stage for 2016 CX-5's! I can feel your pain and hope you still have confidence with quality and reliability on Mazda's.

This is troubling. Reminds me of the Acura TL transmission issues in 2000 - 2003. I was hoping to avoid dealing with it again. However, that was a bad design issue. This may be something else, but it would be good to know that Mazda can fix the issue, whatever it is.

 

[CX5_Pete]

Do I need another fun car to drive?



I bought it for reliability - so far I've had to have a rim replaced for being manufactured out of balance, I've had to have the leather replaced on one seat because of splitting, I've had to have the motor replaced on the drivers seat for burning up, then the recall on the fuel thingy and now a full transmission replacement.

I bought it because I liked it. Not for any other reason. If I have the means to get a new car every month - why not if it floats my boat?

I tried the Mercedes GLA250 and hated it, sold it with less than 1000 miles on it to get the CX5 and now flipping again.

Weird part - before the Mercedes I had 3 commuter Honda civics which were all driven way past 120-180K.

I know a general contractor who owns nothing but Prii. He takes on to jobsites and beats the hell out of them. He still has his first one going on 240K on 2nd motor and 2nd set of batteries. On the 2nd gen, he didn't have to replace the brake pads till about 140K miles. Battery went out at 180,000 miles and motor started burning oil. If reliability and low of cost of ownerhsip is what you want can't go wrong with a Prius...

 

[Tccox]

Build date on mine is 08/15. Mines still performing flawlessly but only has 4000 miles. Hoping it's just a few early 2016s.

 

[DBLXX]

It literally came out of nowhere last Saturday when I was packing to go fishing down the block.

7 days later - it's gotten worse each day.

 

[Woodys2718]

My mind continues to be boggled by people who bought CX-5's trading them on a whim for vehicles that offer COMPLETELY different capabilities. Why on earth would you bother with a CX-5 if all you need is a little car? Or a big truck? Etc?

Lifestyles, wants and needs change dude!

 

[Kedis82ZE8]

I don't think there is any mechanical difference in the transmission between 2016 and 2013-2015 models.

Maybe the sport mode programming is causing some grief on a few of the 16+ models?

 

[fdew]

Most popular and reliable electric car ever made to date - not so sure I consider it a joke.

But I respect your opinion.

I'm finished with Mazda.

Well the Prius is popular and reliable, and it has a fascinating drive train but electric? No. It runs on Gasoline Gasoline runs the engine that powers the wheels and that charges the batteries. If you get the new Prime you can charge it with electricity made somewhere else and drive about 22 miles without using gasoline.

 

[hek8560]

Well the Prius is popular and reliable, and it has a fascinating drive train but electric? No. It runs on Gasoline Gasoline runs the engine that powers the wheels and that charges the batteries. If you get the new Prime you can charge it with electricity made somewhere else and drive about 22 miles without using gasoline.

I do get a Tesla Model 3 than a Prius, if I have to choose between them. The con is that you have to wait for almost a year to get your car if you order now, so I think it will be better to keep CX-5 until the car arrive.

 

[yrwei52]

Well the Prius is popular and reliable, and it has a fascinating drive train but electric? No. It runs on Gasoline Gasoline runs the engine that powers the wheels and that charges the batteries. If you get the new Prime you can charge it with electricity made somewhere else and drive about 22 miles without using gasoline.

I got feeling you've never driven a Prius. Even in first gen it can be driven in full electric mode with electric motor, only in short distance of course.

 

[DBLXX]

MFG Date 5/15

 

[DBLXX]

The Prius doesn't run on partial and sometimes all electric?

FYI - that has incorrect all over it.

 

[fdew]

I got feeling you've never driven a Prius. Even in first gen it can be driven in full electric mode with electric motor, only in short distance of course.

The Prius can be driven short distances using the electric motor. That motor is run bu batteries that are charged by the same motor acting as a generator and that generator is turned using a gasoline engine.

In other words, in order to drive your Prius you need to buy Gas.

 

[yrwei52]

I do get a Tesla Model 3 than a Prius, if I have to choose between them. The con is that you have to wait for almost a year to get your car if you order now, so I think it will be better to keep CX-5 until the car arrive.

Never been a Tesla fan and never bought the hype of the Tesla. Do a research and you'll see how many problems Tesla cars have. Saw an article a while ago that he neeed to stop by at a charging station for a trip between LA and SF for two hours to get his battery fully charged even though his Tesla Model S has $10K Supercharger option! I heard the price and charging time have been coming down, but it's still a hassle.

Tesla Model 3 for $30K??? Go to Tesla dealer (if you can find one) and check out the price! I heard the average selling price with the options is $60K! Thank you very much! Of course people in cold weather region will soon find out the driving range will be severely shortened when winter is coming.

I can never understand the hype of the electrical cars. Unless there is a breakthrough on battery technology, driving distance, cold weather, and charging time will always be the issue.

Zero emissions? Electrical cars simply transfer the emissions from vehicles to electrical power plants! For those countries who unfortunately don't have enough natural energy and have to rely on nuclear power that would have created more headaches to clean up the nuclear waste. And the US is not much better as our power plants mostly are coal powered which usually is the dirtiest way to generate electrical power.

 

[hek8560]

Never been a Tesla fan and never bought the hype of the Tesla. Do a research and you'll see how many problems Tesla cars have. Saw an article a while ago that he neeed to stop by at a charging station for a trip between LA and SF for two hours to get his battery fully charged even though his Tesla Model S has $10K Supercharger option! I heard the price and charging time have been coming down, but it's still a hassle.

Tesla Model 3 for $30K??? Go to Tesla dealer (if you can find one) and check out the price! I heard the average selling price with the options is $60K! Thank you very much! Of course people in cold weather region will soon find out the driving range will be severely shortened when winter is coming.

I can never understand the hype of the electrical cars. Unless there is a breakthrough on battery technology, driving distance, cold weather, and charging time will always be the issue.

Zero emissions? Electrical cars simply transfer the emissions from vehicles to electrical power plants! For those countries who unfortunately don't have enough natural energy and have to rely on nuclear power that would have created more headaches to clean up the nuclear waste. And the US is not much better as our power plants mostly are coal powered which usually is the dirtiest way to generate electrical power.

The new MODEL 3 MSRP is 35,000, even standard model will have auto pilot. Even in my small town in central California, now have three charging stations. Tesla supercharging stations charge with up to 120 kW of power, or up to 16 times as fast as public charging stations; they take about 20 minutes to charge to 50%, 40 minutes to charge to 80%, and 75 minutes to 100%. Emission from power plant is something that we still have even without electrical car, we use power all the time.

 

[davesxx01]

Dude! A Prius, a Vette, and a BMW? Now that's a selection!

Sorry to hear about the trans woes. Still loving mine,,,, but only 3K on the clock!

 

[Kedis82ZE8]

This is troubling. Reminds me of the Acura TL transmission issues in 2000 - 2003. I was hoping to avoid dealing with it again. However, that was a bad design issue. This may be something else, but it would be good to know that Mazda can fix the issue, whatever it is.

I remember that era... you'd be hearing about a whole lot more failures if this was in any way comparable. I'll post a poll. I'm just not sensing a widespread problem here. I would expect to hear a lot more if there was a significant issue. IIRC... those Acura failures readily showed up in the Consumer Reports surveys in the day. I haven't see anything in the CU surveys to indicate a problem with CX-5 in that area. Remember... these are simply subscriber based feedback surveys on vehicle problems.

 

[Kedis82ZE8]

I placed a poll here

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/show...-My-CX-5-transmission-failed-and-was-replaced

 

[Lbear]

MFG Date 5/15

May 2015

I don't have any issues but mine has an 8/15 August 2015 manufacturing date.

Who else had a failure? I would be interested to see what date it was manufactured...

 

[craigo]

Going by various posts here, seems like more 2016 transmissions have been replaced than all 2013-2015s combined.

 

[yrwei52]

The new MODEL 3 MSRP is 35,000, even standard model will have auto pilot. Even in my small town in central California, now have three charging stations. Tesla supercharging stations charge with up to 120 kW of power, or up to 16 times as fast as public charging stations; they takee to 80%, and 75 minutes to 100%. Emission from power plant is something that we still have even without electrical car, we use power all the time.

As I said, go to a Tesla dealer near you and try to find or order a Model 3 for $35K! The average selling price for Model 3 is over $60K with all the options you can't refuse. While at Tesla dealer, make sure to ask the price for the Supercharger option! Since you seem living in the great Tesla state of California without any cold weather, try to drive your Model 3 from LA to SF and it forces you to stop at a Supercharging station for 75 minutes. Yeah, that's relaxing ...

The more cars switched to electrical, the more coal and oil get burned to generate more electricity, and the more emmisions need to be taken care of. Not to mention states or countries may have to build more power plants to cover increasing power usage from electrical cars! Yean, you may see the metropolitan area is getting cleaner, but you transferred emissions to power plants. If you look at the earth as a whole, the emissions generated are about the same unless you pay even more to improve those aging US coal power plants to have better emission controls. And we've not mentioned many countries have to use nuclear power plants and they're having problems to handle those unclear wastes.