- :
- Plano, Texas, USA
You use TrueDelta data but others and I use NHTSA data. Just like those posts we saw here for 2016 transmission problems, we see significant more number of complaints on transmission for 2016 CX-5 at NHTSA website, especially comparing to other major competitors with 3 times more volumes than CX-5's in the US.According to TrueDelta, the CX-5 has fairly good reliability.
I think you're referring post #3 in this thread:I don't think anyone can "smell" a problem in the data . . . unless it's on the bottom of their shoe. The evidence is either there, or it isn't. In this case, I think it isn't. That doesn't mean there's no problem, and certainly the owners who've had to replace transmissions under warranty certainly had problems! But to say you can smell a problem here is trusting intuition, which is notoriously unreliable except in specific situations - deep experience with plenty of rapid feedback to allow learning from that experience.
Otherwise, intuition is a lot of BS, frankly. People use it to fool themselves into thinking they know something when they don't. Check it out in Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow".
And post #137I 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.
So even Mazda has admitted certain transmission problems on 2016 CX-5 which exactly matched what I said earlier. Yeah my "intuition" may be wrong sometimes, but this time it stands.Mazda USA says there was a part problem in some of the early 2016 6 speed transmissions that was rectified in product builds on or after August. Perhaps there are other gremlins lurking, but this seems to make sense. They were very helpful.