Recent content by magicpotatoes

40,000 or so miles on the wife's 2015 touring, we got it 7/14/2014, doesn't burn oil, tail pipes just now starting to get black soot, about to make its first trip to the dealership tomorrow for filler pipe recall.

sunglasses in the compartment by the rearview mirror? i had this happen to me recently, turned out my girlfriend left her sunglasses and lipstick and other junk in that little pocket

could it be the fan that cools down the infotainment/head unit?

count me in

hmm... might trade the girlfriend's '15 just for that feature lol. i use her cx-5 to get groceries some nights and she always wakes me up the morning after to release the parking brakes for her. i yank it pretty good when i apply it and she's too wimpy to release it.

+1 my girlfriend took her cx-5 for oil change last week at 6k miles, first oil change was free so everything was fine and good until this morning i decided to check what kind of oil was put in it, looked at the invoice and saw they used 6 qts of 252-4001, i was hoping they didn't actually put 6...

there is no TPMS sensor in the wheel/tire, part of the ABS system monitors the tire rotation difference between all 4 tires ie: if one tire is flat it will rotate more than the rest . not as accurate as a pressure sensor inside the tire but it works very well. as long as all 4 tires you're...

the CX-5 doesn't use sensors in the tires, the ABS system monitors the rotation of the tires and if one tire rotates x amount of times more than the others it would detect said tire is low on pressure. i was curious about this system myself and tried it by deflating the rear passenger side down...

i think cruiser meant the tire shop possibly messing up the TPMS, the costco guys ruined one on my BMW X5, they said they didn't know the tires had TPMS because the valve stems look like regular ones (and they do) so they were casual about un-mounting the tires and cracked one of the TPMS. They...

i got similar results through stop and crawl traffic from the bay bridge all the way to the embarcadero and then back last weekend