Recent content by ZoomFox

All pun aside, I consider water temp a very important gauge; too important not to have.

Who knows.. but I have had Honda, Mitsubishi, VW and currently Subaru. They all have water temp gauges. I still think Mazda is a great car.

BTW, I looked the car over last night and the pan and driveway are spotless - it was a poorly installed filter. Firestone did refund the money so I can't truly bash them. At least they recognized they made a mistake.

nothing abnormal. its all looked clean. I didn't think of feeling the hoses. what is crazy to me is that this car does not have a temp gauge. How would you know you are overheating?

So I didn't find the coolant leak but I did find the oil leak... I got under the car, clean it all up and ran it to inspect... Not sure what firestone did nor what what yellow thing is, but I basically cleaned it all up and changed the oil with a new Fram filter. Got under the car while...

Its teal. I am more concerned about the oil leak. I am going to get under the car tomorrow and snap some pics etc. I need to see where its leaking from. It leaks while the motor is on.

Does that look like coolant though?

I don't know. The seems like a dumb thing to do. Plus I think I probably also see the water spots on the reservoir that side if pretty clean. The motor mount side that is exposed to the engine looks all "orange". I wonder if there is also a leaking hose ? I don't think the block would leak /...

Hello everyone I am new to the forums, I am sorry my first post of a cry for help. My wife drives a 2010 Mazda 3 sport which has very quickly reached 100K miles. We usually take the car for oil changes etc to a shop and I noticed some "coolant" stain on the heir engine bay as well as some oil...