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anytime a dealer hounds you to buy your car it has nothing to do with wanting your car, and everything to do with wanting you to finance a new one with them. I bought my ‘12 sport in 2014/15 with 20k miles for $12k. Granted you have a higher trim level than mine, but for Mazda that basically...

Part of the issue is for some reason Mazda decided to only install high tone horns in many of their cars in the US market. Just adding a low tone makes it sound like a normal horn. Super tones are definitely nice. Incidentally they work just fine without the relay, and a splitter going from...

Small update. New KYB struts and mounts arrived yesterday and today. Out of curiosity and was dry fitting the H&R springs on the strut. Looked good to go. Then dry fit the mount on the spring..... problems. The OE springs (as pictured in page 2 of this thread) Have a tighter 4.5” diameter...

Let’s not fool ourselves here, the 3 drove way more fun than the 5 ever has. This improvement just gave me some wistful memories of driving the 3. The progressive springs definitely gave it a tighter feel around corners with less slop and body roll (at least my perception). That was sort of a...

And here I thought it was only my kids doing distance learning right now. Thanks for the info on the engines! I’m waiting on a motor mount for the passenger side mount, so I definitely mentioned it. I’m currently having vibration at idle in gear, but not in neutral. Changing my super dirty...

Very true. I picked up my ‘12 model in ‘14 with right around 20k miles on it. It was in immaculate condition. By comparison I’ve trashed it, but three kids and driving in and out of DC nearly daily for over a year..... I swapped in an aftermarket pioneer unit shortly after buying it. I...

I’d appreciate if they came back as I’m getting ready to do mine. Pretty sure I can mull my way through based on descriptions, but pictures are always nice.

Like I said, I’m mulling it over. I still haven’t ordered the new struts yet. To be clear I’ve never really had interest in making handling improvements to the car.... of course at the time I still had my 3 to go play around in. The spring replacement just started as a way to get better...

Welcome. There are several things which came up on the first gen 5 which shouldn’t be issues on a 2nd gen. (Sliding door not latching closed in cold weather, front strut noise, etc). Also the 4 speed ATX wasn’t particular nice or smooth in the 1st gen and is improved in the 2nd gen. The 2.5 is...

So far I’ve only done the rear springs and replaced the worn shocks. I haven’t gotten around to the front struts yet, and I’m still mulling over leaving it stock (with replaced struts). Based on the measurements posted in this thread (I think the beginning of page 2) the front CX7 springs may...

On either side of the crash bar is where I had them on my ‘12. I actually looked to put the super tones there on her ‘08, but the lower mounts for the radiator are different and obscure the bolts I used to mount on my 2nd gen. The wolo disc horns I had in my ‘12 the ground kept going bad on...

I got mine from tire rack on a close out for $189 before shipping. I guess they were clearing old stock becuase they’re now $250 on tire rack. The set I got were the 29050.1 sport springs (for a 2012 CX7) if you want to search around other places.

Totally doable. The 2.5 in the Mz5 is a bored out version of the 2.3 which was used in the Mz3 since 2004, and plenty of people turbocharged those motors, though the general consensus is it was easier to turbo the 2.0 for reasons I don’t recall and probably couldn’t really explain if I did...

Had a crappy 2 Ton jack. Same problem as noted, couldn’t lift some things high enough, and couldn’t fit under some things. Went with a low profile 3 ton jack when I replaced it. If I had to lift it anywhere to put it away I wouldn’t like it, but given it just stays on the ground it’s not a...

No, the uncompressed height is same as stock. This is compared to the OE CX7 springs which are ~2” longer and which increase the ride height by about 2”. Compressed and in the car, and now that the shocks have settled (and bearing in mind my driveway is not perfectly level) the ride height...

Also check your shock mounts. Common failure point.

Did a couple of things to my ‘12 the last few days. Pulled off the bumper cover to check the ground on my low tone wolo disc (hella supertone lookalike) horn. Turns out the ground was fine, but the horn was dead. Ended up going with a new set of wolo trumpet horns (Happened to be in stock at...