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Could it need some kind of lubrication?

One thing I've found in situations like this where you really cant do anything is to just wait it out for an extra 10 or 20 minutes and enjoy the slow boring ride. It can actually be a bit relaxing if you want because it's so easy to drive that slow. Grab something out of the cooler, bring up...

Yep, I think a lot of cars these days have accessories or whatever that tend to use juice and can slowly run a battery down. Rule of thumb it takes three times as long to recharge a battery as it took to discharge it, which is why short drives never really get the battery fully charged...

I 've got the 17 wheels and I like them ok. I always figure the OEM wheels should work well partly just because they were designed for it. Oh, you might want to look at the threads on seat cushions. CX 5s seem to have firmer foam than some people prefer. Memory foam's what I use. It's a...

I think this is true of any size of wheel, and how stiff the sidewall is, how many/ what kind of belts, etc. Some tires seem to be designed for light SUVs and crossovers and I wonder if they have slightly stiffer sidewalls. The LX25 for example. Would looking at the load number be any...

All of the strange things happening does seem like it is very likely a battery problem. New or not it could be discharged somehow and it doesnt' matter if the battery is new when something could be running the battery down after a period of time. The only way to tell is find out the battery...

Driving up Pikes Peak a car can only corner so fast. unless they have the road blocked off for the road race it could be a real problem if somebody going down Pikes Peak was also racing around corners at the same time :(

I kind of wonder how does carbon gunk get baked onto the throttle body? Does it come through the air flow system somehow?

yes, it can be replaced and there are lots of links on this forum, plus in the resources the manuals on p2.

That's supposed to be really good stuff, some people might say too good for only 5k miles but I would keep your intervals if you think that is best. Lately I've been trying to use a oil pan heater to get a head start on getting the oil temp up. I remember reading years ago it could take 4-5...

If the water pump has leakage it can throw coolant around from the belt and it's on the passenger side. Is your's a turbo?

You should be able to tell the difference driving at night, or you can try to see the reflection in some windows.

Sometimes burning oil smells like burning rubber.

I went two years once during the Covid days..... very low mileage but I try to get it out on the highway for a decent cruise every few weeks. I was looking at my oil change log I keep on the back cover of the manual and I usually changed a bit over 4000 miles.

They say the higher speed performance is enhanced with higher octane fuel.

What I read on this forum is the 2.5T can deliver a lot of power- but it requires a lot of fuel to do it. Maybe a special tune or careful driving helps deliver better FE. Maybe the turbo is designed to deliver at the lower RPMs. Don't some cars have dual turbos to fix this?

That's just like mine. I can play CDs, mp3 encoded CDs, etc. You can connect things via the USB port, how does that connect from the console to the unit? What really helped mine was better speakers and some tweeters and they didn't have ANY sound deading in the doors, so Dynamat stuff helped that.

I wonder if they still use this method, considering that possibly the ECM could do the same thing with code. I think Mazda has liquid-filled mounts, sometimes they fail.

I've gotten KYB. It seems like I've heard they might be an OEM supplier, at least for some asian brands. So the springs they supply with the quickstrut are sub-par?

True, there are many brands. I was curious about which one you used in this instance.