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Yea, I just did some spring work on my 2002 Chevy Silverado. The upper spring lives in a soft rubber insulator. Ours looks like hard plastic.

Yea, my 2022 is outside this TSB on all three situations. But that doesn't make your vehicle immune to the problem. My dealer installed a new LCA because they thought the stick-slip on the LCA foerward bushing was likely. I was impressed. But it wasnt it. I did soak the heck out of the...

I got my RH LCA replaced. Still creaks. Next is gunna be strut and upper strut bearing.

They should use toyota fipg to fix that leak

Here is my creak. I got my LCA, Right side replaced, no help

Yea, like talking to a brick wall. Just because the TSB only covers to model year 2020 doesn't mean later model years are immune. The new coating was an attempt to fix it. My car proves it didnt fix it in all cases. Feel free to site my repair. Work was done May 24th. 2022 CX-9. Walser Mazda...

2021 looks like they changed the coating to reduce friction. You should be able to find it just by doing some googling. But even with the new coating the bushing still sticks slips as the control arm swings thru its travel. I was going to jam some silicone grease in there but I didn't want to...

They replaced the Right LCA. No more creak! :). Also I asked them to increase the toe when they aligned it. I had it at .04, high speed wander was hard to keep it in my lane on highway. 2000 miles ago I had it adjusted to .18 total tow. Drove better. Today they set it at .26 total, much...

I was gunna stuff a pointed punch in there and inject some silicone grease. That would have fixed it. Mazda says it should rotate, they actually have a TSB on this. Thier fix was to use a coating on the LCA bore that has less friction. That revised LCA came out on 2020 and should be the one on...

I think I went down the cowl plate bolt rabbit hole, my creaking noise wasn't that. Mazda Dealership agreed with my suspicion that it was the LCA Bushing doing its stick-slip thing. Getting a new Right Lower Control Arm installed tomorrow. Here is the text of the note I left for the...

There might be a revision, this is a few years old. But its spot on. But its not for CX5s, but same front end I believe.

I think my creak noise is the Lower Control Arm bushings doing the "stick-slip" thing discribed in TSB 02-001/20. The fix was they put a coating on the bore of the LCA to "reduce friction". Does that mean if I put some silicon grease in there my noise goes away?? I almost did put the car is...

Thats interesting information. NGK has been what I always use in my Japanese motorcycles from the early 1970s till now. I always liked that they said Made in Japan. Unusual for a Japanese company to move operations over here. I understand cars, but plugs are ez to ship. I will still use them too

Interesting info. You must have the maintenance manual procedure. I have the TSB and it just says head and exhaust gasket have been updated. Maybe you have a more recent revision then I have.

They should install the revised head and exhaust gasket set so your car should be solid after the repair. I am curious if you get 16 new valves or if they reuse the original ones

I know on some vehicles coolant goes to the throttle body.

Yeah I have a warranty but I'd rather just figured out on my own because it's always the same thing with dealerships. It's normal it's normal it's normal. Plus I'm an aircraft mechanic and I'm pretty picky about my stuff I've seen what they do to vehicles when the customer is not looking. Yeah...