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If that's true, its likely that Mazda originally designed the rear brake sizing so that they roughly lasted as long as the fronts. Then in successive iterations, changed the tuning for other reasons like dynamics, handling, safety, etc that wound up relying more heavily on the rears. But...

On the 3rd attempt spanning a couple of years, I finally got my local Discount Tire call and find the Dimax AS-8, but they want to charge $138 plus $25 shipping for each to special order when Walmart has them for $104 and they won't price match :( I'm not paying $200+ more for the convenience...

This is a good point that immediately came to mind. Many people misread the rating for these cars. The limit is 2000 lbs with brakes, 1000 lbs without brakes for the US non-turbo models.

Funny, I read this thread, and even posted in it before. Today I opened it based on the title thinking it would be about some type of retaining ring that fell in during disassembly. Like the ring was meant to maintain engagement between two parts.

That was Sunday, it must be out by now. Let's see it.

I know many people have the experience and skill to torque nuts by hand. I'm not trying to tell you that you shouldn't, and like I said, you may be compensating for the the lower torque requirement with lubricated threads. There's plenty of debate, and some data, about the pros and cons...

https://www.bsc-ind.com/1089662/product/n/loctite-51001-loct It's described as allowing more clamping force when fastened to a given torque. That is one of the concerns with using lubricants on lug nuts. Perhaps you are compensating by tightening to a lower torque to avoid over-straining the...

Yeah, I think the "lug wrench" they are referring to is a dual purpose device. @Conrad 16.5 grease: a thick oily substance, especially as used as a lubricant Permatex Anti Seize Lubricant SDS lists 2nd ingredient as Mineral Oil...

Especially if its from the same dealership that previously quietly sent it out in the condition discovered by the next dealer and pictured by OP.

Did you look at it after they fixed it? This is the same shop that let it leave with that blue junk. Why do you believe it is fixed any better than it was before you brought it to the 2nd dealer. It's hard to imagine a legitimate circumstance in which they'd do that in a dealer shop, and if...

The obvious problem is wanting to do a daily commute using cheap electricity from home, but have the flexibility of gas infrastructure and range. Allows more torque and power without a big ICE.

2nd Dealer shouldn't have touched the plug without pointing out that it was gunked up. June Dealer should cover the oil too, that's ridiculous. Either they screwed it up or they didn't. Looks like they know that they did. They should fix it, put new oil in, apologize profusely, and offer you...

What is EPR? The first dealer charges about 3X what I'd be willing to pay if I were to have somebody else do it.

Oh, I see it now. I couldn't see the problem. It looks like the springs are in exactly the right place, bu the rubber between the spring and the metal seat is rotated out of position.

I ordered mine in 2018 from them. Perhaps what they have now is an updated version. When I ordered it was labled as for 2017-2018 on the website. They had it listed only in conjuction with the hitch. I emailed to ask if I could buy the harness separately and they updated their website to...

There is a link in my post 4. Select "harness only" .