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:: Thread resurrection bump :: Has anyone considered whether it's possible to use the second-row seats from an Explorer or Transit Connect? Though the middle seats in those cars don't slide, my kids and I looked at a Transit Connect in person and the flip-forward second row seems extremely handy.

I'm suspecting it depends on the individual wheels. Mazda5s can still be had stock with 16" wheels, but when I tried fitting a set of 16s from an older car ('98 Crown Victoria ... and yes, I know a zero-offset wheel would stick way out of the wheel arches), I had huge caliper clearance issues...

Nope, no worky. Menus just reset when I hit Submit. I actually have an alternate URL ... it's infotainment.mazdahandsfree.com ... I got it today from a phone rep at a division called "Mazda Handsfree". AND, better still, it works! Here's the rest of the story so far: Today I tried...

So three years ago I neither knew nor cared whether anything had Bluetooth technology. Then I bought my '12 Mazda5 Touring, which comes from the factory with Bluetooth, and it turned out it worked really well, making and taking calls reliably, and even pausing and restarting a paused audio...

And how convenient is that sliding door with the car seat? :) I put my younger kid on the driver's side, so to help her out of the car all I have to do is get out and turn around. It's about as convenient as ducking into the baskseat area of an American-style two-door car, and maybe even more...

I spent part of yesterday fussing with my new phone, trying to get it to behave nicely with the Bluetooth on my '12 Five Touring. Prior to having Bluetooth in the car, I wouldn't have known or cared whether it worked right, but I've kind of gotten used to having it! My old phone, which I've...

I'm going in on Wednesday to get new tires on my '12 Five Touring. The originals are shot after 2-3/4 years and less than 27,000 miles. I was strongly tempted to have the Tire Rack ship me a complete 16" wheel/tire combo, but for now I'm putting some Conti PureContacts (or rather, my dealer...

Today I've got to replace my first light bulb on the Five. My wife was stopped yesterday by a friendly university police officer who wanted her to know there was a brake light out. Testing revealed that the bulb works in brake-light mode *some* of the time ... gotta love incandescent lights!

When I saw this dicussion, I thought to volunteer that when torquelover got brand hew STOCK size tires recently, he reported that his car no longer scraped going into his driveway - which it had done ever since he brought it home new. So his replacement Yohokama Envigor tires must be measurably...

Not just me, then. IIRC, the Toyos seemed rather good the first winter but were substantially worse the second one, and this year they're about hopeless on slushy stuff (and my county's idea of winter road maintenance is to dump loads of salt with minimal scraping so everything's a slushy soup...

Need to remove and either fix or replace a taillight assembly on my '12 Mazda5. It's the passenger side (right) assembly, the "outer" one that mounts into the quarter panel. The only idea I've come up with is that maybe the mounting screws are accessible from inside the little storage bin on...

I don't know, this was pretty easy: https://www.tirerack.com/wheels/results.jsp?autoMake=Mazda&autoModel=MAZDA3+4-Door&autoYear=2005&autoModClar=i+Sport (click on "Basic Steel Wheels" tab) EDIT: Oops, changed it to '05. Apparently if you say it's an '08, some NHTSA geniuses worked things so...

I backed my '12 into a basketball pole over the weekend! It's next to my driveway, and I've only been driving around it in various vehicles for the past 6+ years, but I guess I'd gotten used to having my car on the other side of the driveway for a week or two, and was distracted, and I found a...

Sounds like it's good preventative maintenance to pop the rotors off early in the car's life and apply antiseize all over the face of the hub?

Got any install pics of the swaybar bushings? I'm still not quite sure where they hide that stuff on these newfanged FWD cars.

So ... has anyone yet testfitted actual FWD 15" wheels? I've got several 14s and 15s laying around, but they're from midsize RWD stuff built back when the hotrod setup was 11" drums out back!

Maybe the '12s are firmer stock than the earlier ones? I don't think I could handle mine being much stiffer, unless maybe I lived somewhere with perfect streets.

Fancy! Did that all come as a kit with your aftermarket headunit?

Had the dealer check it out whilst in for a regularly scheduled oil change and inspection. Service manager said it's actually the swaybar bushing, and that there's a TSB on the issue saying to first grease the bushings with a certain product, and then to replace if the problem doesn't go away...