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Car is fixed. In the end replaced the engine. It was a crack in the cylinder head (less cost for replacement engine from a salvage yard than new head). Best guess on what happened is had a small coolant leak that went unnoticed finally got low enough and caused engine to overheat and...

OK Mazda you win I give up. 25 years of owning cars from Sh*T boxes to BMW's and repairing them all. I am making an appoint at a auto repair shop something I thought that would never happen. Definitely a crackhead or blown gasket may need a new engine just don't have the time or energy to...

I'm going to check the compression later today but in the meantime drain the coolant doesn't look good.

My car does not have engine oil cooler so back to head gasket.....

There was some oil visible floating on top of the coolant and some water in the engine oil.

Is there a cooler for the engine oil? I thought the oil cooler would be for the ATF?

I did not do the bubble test but did see several drops of oil in the coolant.

It has been running and starting fine. Does not stutter and have not noticed a loss of power. I did have a loss of fuel economy but had a bad front brake caliper causing a rub.

At the gas station I used what was a available a general 50/50 mix that said compatible with all coolants. I then got Pentosin Pentofrost A2 which was listed as a FL-22 coolant.

So I am driving home on the highway last week and and get high temp warning. I drive a couple miles to the next exit and find that the coolant level is low. I put in some from a gas station and get the car home. I can not find any signs of a leak and checked the thermostat and its all...

Nope was part of headlight assembly.

That was it drain from the headlight..... Thanks for the help

Thank you I will take a look for that. I went through a bunch of schematics for the engine but did not look at lighting.

The pc that looks broken is plastic and the tube is rubbery.

2 years has been my experience to

I have this code too. Changed both sensors and heater works great. Anybody have other fixes for this?

Mystery part fell out when took off plastic shroud under engine on drivers side. Anyone know what it is?

2014 CX5 AWD with Tech package (83K miles) My issues: Lower control arm at 32K miles Over heats when running in traffic with AC on squeaking in rear of car when going over some bumps gas mileage on same commute has gone from 28.5MPG to 24.5MPG Error code P011A comes and goes still chasing this...

Ok I am just curious. I have 2014 CX5 AWD with all the bells and whistles. I loved my car when I first got it was fun to drive and handled great. Then the rattles and squeaks started. 32K miles front end noise when hitting bumps. Tracked this down to lower control joint changed it out...

Even if they look exactly the same one has 10 more winters wouldn't you expect an almost new car to better? I'm not trying to be negative just noticed the rust when starting to install my hitch and wanted to get some thoughts from more experienced mazda owners. I had a jeep years ago that had...