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My wife pulls up to my work to pick me up the other day and smoke is absolutely billowing out of the passenger rear wheel. When I say billowing, I mean I'm convinced there's a fire. I look and there's no fire, but it smells horribly of tortured brake pad and the rotor looks scored up which, 5...

I'm wanting to make sure I either have a problem or I don't. The rear cross traffic alert in our CX-5 hardly works. If you are stationary and a car comes into the view of the camera most of the time it will alert it. If a vehicle already in the camera view starts moving it doesn't alert us. If...

In my quest to install HIDs in our CX-5 GT (non LED package), I searched on this forum and went through quite a few threads going over what bulb type to use. In each thread it was never definitively stated whether the CX-5 uses an H11A or an H11B bulb. There was also talk about some having the...

Hello all, fresh fish here. I'm a first-time Mazda3 owner, but long-time Mazda lover and multiple Mazda owner. A couple of weeks ago my wife and I finally picked up a Mazda3 after years of looking at them and years of buying other cars instead. I'm glad to say it finally happened, and I couldn't...

I just had a new Exedy OEM-style clutch installed in our Protege5. It works fantastic, the problem is since it was installed it's hard to get the car out of reverse. Every other gear works perfectly fine, but it takes some strength to get it out of reverse for some reason. The shop that...

I've been driving my fiancee's Protege5 to work lately and noticed that when you first start it the valvetrain sounds incredibly loud. It goes away once the car starts warming up, but man it's not the best-sounding thing when it is doing it. The car runs perfectly fine but is this normal for...

Does anyone happen to know the part number for the cilps that hold the sideskirts in place? Or know how to order them? The 3 local Mazda dealerships I've contacted could not find them in their system or order them. When I removed the factory sideskirts on our P5 a lot of them were broke, or...

We've had our P5 for 3 weeks now and when I was detailing it a week or two ago I noticed some serious rust in the engine bay and then some surface rust forming under the side skirts towards the rear of the car. After reading how many of these cars are having rust issues I decided to try to get...

The Protege5 we picked up for my fiancee did not come with the factory strut bar, but instead came with this one. I like it, and it's not doing anything bad, I just can't seem to identify what company makes it? It doesn't have any stampings or anything of the sort on it. Here are some pictures...

If so, can you run this VIN and see if within the past two months it shows any servicework on this Mazda? It's our Protege5. Here's the VIN: JM1BJ245931165213 I ask because I'm in a bit of a "discussion" with the dealership we bought our Protege5 from. When we got home we noticed that the...