All Tx failures are 13/14. I saw one guy with a 15 get his changed - he got pre owned. Other than that I do not see any significant failure rates for 15/16.
2016 CX5 better "driving machine" over 2017
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All Tx failures are 13/14. I saw one guy with a 15 get his changed - he got pre owned. Other than that I do not see any significant failure rates for 15/16.
paging_drburgos
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https://www.mazdas247.com/forum/sho...o-transmission-flare-changing-from-3rd-to-4th
https://www.mazdas247.com/forum/sho...17-GT-AWD-High-Pitch-Noise-Transmission/page2
https://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123859945-CX-5-transmission-went-bust
https://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123859831-2nd-trans-acting-up
https://www.mazdas247.com/forum/sho...-shifting-after-2015-transmission-replacement
So...that's from PAGE ONE ONLY of our "Engine and Transmission" forum...want me to dig further? You will note all of them are 2015-2017 (yes, a 2017 is already in there...), and some threads involve MULTIPLE failures.
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Yeah, I can't help but wonder if their diesel push is going to flop. Not that it doesn't sound like a nice engine, but the average person doesn't want a "diesel", they want it to run on snowflakes and rainbows.
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I'm content with my 2.5L 2015 running on the tears of the 2017 owners that I pass
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To be fair, Mazda isn't the only one. Go take a look at the 9 speed Acura transmission.
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I'm content with my 2.5L 2015 running on the tears of the 2017 owners that I pass
Hahaha! It's okay, my cabin is so quiet that I didn't hear you passing me.
First one is what Mazda fixed and in a fast fashion.
2nd Guy was a hunch or observation - he still posts here and never reported anything
3rd one was a guy who posted something and did not follow up at all - not sure.
4th guy had this comment on it, it was Mazda issued TSB:
That leak is caused by the pos early model of the OCV for the VVT. This is specifically addressed in a TSB. It is caused by a poorly engineered plastic to metal seal at the top where the electrical connector is. I just replaced my wife's with a new OCV, valve cover gasket and OCV to valve cover seal. Fortunately, this problem is big enough that you can buy the OCV seal separate now. Before you had to buy a whole new cam cover to just get the seal. My earlier silicone fix lasted about 10k, then the leak got worse as the valve seal deteriorated and the oil pressure on the silicone got higher. I got a good look at the top end, cam lobes, etc and everything looks like new. No sludge, etc. My OCI and M1 0W20 is working like a charm.
Good luck on trying to get any parts at all. My guy hooked me up with a couple dealers across the country that each had some of the different parts I needed and got everything in about 3 days. It's a b*tch to get at some of the nuts, harness clips, etc to move the main wiring harness out of the way to have clear access to remove/install the cam cover and remove the factory silicone at the 2 spots on the passenger side and the other 2 on the drivers side. I was gonna post a YouTube video, but was crunched for time and just wanted to get it done exactly like it was originally with no busted clips, etc. I can only imagine the Mazda monkeys breaking about 6 or 7 clips, not cleaning the seal surfaces perfectly and applying way to much silicone and probably in the wrong areas. I followed the FSM to the letter and used a pair of calipers and a sharpie to make marks exactly where and how long each bead had to be. I also cut the plastic nozzle to get the perfect bead width of ~0.25". Yeah, I'm a little OCD, but I only want to do a job once and do it right. Just turned 70k this weekend. Need to replace the alternator belt and water pump stretch belt and she should be good for another 70k.
5th - he just stopped posting. Whatever he wrote made sense but he was acting all hyper. Its like i bought a Rolls Royce and you come to my home fix my transmission and do my nails alongwith it kind of BS.
Proof read all for you - 1 case of tranny replacement and it was quick - so cannot slag Mazda for it.
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2017 CX-5 drl question
2017 CX-5 drl question
We all know how expensive those these LED headlight assemblies would be. And don't tell me those LED headlights will last forever even if we use them all the time:
Daytime running lights dim/flickering
Yes, US version 2017 CX-5 will have LED headlights on all the time serves as part of DRL function! On GT with LED accent-strip Signature DRLs the headlights are still on with LED Signature DRLs. This's a stupid decision by MNAO and nobody else in the US doing this way if there're accent-strip LED DRLs including our 2016(.5) CX-5 GT with Tech:
2017 CX-5 drl question
We all know how expensive those these LED headlight assemblies would be. And don't tell me those LED headlights will last forever even if we use them all the time:
Daytime running lights dim/flickering
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ZF makes them, don't they? ZF happens to suck, and has for a long time, and this is readily apparent across every single line they sell transmissions to, from Acura, to Chrysler.
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Hahaha! It's okay, my cabin is so quiet that I didn't hear you passing me.
I won't be watching for your reaction anyway. I'll be struggling with all that steering-feel that you lack, trying to keep my race-car between the lines after I pass you.
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Yea, the Chrysler and Land Rover 8 and 9 speeds trans are made here about 15 min from my house.
I've been asked to take a job there several times, but I can't support a product I don't trust...
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The only automatics I have faith in are made by GM and Toyota, and any transmission in a 4-cylinder truck, lol. My CX5? I am unsure of it. It's not got any miles on it really, so the verdict is out, but I am hoping. Hoping hard!
Wonder if you could disable the DRL as a whole then tap the halo only to ACC line?
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Properly done LED's last pretty well forever, man. I have been kicking around in the LED world, as it were, for about a decade now. My initial focus is over-driving the s*** out of them in the late 2000's for use on weapons. Gene Malkoff was one of the guys doing it, and has since licensed his designs to many in the industry. I remember him when he was "a no-body" on a forum selling modules to nerds like me and I could call him up, his wife would answer, and we would yammer about LED drivers, amps, heat, efficiency, binning, CRI, etc. Then the rest of the industry caught up, and some pretty solid performance matrices became established. If an LED is not over-driven, and is properly heat-sink'ed (almost all of them are, even cheap one's), you are looking at 50-100K hours of life. If you average 20mph in your vehicle over the life of it, that is 1 million miles of use. If you average FIVE MILES PER HOUR average (look at your mileage reading...) you are still getting 250k miles out of those LED's, and that's figuring it at the 50K hour life expectancy.
In short, worry about your transmission or something, unless you get a factory defect, and LED's with defects "poof" pretty fast usually, in a WML, usually by the 5th set of batteries (5-15 hours), you get a dead one, or it's going to last a LOOONNNNGGG time, if not.
So seriously...don't stress about the LED's. Honest.
Also look at the US military, they use LED's in the Comp series of Aimpoints. The doctrine is the leave them on, as they drain the battery slower by use than the battery would self-discharge in storage. YEARS of on-time. I called and asked AP if they ever "had one burn out". I was told a couple from the early 90's "seemed dimmer" (this was around 2013), but that's about it regarding "burn-out". Sure, some failed of course, but it wasn't LED related, it was the inevitability of man-made things with more than 1 part.
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Check out this year-old thread and you can actually see the most transmission failures happened on 2016 CX-5 at 4. And 2015 CX-5 has 3. 2014 and 2013 CX-5's have only 1 each.
Poll: My CX-5 transmission failed and was replaced
Of course as I mentioned before there're many members with 2013~2015 CX-5's aren't here anymore. And I listed 7 members who had total transmission failures on their 2016 CX-5 and Mazda6 at the time in post #10 in the thread. DBLXX responded the poll and he traded in his disappointing CX-5 after transmission replacement and got a Toyota Prius! One member talked to a rep from Mazda North American Operations about the transmission issue on 2016 and she admitted there was a batch of bad parts got installed into the transmission.
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Yep, and Malkoff is a class act. I began using OEM Surefire WML's around 2013 or so when they came out with their 500 lumen X300U's and M600U's. Malkoff used to be the tip of the spear, now, I prefer OEM Surefire. I wish Malkoff would innovate something, but he just isn't. His stuff may put out a few more lumens, but Surefire has better tint to my eyes, and balances runtime/output/beam profile VERY WELL.
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I've got two LED nightlights going on 10 years now....
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never had luck with CFLs (even had one over heat and melt in the socket).
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(mj)
never had luck with CFLs (even had one over heat and melt in the socket).
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