CX-5 Rear Shock Mount Compatibility?
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- Plano, Texas, USA
Keep us updated.
Success!!
I managed to change the brackets without taking the shocks out. Some of the nuts were iffy and getting the bolt on top of the shock took a while, but technically not too challenging.
For the record, my CX5 is an early 2012 build (I picked it up in June of 2012).
I managed to change the brackets without taking the shocks out. Some of the nuts were iffy and getting the bolt on top of the shock took a while, but technically not too challenging.
For the record, my CX5 is an early 2012 build (I picked it up in June of 2012).
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Thanks for the update with many helpful pictures! Looks like it’s a straightforward replacement and I was wondering why FrankGMS, who is the first suggested using the CX-3 shock top mount in this forum
, had to “cut the damper cover at the bottom of the mount, removed the mount from the shock“? I can’t imaging his 2015 CX 5 would be much different on top mount design from your 2013 CX-5?The old mount is 40mm high, new 51 mm (not accounting for the rubber bumper underneath) and both appear to made of aluminum alloy. The ears where the old failed have not been substantially altered and are the weak point in the design so it would be interesting to see if they have been improved in newer iterations of the CX-5.
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Since the CX-3 top mount isn’t exactly the same as the gen-1 CX-5’s, now I just hope someone will try one of the available gen-2 CX-5 rear shock top mounts TK48-28-380C (for 2017 CX-5) / TK52-28-380C (for 2018 CX-5) / GBJD-28-380 (for 2019 and newer CX-5) ⋯
Mazda actually came out the first CX-5 as the 2012 MY world wide. But officially Mazda catagorized it as the 2013 MY in North America even thought it came out in mid 2012. Yours must be one of the very first batch CX-5’s for sale in Canada!
