Car is a late 2018 model with just 33k miles. Linkage from gear lever to gearbox suddenly failed whilst in traffic about 150 miles from home - stuck in gear and impossible to select any other gear or engage neutral (gear lever flopping around and useless). Used Green Flag recovery to pick up the car and, when the driver/mechanic turned up at the roadside, he said he'd recovered two or three other Mazdas with exactly the same issue over the previous couple of weeks. Car was then taken the following morning to one of the repair shops that Green Flag use in the (Manchester UK) area. Parts were ordered (apparently a set of cables that are somehow bound together but need to be fitted as a set, rather than just replacing the one that's snapped) and repair was carried out. Parts approx. £220 and required 2hrs labour so final bill with VAT not much short of £500. Mechanics at the repair shop said that they had done at least two identical jobs in the previous week. So, what's going on and how big of an issue is this?
2017~2025 Gear Linkage Cables
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