High Mileage CX-5s - report in

[Sekmor]

wow, you guys are good. Crash test was one. The shifter was also a mid year change with a few other things. I 'd have to look up my files but at the time, there were some upgrades that made me look for the mid year.

 

[yrwei52]

@ yrwei52, where are you?

Sorry, running around the town trying to find some nice Texas Rangers World Series Champions memorabilia! I was shocked to see the prices of these items. A simple T-shirt now is $50, not $5 ~ $10 on a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl Champions T-shirt in 1990’s!

 

[Jmaz]

Sorry, running around the town trying to find some nice Texas Rangers World Series Champions memorabilia! I was shocked to see the prices of these items. A simple T-shirt now is $50, not $5 ~ $10 on a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl T-shirt in 1990’s!

LOL. We survived without you, but just barely. Hope you scored a good deal if there were any.

 

[weitau]

Yes there was. They improved the front offset crash safety for one thing. Not sure if there were any other changes, but I don't recall any. I was bummed, 'cos the 2014.5 came out a coupla months after we bought our 2014 CX-5

It seems like CX-5s built after Oct 2013 got the better crash safety rating. But the same IIHS website says those built before Nov 2013 received inferior ratings.

 

[Kedis82ZE8]

Looking at one some of my old posts small overlap change at 11/2013 but link to info is broken now in post.

2016 CX-5 NHTSA Crash-Test Safety Rating: 3 (out of 5) for Frontal Crash - Passenger

Does anyone know why the 2016 CX-5 crash test safety ratings went down? I couldn't believe the Front Passenger's safety rating is now a 3 and the overall rating is a 4. I wonder if Mazda is going to do further testing or come up with a fix to make it safer for passenger occupants. Safety was one...

mazdas247.com

 

[yrwei52]

Looking at one some of my old posts small overlap change at 11/2013 but link to info is broken now in post.

2016 CX-5 NHTSA Crash-Test Safety Rating: 3 (out of 5) for Frontal Crash - Passenger

Does anyone know why the 2016 CX-5 crash test safety ratings went down? I couldn't believe the Front Passenger's safety rating is now a 3 and the overall rating is a 4. I wonder if Mazda is going to do further testing or come up with a fix to make it safer for passenger occupants. Safety was one...

mazdas247.com

The reason why the 2016 CX-5 crash test safety ratings went down and the Front Passenger's safety rating is a 3 and the overall rating is a 4 mainly is because:

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Passenger side airbag reprogramming is a Special Service Program (SSP) A6 which is supposed to prevent fabric tear of the passenger front air bag during deployment. I also suspect this has something to do with 2016 CX-5's 3-star rating on passenger side for NHTSA Frontal Barrier Crash Test dropped from 5 stars of previous MY.

JD power rating for mazda cx5 is LOW !!!!!

That’s why I’ve been saying the 2016.5 CX-5 is the best as most of these issues on 2016 CX-5 had been fixed on 2016.5 CX-5.

 

[Kedis82ZE8]

You still get a chance at my oil leaks though

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10145244-9999.pdf

2013-2016 CX-5 with VINS lower than JM3KE******838638 (produced before July 4, 2016)

https://mazdas247.com/forum/attachments/mc-10169509-0001-pdf.320947/

Granted... it's not worth fixing on that timing cover... just keep it clean every couple oil changes.

I think that rear diff gives me the greatest long term concern. There have been leak and crack issues that have continued over the years.

 

[Kedis82ZE8]

Just some 250-300k mile examples