Joining the CX-9 Family

[CXRabbit]

Hey all,

I'm a soon-to-be owner of a "new" pre-owned 2007 CX-9 as of tonight. I'm trading in my 2007 CX-7 while I still can. I've really loved the CX-7 despite some of it's "issues" but more and more I need to be able to seat more than 5 people, so I think the CX-9 will be a good fit. Getting about $12K on the trade-in and paying about $22K for the CX-9. I feel it's a good deal, especially since my CX-7 has 70K miles and needs some work right now.

I had done a custom radio/nav unit on the CX-7 and am hoping to do the same for the CX-9 in the near future. Will post picture when I'm done. If you look at my profile and old posts, you can see photos of the CX-7. Going to be doing a Kenwood 9960 likely... full nav, blue tooth, iPod and rear camera.

BTW, I'm a bit baffled about trim level on the CX-9 I'm buying. Dealer has it listed as a Sport and I know it's not a GT because it lacks the wood trim, fog lamps and blinker-mirrors. However, it has full leather interior, heated seats and moon roof. I didn't think these were even options on the Sport...

Look forward to joining-in this area of the forums ... and hopefully not for problems! LOL

 

[ceric]

Could yours be the "Touring" model that sits in the middle of Sports and GT (Grand Touring)?
Welcome to CX9 forum.

 

[CXRabbit]

Could yours be the "Touring" model that sits in the middle of Sports and GT (Grand Touring)?
Welcome to CX9 forum.

That's what I thought too until I saw the dealer had it listed as a sport.

To put the issue to rest, I went and registered it at Mazda.com with the VIN Number.... and according to them it is a Touring. Appears the dealer is wrong, but I'm not going to tell them

 

[teedeebee]

Nice upgrade, Amy. Welcome and enjoy that Touring.

 

[100$ GUY]

Hey all,

I'm a soon-to-be owner of a "new" pre-owned 2007 CX-9 as of tonight. I'm trading in my 2007 CX-7 while I still can. I've really loved the CX-7 despite some of it's "issues" but more and more I need to be able to seat more than 5 people, so I think the CX-9 will be a good fit. Getting about $12K on the trade-in and paying about $22K for the CX-9. I feel it's a good deal, especially since my CX-7 has 70K miles and needs some work right now.

I had done a custom radio/nav unit on the CX-7 and am hoping to do the same for the CX-9 in the near future. Will post picture when I'm done. If you look at my profile and old posts, you can see photos of the CX-7. Going to be doing a Kenwood 9960 likely... full nav, blue tooth, iPod and rear camera.

BTW, I'm a bit baffled about trim level on the CX-9 I'm buying. Dealer has it listed as a Sport and I know it's not a GT because it lacks the wood trim, fog lamps and blinker-mirrors. However, it has full leather interior, heated seats and moon roof. I didn't think these were even options on the Sport...

Look forward to joining-in this area of the forums ... and hopefully not for problems! LOL

What issues?

 

[CXRabbit]

Issues: AC failure that made me think the car was on fire... cabin filled with smoke, climate control stopped working. Had to have car towed. Found out it was a wide-spread problem and fought with mazda to cover it (they paid all parts, I ended up paying labor). This was like 6 months ago or so... and over course they JUST issued an official recall on it.

Smart-key button completely disintegrated. Not for lack of care either... I take good care of my cars.

VVT Valve. Expensive to fix. Made engine very very noisy, especially at start-up.

Not exactly cheap to maintain... but I don't imagine the CX-9 is cheaper.

Premium gas only, and not all that great gas mileage.

IPod interface from factory sucked... that's why I ended up pulling the whole thing and going custom.

However, even with those things, I did LOVE the car! If I didn't need the extra seating, I'd likely have bought another!

Picked up the CX-9 last night...

Had the new stereo/nav installed today... will post photos in the right forum...