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RWatters

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16.5 CX-5 GT
Hello all, fresh fish here. I'm a first-time Mazda3 owner, but long-time Mazda lover and multiple Mazda owner. A couple of weeks ago my wife and I finally picked up a Mazda3 after years of looking at them and years of buying other cars instead. I'm glad to say it finally happened, and I couldn't be happier with the car we bought.

The car in question is a 2005 Mazda3 s automatic. This particular model has every single one of it's 82,000 miles documented with a detailed service history from Mazda so while the mileage is a little higher, the car really appears to have been taken care of! It has every option I believe they came with outside of TPMS, heated seats, navigation, and the Bose system. It has leather, sunroof, 6-disc CD changer, side airbags, all of the traction/stability controls, etc. I'm not sure how Mazda did packages back then but what this one came with seems a little random!

I've owned over 15 cars and this is my first automatic. I never thought I'd see that day come, but now that I have one I am absolutely loving it. We live in an area with a decent amount of traffic and never-ending construction and I've just grown tired of driving slower cars equipped with a manual.

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The wheels are ASA AR1s and they came on the car. I'm on the fence about how I feel about them. My wife loves them though so I suppose that means we're keeping them. ;)

Plans are pretty simple. New tires, HIDs, window tint, add a Basslink as the factory system doesn't have much in the form of bass, and I want to change out the rear tails to the newer LED ones.
 
Congrats on the new purchase! (2thumbs)
 
Clean car and the wheels are fine. I would however put painting the calipers at the top of my list if I were you. A nice gloss black would look great.
 
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