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[Unobtanium]

Hey all!

I picked up a snow flake white CX-5 grand touring AWD last night! I had never owned a Mazda before, but I am loving this new ride! I do, however, have a couple of questions:

1. This vehicle does use a timing chain, correct?
Yes, and I have never, and will NEVER own one that doesn't.

2. How reliable have your Cx-5's been? What issues have you had so far?
The rear diff died 1.5mo after it took on water crossing a stream, and some body-cladding was destroyed in Dallas due to road conditions/concrete that flew up and hit it, and I have killed 2 Mazda windshields but the Safelite one is going strong! Much superior glass. basically, nothing that wasn't environmental.
3. How many miles are you all going between oil changes?
I go 5k miles.
4. How is the resale value on these?
Absolute trash. Mine is a 2015 AWD Touring, and earlier this year I was offered $13K trade-in on it. Worst resale of any of the 8 or 9 cars I've owned. You're stuck in it until you die, or decide to take a huge hit,
basically.
5. Is the AWD good in snow?
Yes, I drove through 4-6" of blinding snow on a road-trip and it did phenomenal. It also does very well in dry, wet, gravel, anything really. It's a great AWD system. I used to dog on it, but have found my accusations of inferiority patently false.
Thanks so much for all of your help guys!

Had mine for about 2 years, now, and while I wish it were a Forester 2.0XT, I got into it a lot cheaper than I could have one of those, and so far it has not caused me any real grief, so I plan on continuing ownership.

 

[Unobtanium]

So, my 17'Cx-5 is prone to tranny problems?

How do you make sure the rain sensing wipers are off? I
am going to run my car through the wash tomorrow, and I don't want them on when the car wash is going. LOL.

How many miles are you getting out of your OEM tires?

Thanks all!

Mazda transmissions seem to be about par for the course. They aren't great, but they aren't crap.
My vehicle had 28k miles on it when I bought it, OEM's were done, but very un-even, I think the rental company put the crappiest tires they had on it before auctioning it, personally.
I put new tires on it at 28k miles, and now have 63K miles, and the tires are about 1.5 AR15 bolt-lug thicknesses above the wear bar.

 

[finch204]

Had mine for about 2 years, now, and while I wish it were a Forester 2.0XT, I got into it a lot cheaper than I could have one of those, and so far it has not caused me any real grief, so I plan on continuing ownership.

I was researching the Forester 2.0XT a couple of nights ago and I have found that even with the current model, they still do not have blind-spot monitoring. I think that is a deal breaker. I cannot understand how they can have all sorts of safety features with their Eyesight system but are not able to include blind-spot monitoring with it. Which brings me back to the CX-5 still being the best pick in its category.

 

[PatrickGSR94]

Deal breaker? Use blind spot mirrors? Even with BSM I still added convex blind spot mirrors on our CX-5. Always used them on all my cars. No blind spots.

 

[dougal]

Hey all!

I picked up a snow flake white CX-5 grand touring AWD last night! I had never owned a Mazda before, but I am loving this new ride! I do, however, have a couple of questions:

1. This vehicle does use a timing chain, correct?

2. How reliable have your Cx-5's been? What issues have you had so far?

3. How many miles are you all going between oil changes?

4. How is the resale value on these?

5. Is the AWD good in snow?

Thanks so much for all of your help guys!

1. Yes, as others have said.
2. Close to 90K miles on my 2014 GT with nothing major. The only thing is I am on my third set of tires. The originals lasted maybe 23K and the second set I did not like so when I got a puncture and had to change 2, I changed them all out. Other than that, I have not had any issues.
3. I have done mine at 5K. I drive a lot so I change often.
4. When I live in the NE, the car was very good in the snow. In the south where I live now, it does very well with the slick roads!

Welcome and enjoy the car!

 

[finch204]

Deal breaker? Use blind spot mirrors? Even with BSM I still added convex blind spot mirrors on our CX-5. Always used them on all my cars. No blind spots.

I've had those blind spot convex mirrors on my 2010 Mazda3 that didn't have blind spot monitors. They work ok during the day, but they do not work at night especially when the car behind you on the other lane does not have his headlights on. But that's besides the point. The point is almost all vehicles in the category offer blind spot monitors. You can get those on the CX-5, CRV, Escape, etc... I cannot justify spending a good amount of money on a vehicle that does not offer BSM, when every other vehicle in the category does.

 

[PatrickGSR94]

I've had those blind spot convex mirrors on my 2010 Mazda3 that didn't have blind spot monitors. They work ok during the day, but they do not work at night especially when the car behind you on the other lane does not have his headlights on. But that's besides the point. The point is almost all vehicles in the category offer blind spot monitors. You can get those on the CX-5, CRV, Escape, etc... I cannot justify spending a good amount of money on a vehicle that does not offer BSM, when every other vehicle in the category does.

BSM and cross traffic alerting is standard on the 2018 Forester 2.0XT Touring. Just FYI.

 

[finch204]

BSM and cross traffic alerting is standard on the 2018 Forester 2.0XT Touring. Just FYI.

Good to know. I was looking at older CPO Forester 2.0XT models. Looks like they finally added BSM to the 2017 model year car.