Power steering failure on Mazda5 (TSB: 06-002/09)
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Off topic, but where in East TN do you live? I moved to KY from Fairfield Glade near Crossville. I lived there for a job.
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- 2008 Mazda5 5MT Sport w/ Popular Package
Oh dear, with the Mazda3s included I'm sure there will be nobody at the dealer, it should be a breeze to get an appointment 
Rockin03mp5
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- '13 Mazda3 / '13 Edge / Your Mom
Rockin03mp5
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- '13 Mazda3 / '13 Edge / Your Mom
seem any different? i noticed a lot less of the "whine".
Rockin03mp5
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- '13 Mazda3 / '13 Edge / Your Mom
hmm... mine made a lot less whine when steering after the fix.
well, after 42,xxx miles, I finally had a power steering failure on my 2009 5. Took about 10 mins of cycling/starting the engine for the light to go off and me to get outta my parking spot! I made the call to the dealer and get it fixed Monday (under the recall of course!) 
Rockin03mp5
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- '13 Mazda3 / '13 Edge / Your Mom
im surprised all you 09's havent had it fixed yet. mine never failed and was replaced a long time ago.
Well, it hadn't failed and I was knee deep in a major project from Feb '10 up until two weeks ago. I went on vacation and it failed repeatedly. I now have time to take it two hours away to the dealer this Saturday. Believe me, I wanted it done before now.
^^^ Sorry to hear J.P. I now have a recall apparently on my brand new '11 Civic Si, too. I guess we should be grateful that the companies will even fix the problems that they are causing us. My Ford Focus was falling apart with only 24,000 miles and four different Ford dealers wouldn't do anything about any of the problems. The flywheel was loose (can you even imagine something so ridiculous?) and making terrible noise under warranty and none of them would do a thing. I'm just glad Mazda, and now Honda, are fixing the problems. other than this issue on our 5, the car has been perfect really.
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That is true. I always prefer to see these problems being taken care of - as opposed to pretending they don't exist. It's the time involved that must be embarrassing to both Mazda, and the dealers. I was in at my dealer before our big trip in October, and they said because we had the failure during the summer, we would be at the front of the line. As of last week, they still have no parts supply. We finally got our second letter today, so I will drop in tomorrow to see what the latest ETA for parts is.
Weird. I called on a Tuesday to schedule a tranny flush and the service guy had the parts for the PS recall on Saturday when I went in. Good luck.
Today my wife stopped in at my work (1 km down the road from our Mazda dealer), and told me the PS cut out twice in one trip across town. I told her to keep going down to Mazda, and tell them we have the second letter in hand, and on the first warm day here we lost power steering twice. He told her they still have no parts, and to keep checking in with them. They were not even willing to call her, she has to call them at the beginning of each week to check.
Looks like Mazda CR will be getting a call from us tomorrow...
Looks like Mazda CR will be getting a call from us tomorrow...
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- 2008 Mazda5 5MT Sport w/ Popular Package
They don't do it out of good will though, the NHTSA comes and gets them if they fail to do something about it
Honda? My 2011 family hauler model (Launched in Sep last year): 8 TSBs and 2 recalls already, Hondas rock (evil). I had no choice but the get the 1st year of the redesign (again). At least not all apply to my VIN (rolleyes)
Some people never learn (lol2)
Mazda Canada CR still sucks - let me get that out of the way. Useless as tits on a bull. I had my wife call them, and they referred her back to the dealership. Total waste of time on hold/ignore.
So what to do? I came home and CR was closed (8:30am-4:30pm - not even banks do those hours anymore!). Put a call in to my old dealer in Toronto "No problem - come by, we will shoot you a loaner while you are in town. Come back in a few hours and it will be good to go". Did I mention that I have never bought a car from them - only parts for my GTX 12 years ago!!! My dealer here has sold two Mazdas in 8 years to me together worth over CDN$50K!!! Now pissed off completely, I called the very nice lady we bought the car from (service here in K-Town long closed at 5:00pm). She is going to call tomorrow after speaking with the manager, and promises to make it happen. I wonder if it ever occurred to them that I have never taken advantage of their "referral program". If the product wasn't as good as it is, I would never think of buying another one.
So what to do? I came home and CR was closed (8:30am-4:30pm - not even banks do those hours anymore!). Put a call in to my old dealer in Toronto "No problem - come by, we will shoot you a loaner while you are in town. Come back in a few hours and it will be good to go". Did I mention that I have never bought a car from them - only parts for my GTX 12 years ago!!! My dealer here has sold two Mazdas in 8 years to me together worth over CDN$50K!!! Now pissed off completely, I called the very nice lady we bought the car from (service here in K-Town long closed at 5:00pm). She is going to call tomorrow after speaking with the manager, and promises to make it happen. I wonder if it ever occurred to them that I have never taken advantage of their "referral program". If the product wasn't as good as it is, I would never think of buying another one.
