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- 2023 CX-5 Premium; 2018 Mazda 3 GT hatch
(gah)
What have you done to your CX-5 today?
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Johnny Danger
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- 2014 CX-5 GT
I graduated from high school in Texas. You guys are lucky I can use full sentences with punctuation.
Bad grammar in my initial post, but I think you're all clever enough to figure out what actually happened.
Bad grammar in my initial post, but I think you're all clever enough to figure out what actually happened.
Johnny Danger
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- 2014 CX-5 GT
Holy cow, I don't think I'd have left the lot with that car unless they assured me they had a new bumper on order. I live in a state that requires front plates, but if I didn't and had purchased a brand new car, there is no way I'd let them put holes in it.
Sailingeric
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- 2016.5 Cx-5 Touring, 2007 Mazda 3 GT
I drove from just outside to Portland to Leavenworth Washington and back over the weekend. Got 29.7 MPG over the 600 mile R/T drive, which is not too back considering I had a couple high passes (4000 ft +) to climb.
How fast were you going? I just did the drive from Portland to Seattle and got 26. Avg 79mph.
Sailingeric
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- 2016.5 Cx-5 Touring, 2007 Mazda 3 GT
I stayed with the flow of traffic- 70 to 75 with touching 80 here and there. I went up the Gorge and through Yakima going and then over Stevens pass on the way back, got stuck for an hour outside of Gold Bar to Sultan creeping along due to some fender bender, that really took a bite out of the 30+ mpg I was getting.
The grill doesn’t look as stupid as the MRCC module.
The Toyo Proxes R36 have a treadwear rating of 300. I got about 35000 miles out of them. They are rated C for rolling resistance (fuel efficiency), C for Wet Braking and 69dB for noise which is relatively quiet.
A lot of the alternatives I found rated equal or worse than the above though the tread ratings can be much higher than the Toyo's.
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- Plano, Texas, USA
Similar oil or ATF leak in that area has been reported several times.
May be the previous owner put in a charcoal cabin air filter which looks dirty even in new.
Johnny Danger
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- 2014 CX-5 GT
Similar oil or ATF leak in that area has been reported several times.
May be the previous owner put in a charcoal cabin air filter which looks dirty even in new.
Actually, I put in a new charcoal filter, so maybe that's why I wrote that confusing sentence. (lol2) But the old one was a standard white filter full of dirt, leaves, etc.
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- Denver, CO
Johnny Danger
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- 2014 CX-5 GT
So after I dropped off the car yesterday, they set me up with a 2017 CX-5 as a loaner. Holy crap, the throttle response was SO much better than my 2014. I know they remapped things a bit, but I feel like my engine might be showing it's age a little. I kind of wonder if it saw a lot of city driving with not much hard driving and got a lot of carbon built up on the intake valves. I went deep into the intake valve cleaning rabbit hole last night. Apparently these engines are better at avoiding buildup, but some high rpm driving helps a lot. I'll try that out when I get mine back. If not, I might check the MAF and maybe prematurely replace spark plugs.
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- Plano, Texas, USA
Please report back what your dealers finding on your oil leak, preferably post your experience in the following thread:
Small Oil leak for me too... :-(
Spark plugs? If you go for true OEM Mazda plugs as suggested by many including owners manual, youll be surprised how expensive theyll be! (boom08)
Johnny Danger
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- 2014 CX-5 GT
I'll go ahead and post on that thread with the picture I sent to the dealer and update accordingly.
As far as spark plugs, I went down that rabbit hole last night as well. I found the Denso OEM style ones an Amazon and will probably go with those.
As far as spark plugs, I went down that rabbit hole last night as well. I found the Denso OEM style ones an Amazon and will probably go with those.
Hello everyone! New member here. I picked up my CX-5 GT over a month ago and have done some subtle aesthetic mods to it since then. Mostly applying 3M 1080 matte black vinyl to the window trim. Matte black tint to the third brake light. LED upgrade to my interior (ebay kit) and exterior lighting. Finally found a built-in resistor LED bulb from iJDMtoy that fit in the housing with no problem. The rear pic shows incandescent (left) versus LED (right). Been really liking the new model and materials used throughout. It feels very well built and solid for the value. It's complimented my transition into fatherhood very well. Hope you like the pics.
Could you tell me where you got this and what was the installation method. Do you need to drill holes etc.
I want this so badly before the winter. I need the Aluminum Foot rest and maybe the Brake and gas pedal too..... The OEM cost about $300 plus labor so around $450 is what i was quoted by dealership since they said it involves drilling through body frame for some reason on the foot rest and the pedal total.
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- 2023 CX-5 Premium; 2018 Mazda 3 GT hatch
Upside down?
Sticky tires.
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- Plano, Texas, USA
I personally would go for Mazda OEM spark plugs as our Owners Manual (strongly) suggested. Although the OEM plug looks the same as NGKs but twice more expensive, I do remember some SkyActiv tuner (OrangeVirus Tuning?) says theyre different and its very important to use Mazda OEM plugs. Id at least try NGK, not Denso.
