What have you done to your CX-5 today?

[Moonlighter]

Though, with more and more people failing to carry jump cables, it's one of those "insurance" items for many. Could have done one of the CAT brand AGM units, for a bit more $green, but it's about 30x the size. Lugging that beast around would probably get me a discount at the gym.

We makes our choices and takes our chances, don't we, whichever choices we make.

I have had a jump starter for several years. My other car is a 4WD and we do go to remote areas sometimes. It lives behind the 4WD’s back seat. Its about 8” long and 3” wide, 1/2” thick. Not very heavy.

Never used it on one of my cars, but have used it on several other cars where the battery was so dead there was barely a click when the car key was turned on, an no crank at all. One if them was an old V8 diesel ute.

Connected up. Cars all cranked and fired up immediately. Did it easy.

Its also got usb plugs for charging phones etc, a 12v output plug and an inbuilt led light.

 

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Replaced the spark plugs today, at 180.403 miles. O’Reilly NKG Laser Iridium. The old ones were the same. Installed them back in October but decided to replace them after 20.000 miles or so.

 

[paris1]

Replaced the spark plugs today, at 180.403 miles. O’Reilly NKG Laser Iridium. The old ones were the same. Installed them back in October but decided to replace them after 20.000 miles or so.

Why?

 

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Why?

Because I wanted new spark plugs.

 

[hsdejong]

Because I wanted new spark plugs.

Why do you want new spark plugs after 20,000 mi?

 

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Why do you want new spark plugs after 20,000 mi?

Why... Because the car just passed 180.000 miles and I decided that it wouldn't hurt to replace the spar plugs after only 20.000 miles. That's a lot of mileage if you ask me and a little preventive maintenance would help. Will I do it again after next 20K miles? I don;t know. The car runs just fine, didn't need new spark plugs, but like I said it earlier: I wanted new spark plugs.

 

[hsdejong]

Have it your way. If it makes you happy
But it might lead others to believe it's wise to replace the spark plugs that early, even though it's only necessary after 75,000 miles. Replacing them sooner offers no real benefit—neither in terms of maintenance nor fuel efficiency.

 

[7eregrine]

No..it wouldn't hurt. But it didn't help either.

 

[HyFlyer]

... Because the car just passed 180.000 miles ...

Curious, have you ever done any carbon cleaning of the intake systems / ports / valves either chemically or mechanically? We have a 2016.5 cx5 approaching 200,000 miles untouched and I'm thinking of doing a walnut shell blasting of the ports and cleaning out the intake.

 

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Curious, have you ever done any carbon cleaning of the intake systems / ports / valves either chemically or mechanically? We have a 2016.5 cx5 approaching 200,000 miles untouched and I'm thinking of doing a walnut shell blasting of the ports and cleaning out the intake.

Never done any carbon cleaning, did a throttle body cleaning and that’s it, simple stuff. I was thinking about doing a walnut blasting, contacted a local shop for a quote but never got a response. I guess they deal only with high end cars and cx-5 is beneath them.

 

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No..it wouldn't hurt. But it didn't help either.

Since replacing spark plugs at 20 K generated so many smiles, I will replace them again at 10k, only to see everybody laughing out loud!

 

[jadmt]

Since replacing spark plugs at 20 K generated so many smiles, I will replace them again at 10k, only to see everybody laughing out loud!

I don't think it is bad to check them at 20K and if going to the work of checking them why not replace them. how did the ones you replaced look? did you measure the gap?

 

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I don't think it is bad to check them at 20K and if going to the work of checking them why not replace them. how did the ones you replaced look? did you measure the gap?

0.044 just checked.

 

[Lanjiao]

Simple diy job since our car doesn’t come with a glove box light with 4000kevin led.

 

[SBMongoos]

Simple diy job since our car doesn’t come with a glove box light with 4000kevin led.

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How did you set this up?

 

[hsdejong]

My CX-5 came with a glovebox light. But it doesn't turn on when opening the glovebox - it turns on with the headlights.
I replaced the incandescent bulb with a bright white LED light.

 

[sm1ke]

Simple diy job since our car doesn’t come with a glove box light with 4000kevin led.

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Now that is a nice mod! Very well done!

If you're open to providing additional info, I'd love to do this mod myself on my CX-9. I always found it odd that the glove box doesn't have it's own light.

 

[Jmaz]

Agree on the lack of a glove box light. Some other annoyances due to Mazda's cost cutting are the lack of window switch button lighting except for the drivers window. Also no courtesy lights on the front floor foot wells or at the bottom of the door panels. The cargo area could have had more lighting also. Not aware if they improved on these things on the Gen2 /and or upscale models.

 

[Lanjiao]

Now that is a nice mod! Very well done!

If you're open to providing additional info, I'd love to do this mod myself on my CX-9. I always found it odd that the glove box doesn't have it's own light.

I’ll find some times to write up a diy guide.

 

[yieldchase]

My rear link kit came undone, I tried to tighten it but felt it stripping so ordered a replacement.

Lasted 30k km / 18.6k miles

Bought MOOG K750671 to try. Mostly for the ability to use a wrench vs hex to tighten. I think you need 18 mm to hold it if you’re curious.

After installing it… not sure if there is a difference to be honest. Hex gets stuck. This one cramps up my hands In both cases there isn’t a lot of room. I used some knipex pliers to hold and it’s easy to tear the boots. Time will tell.