Work order receipt.

Betelgeuse said:
I would advise anyone who's had a problem (even if was just a loose bolt) to do the same. Here's where your voice would have some impact.

We really didn't want to come to this but the mount issue is very serious and Mazda hasn't said anything publicly yet about it so hopefully seeing the various complaints would get them to issue some kind of tsb or a recall. Rumors are floating around that they told some dealers to check the bolts but when asked, many denied knowing anything so that could just be a rumor and nothing else.

I also want to stress to anyone who might be reading this that I and many others have zero problems with their cars so this isn't widespread. However the number of people that have had problems is unsettling. I also checked my bolt at least twice already and it was torqued to spec.

a case study in exactly what betalgeuse just wrote:
i just took my ms3 into the shop for it's routine 4000 mile inspection/service. i have had zero problems to date with my car, but i asked the service people if they had heard anything about the mounts. they said they hadn't.
at first it seemed like they weren't going to do anything about my concerns because nothing was officially put out and it was more or less conveyed to me that "forums were just a place where people complained about their cars," but towards the end of writing up the work-order, one of the things that the system tacked on was to check mounting bolts of numerous systems.
the inspection took place not because of my concerns, but because of the flag that the computer system raised.
yes, big mazda may be hiding the exact truth by not pointing exactly at the engine mounts, but at least the mounts are being inspected.
i used brown mazda in fairfax virginia for the inspection.
 

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