RE: Tyre wear on UK Mazda 5
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RE: Tyre wear on UK Mazda 5 - 3/21/2007 6:48:01 PM
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toggie
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Thanks for your help and advice. I will try to get hold of Nicole tomorrow and keep you posted.
Toggie
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RE: Tyre wear on UK Mazda 5 - 3/21/2007 10:29:55 PM
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DouglasH
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Hi Toggie, My fellow Mx-5 Club Member went initially to a dealer in the West Of Scotland, as mentioned in my previous post. Normally they are a pretty good dealer and where we got our Mazda 5 from. If you could take your car to Callander I can reccommend the Dreadnought TVR Garage, this is where I get my own cars 4 wheel alignment done, excellent Garage and cheaper than Dealers. My friend took his Mx-5 to them and the mechanic checking the alignment was shocked at the settings, he had to adjust the alignment bolts quite a bit before they would even register on the state of the art machine. Good luck.
edited to remove names.DouglasH
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RE: Tyre wear on UK Mazda 5 - 3/22/2007 4:05:35 AM
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toggie
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Thanks DouglasH. Im afraid I did plan to go to Linwood to get my wheel alignment checked but not until the middle of next month. Am i wrong to assume that it has to be a Mazda dealer who looks at my problem, so as to keep the car warranty up and running?
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RE: Tyre wear on UK Mazda 5 - 3/22/2007 5:08:58 AM
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CharlottenEddiesdad
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ORIGINAL: Dads_Taxi
Might I suggest that we all e-mail the Honest John column as mentioned in CharlottenEddiesdad's posting on March 19th? Getting the press to put some pressure on Mazda UK can't harm our cause. Has anyone approached any of the newspaper motoring columns? There was an item on BBC Watchdog tonight regarding Renault bonnets popping open, and pressure from the programme has helped convince Renault to recall the model (think it was a Clio).
It's worth a try.
Dave
Great idea, and is definitely worth a punt.
Here is the email address to do so..
letters@honestjohn.co.uk
I have just sent a missive his way.
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RE: Tyre wear on UK Mazda 5 - 3/22/2007 5:26:15 AM
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CharlottenEddiesdad
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ORIGINAL: toggie
Thanks DouglasH. Im afraid I did plan to go to Linwood to get my wheel alignment checked but not until the middle of next month. Am i wrong to assume that it has to be a Mazda dealer who looks at my problem, so as to keep the car warranty up and running?
Greetings Toggie!
I don't think it would harm your warranty to get an independant garage to look at it. Where you may hit stony ground is if they actually change anything.....
I took my car to an independant speciallist, who claimed that the rear "thrust" was 2mm out. Makes no sense to me, but when I took the car to my dealer they said and have always said that the settings were within the tolerances.... I said then and continue to say that is a cop out.
Also you never know when they have said that if they have actually changed the settigns and just not told you......
I suspect that is what has happened to me, because my dealer has had a change of service manager, and the new manager said almost as much as the settings they changed when they rotated the tyres seem to have slowed the wear down.....
The last service manager said very strongly that no settings had been changed on my car......
I do not suppose I will ever know the truth......
Good luck anyway, it must be an even bigger pain having to travel so far to get this sorted. My wife has just about had enough of the car........ (She drives it most.... I have a MX5..... far more sensible)
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RE: Tyre wear on UK Mazda 5 - 3/22/2007 2:55:54 PM
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DouglasH
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Whatever you do make sure you obtain a before and after print out, if the car is having the work done under warranty you could always have it checked by an independant alignment place afterwards or show them the print out for advice.Other than that it may just be worth getting the trusted independant to carry out the work for peace of mind.
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