Greetings Dean, welcome to the gang!

You have a right to moan and if you read the sorry tales in this and other threads, you will soon find. If you don't moan and complain and keep complaining, MMUK will merrily ignore you.
If you are lucky you will have a good dealer who will support you, but even then it is worth persuing every gripe to the nth degree to get full satisfaction......
Which is of course what we all want.

 

Hi Dean, welcome to our (un)Merry Gang!

I think it's worthy of a seperate thread, but it's a good point you makethat the Sat-Nav does not switch from Day to Night when it's set to Auto. Mine doesn't either ***

(edit)*** Next morning I tried Auto mode again- I apologise, it DOES work on my car, it just makes the map un-readable if the lights are on due to rain/poor visibility, so I decided against it.

However, it's not really needed. Had a good play with mine recently and sorted it out to my satisfaction:

Select Day mode from the User Settings, then exit the menus (return, return.....) and go back to map.
With side-lights off, press and hold the "Voice/Display" button on the remote control (very bottom button) until a menu appears.
Select "Adj" (for, obviously, Adjust)
Two sliders appear for Brightness and Contrast - up/down selects which slider you adjust, left/right adjusts the brightness or contrast up and down. Set the brightness and contrast to your satisfaction.

Then switch on the side-lights.... a different set of Brighness and Contrast sliders appear. Adjust these to suit darker conditions.

Then either return to exit or it just vanishes after a few seconds, and it cleverly remembers the two different brighness/contrast settings for lights on and lights off state.

I was so pleased when I worked this out, as on rainy days I was putting my lights on and the screen was going so dark I couldn't read it, and the camera was useless with the lights on.

Hope this helps you.

I'm afraid the problems with the tyre wear and groaning steering are just too sensitive a subject for me at the moment!!!! I wish I could use a time machine and cancel the order for my car!

Dave.

 

Hello, Well I'm from the USA and live in Ohio outside off the "tire capitol" Akron/Canton. I have a Mazda5 Touring with 25,000mi on the clock. At 15,000mi the tires were showing very bad wear on the insides. @20k they were totally gone and went to the dealer here for an alignment and to all our surprise they were in spec. I then took it to an independant front end shop 500 mi later and they agreed that the vehicle was in spec. But they didn't like the -2 degree camber in the rear and said it shouldn't be that much but there was no camber adjustment in the rear. The dealeras per usual they didn't know a thing about the inside tire wear issue. I had been reading the UK postings and knew I had a problem. I'm at 25k and am now in the process of getting new tires. I am dealing with the dealer who is dealing with a Japanese bloke who is suspose to get back to me with what ever. I have heard all the same responses from the dealer that you all have stated. Faulty/Bad tires, soft tire compound, wheel alignment, tire belt and chasis miss match problem ect. All talk and no action from what I have read on these forums. Tomorrow I go to meet with the Service Mangager here in Wooster Ohio at Park Mazda and he is going to get some pictures and push them to the Japanese tech rep. So we will see. Here the 5 comes with 17'alloy wheels and are equiped with Toyo Proxes A18 size 205/50/17. Also as I look at the rear of the vehicle you can see that the rear tires are riding on the inside, basically to much negative camber. I'm not crazy either cause everyone in the shop where I work sees it too. Well hopefully between you there in the uk and we here in N. America can get the Mazda Corp to do something definite about this. A problem here in the US is that there arent alot of the 5's sold. So I don't know how loud we can squeek to get any grease. Thanks for your ears.

 

Hi All,

took the car in for new front tyres yesterday, and at my request had Hankook Ventus fitted. Mazda UK didn'tsurprise meand gave a paltry £54 towards the cost (32%) of tyres which were so worn on the inner edge that the substrate was evident at only 11000 miles. Of course monitoring the tyres is now as routine as putting out the refuse or cleaning out the rabbits, but frankly I prefer the latter two as they are less depressing.

Dave

 

thanks Dave, sav nav no longer a problem, thats one off the list several to go.

P.S- if you find that time machine give me a shout, i wish i never looked at a Mazda (i know it's sad to say but i should of stayed with a german motor, my last 4 cars were Audi A4 Avants, 3 of them i took to at least 150000 and not a single problem, and tyres lasted a lot longer)

speak soon

dean

 

I have a 2004 speed with the same problem that is the only thing I don't like about the car mazda should fix this problem. 36,000 miles will be going on my third set they say to rotate the tires every 5,000 miles .

madza is owened by ford hope they don't turn them into one

 

Has this situation now been rectified????
Is it restricted to only 06 sport models????
Thinking of buying the 07 sport model????

 

If anyone has bought (or is thinking of buying) a lower spec car in the UK, I can report that our '07 1.8 TS2 has notyre wear issues at 5,000 miles - nor does it look like it's heading for a problem

I've been recording the tread depth faithfully at1,000 mile intervals and there is no significant or unveven wear.

Having said that, there is a report of poor wear on at least one 1.8 so I have to add that YMMV.

 

My advice would be not to buy a Mazda, full stop. You can get a good dealer, but you are still subject to the whims of Mazda UK and they now have a proven track record of being uncooperative ("slippery" probably best describes them). They swear on a stack of bibles that they'll return your call, but it will always be you that has to ring back. Bitter and twisted? I should say so, and I used to be a choir boy!

Dave

 

I have a Furano (56 plate)which was serviced on Saturday (not by Mazda). I was advised of uneven wear on front tyres (inside).Car hasn't done 6000 milesyet! Foundthis forum on Sunday.

Couldn't believe that this issue had been going on for such a long time. Emailed watchdog about it and mentioned as part of my emailthe potential risk to my 2 children. One is 8 weeks old and the other is 23 months old. Also mentioned that I would be contacting my local Mazda dealer.

Called Mazda dealerand the car is booked in for Thursday and Friday. They advised that they are fully aware of the situation re the cars and that they will replace tyres and realign wheels. Cost of new tyre to be split between myselft and Mazda based on wear. They also assured my that this would fix the problem and that I wouldn't be going back to them time and time again. I mentioned that I had read of customersbeing on their 4th set of tyres. I didn't tell them that I had contacted watchdog.

I'll let you know whatthe Mazda dealer does. I'll make sure that whatever fix they provideis documented.