WOW!! It"s good that Mazda seems to have finally solved this problem w/the "09"s! I wonder if they thenhave new alignment specs for the earlier models?

 

Yes its a shame because we like the car but dont want to be putting on front tyres every 10k max.

Its definately the inside edges as I had the front wheels off over xmas:

NSF definately worse but OSF not good for 7k miles



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That wear is really weird it appears on the extreme edge, I have just checked my tyres again and there is no sign of that type of wear. In fact your's are wearing roughly on the line between normal wear and no wear on my tyres. You havn't got any loose body work in the arch? or anything rubbing the tyre?

Wish I could help, but it's not occuring on mine, so one assumes it must be fixable, whatever is causing it.

 

Do you have the 17" Alloys in Canada ?

 

My 2007 furano (UK) has had the wheels aligned 3 times. The first set of tyres lasted 10,000 miles and wore out the inner edges. Rear shock blown after 12000 miles. Noticed today that the rear tyres have worn to 1mm on the inner edge with the rest at about 8mm. The other rear shock has blown as well. All at 22,000 miles.

 

Bought the dame thing back in nov 08 (06 reg) and it has developed 6 different problems so far, all repaired under warranty, decided to get an extended 3 year warranty now.

What happened to the japanese reliability?

 

I bought a 56 reg Mazda 5 Sport 2.0 in October 07, what issues did you have? I've only anecdotal evidence but tyre wear has been a problem.

Also, been reading through this thread with some interest. What are the general issues and what could I get Mazda to fix under warranty?

 

I would ask them to look at the power steering noise when turning on the reverse, on my car it made a loud trumpet sound (not on all occasions), pedestrians would stop turn and look at the car!. Told by Mazda that it was a know problem & the part (pipes of some sort)would be orders to rectify the problem.

Noise from back suspension. As we live near a school and speed pumps are on every road, was told that two links on the back suspension have worn (saw them, approximately 25 cm long and connect the body to the suspension) and were touching something or another, they got replaced

On 2 different occasions all car window went down to the half open position by them self, of course first time it happened my wife through the little one played around with them but then it happened a second time & whats worrying it happened when we locked the car and left it to shop.

Not sure if related to the problem above, but the driver side Auto UP/DOWN stopped working and the motor had to be changed

The back clip that hold the third row seat belts in place broke.I know this problem might sound silly but its really frustrating as if this part breaks then the back luggage cover does not close properly.

Car horn had to be replaced.

The car would not stop swaying to the left on motorways, X 3 wheel alignments @ £50 each & 1 tyre change now I think the car is normal.

The gear lever spring mechanism failed, you know when you select reverse, you need to press the gear lever down and push left, well the gear lever stopped going back up, so I had to forcefully pull it back up to get in to first every time.


And to garnish the open wound with some salt, the wife had an unfortunate shunt in the replacement car when our car was in for one of its many trips to the dealer.




Mazda sandicliffe sold me the car and have been very untrustworthy & Mazda MKG 3000 have been trying to solve all the car problems with great care.


Took the car to Sandicliffe for the servicing that they said they did but didn't, to have it done for real this time, they changed my front 2 tyres without first consulting me, but nothing in my head clicked till I drove off.


I drive a Mazda 5 sport D & the car covered 15K

 

I will agree with most of the above. See my post in this thread where I've answered a similar question:

https://www.mazdaforum.com/forum/mazda5-43/new-potential-mazda-5-owner-has-questions-17737/

The previous contributer described the gear linkage problem much better than I did! What I described as "wonky" was exactly as described above.

Regarding "the driver side Auto UP/DOWN stopped working and the motor had to be changed", this function stops working regularly on mine - maybe every 6 months. It's soon fixed by going through the calibration set-up as detailed in the manual, it is a computer glitch (in my case).

Also, did the suspension mod work?

I suppose we'd better mention TYRE WEAR again, as this is the tyre wear thread!

Dave.

 

Even with all the problems it got, it really is an enjoyable car to drive. Will that counter balance the headache it put me through, well, I bought a 3 year warranty haven't I, in it for the long haul.

The back suspension is much quieter now.