That is crazy talk...a digital camera??? It isn't like they are found in every single cell phone made in the last ten years.
Body dented by itself - Skyactive = Flimsy?
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That is crazy talk...a digital camera??? It isn't like they are found in every single cell phone made in the last ten years.
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Ok I couldn't resist. It was 90 degrees yesterday and since my wife did not have to go anywhere I left the hatch open for 6 hours 10:00 to 4:00 PM. in direct sunlight. I am happy to report that the entire body maintained its original form.
SayNoToPistons
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My CX-5 sits out in the driveway 24/7. It's been over 90*F here the past week, everyday. Hell, it even hit 103*f two-three days ago. Went out yesterday to vacuum the damn thing with all doors open. It didn't crumble on me.
Though I am afraid that with the highest torsional and tensile strength unibody in its class (like most Mazda's in history), firefighters will have to use arts & crafts scissors to cut me out of the vehicle when I drive it on the s*** roads of NYC on a hot summer day.
SayNoToPistons
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Going to need a better angle. Also that won't be a main compression, tensile, nor shear stress point of the hinges and shock mount from the hatch... If anything, it would be under tensile force with an open hatch, but it wouldn't form a dent there without dorming a concave dent in the roof first....
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Jokes aside, if thats the section I'm thinking it's at- Thats a pretty tough section to dent. I'm not an expert but car sheet metal has "memory" to want to stay a certain shape probably down to the molecule level. It's all dent specialists jargon but there's some truth to it. I still think a foreign object caused the dent.
I washed my CX5 today for the first time, I was rather surprised to find the roof give, just with the weight of the sponge!
I've also spent two days under the car painting the chassis/ steel work, tomorrow I'm having a tow bar fitted, so I gave the rear of the car extra attention, I've got to say the chassis is nowhere near as strong as my previous car a Nissan Xtrail, which is probably why the max nose weight (tongue) is only 88kg in the UK, the xtrail was 100kg.
The Mazda is a lightweight car, so a deformed roof were the hatch is connected is entirely possible.
I've also spent two days under the car painting the chassis/ steel work, tomorrow I'm having a tow bar fitted, so I gave the rear of the car extra attention, I've got to say the chassis is nowhere near as strong as my previous car a Nissan Xtrail, which is probably why the max nose weight (tongue) is only 88kg in the UK, the xtrail was 100kg.
The Mazda is a lightweight car, so a deformed roof were the hatch is connected is entirely possible.
It is flexi! I noticed that with the roof too, I leaned against a door and it buckles in, lean across to lift a wiper before washing and the bonnet flexis an inch,, put your finger about 5 inches up the bonnet from the headlight and move a couple inches outwards and press gentle...like pressing plastic, it is pretty shocking the first time you realise it.
SayNoToPistons
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Lightweight does not necessarily mean it is weak... There are different grades of alloys with different carbon counts with different tensile strengths. Being lightweight doesn't even remote relate to deformation...
Do me a favor and look up the torsional stiffness and rigidity of the SkyActiv chassis. That includes the Mazda6 as both run on nearly identical underpinnings. Then look at front and side impact ratings.
I didn't notice the bonnet flex.
I started on the roof as normal, so after that flexed I was careful not to be so heavy handed.
I've had the bonnet up (hood) and was surprised that it was so heavy.
Overall I'm very happy with the quality of the car.
I started on the roof as normal, so after that flexed I was careful not to be so heavy handed.
I've had the bonnet up (hood) and was surprised that it was so heavy.
Overall I'm very happy with the quality of the car.
I was surprised it was heavy too and that it needed an old fashioned bar to hold it up. Too used to vw plushness in the previous years! Flexi is fine, light and good fuel consumption. I'm sure it works perfect in a crash as the tests have proven, it doesn't cause me any concern at all.
You had better inspect it for damage more carefully - there is no way such a flimsy car could handle a tailgating party without some kind of visible damage!
I don't know if your New England mosquitoes are as big as the ones here in the NW but I saw my hood buckle when one landed on it. Now I mix DEET in with my car wax and haven't had any further mosquito damage.
But I'm really starting to worry about horsefly season. lol!
Seriously folks, we've already heard first hand accounts of CX-5's that survived hailstorms without a single dent. I have no worries that the CX-5 is durable. If they were susceptible to denting on their own the dealer lot would be full of dented CX-5's.
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I have to add it is obvious Mazda was extremely diligent in shedding pounds with the CX-5. The hood tremble, mirror shake, etc was immediately apparent to me on the test drive. My wife's MZ5 is somewhat fragile in the hatch area, too. Noticed this while at a drive-in backed up with the hatch open for the kids earlier this year. As you open/close the hatch slowly you can see the hatch area around the hinges flex quite a bit.
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So I went out to my car and tried pressing on the sheet metal in the area you have the dent. It's actually a pretty solid area and the metal doesn't really want to deform much. If you want to feel soft, press down on parts of the hood or roof. However, when I opened the rear hatch, the area of the dent is about the same height of where the bottom of the gas struts mount. And the way the sheet metal has been shaped and welded, it seems plausible that if the gas strut mounts were pulled from someone trying to over extend the gas struts, it could flex the dented area in such a way to where it would bend the sheet metal inward, forming the dent.
This would also explain why there is a similar deformation on the opposite side. Maybe the upwards force to over extend the trunk was done on the driver side?
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Any chance someone tried to back it in or out of an opening with the hatch open and caught the hatch on the top edge of the opening?
Yes, most of us are thinking something very similar (as noted in earlier posts).
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