Recent content by nickdeck

Sorry, but that Jeep is Fugly inside and out.

Subjective, but I just think the CX-5 is a much better looking vehicle. Also, I had a '95 Millennia which lasted forever, so that figured into it for me.

Silver over here, too. I've had mine for about a month and a half, and have not yet felt the need to go to the car wash. No, it's not spotless, but if it was black I'd have been to the car wash 4 or 5 times.

I haven't heard my CX-5 do it, but I've had a couple of cars that kept the radiator fan going for a bit after shutting off. Always in the summer time, though.

You, sir, have turned your car into a cartoon.

I have a feeling that the fact that we have a 4-cylinder engine makes a fairly large difference in driving at 55-65 mph vs. 75-85 mph. Just seems that maybe the engine has to work harder to maintain the higher speeds than a larger engine would. For me, based on the car's computer, at 75 mph, the...

Man, that's scary to hear about from a dealer. You'd expect that kind of screw up at a Jiffy Lube or someplace like that. I'd try to get some kind of documentation about it happening. Imagine if you had some kind of engine problem later, under warranty, and they find that it was caused by...

The dealer threw in the OEM all-weather mats on my car. After living with them through a couple of snow events, I'm sad to say I'm less than enthusiastic about them. Since I'm not out any cash for them (sorta), I may spring for the Weather Techs, at least in the front where the most traffic is...

Nothing to add, other than where I live, winter is almost over. I'll wait until next winter and hope that there are cheaper/better options than Mazda remote start.

Model is 2014 GT, FWD. Build date 12/12. Purchase date 2/15/13. Zero problems, 450 miles.

None here either, on my GT '14.

Deer wins every time against that little cracker box car. Just sayin'...

Please re-read my earlier post. I'm not necessarily interested in the exact temp of the coolant. I'm interested to know if the temp is different than what the gauge usually shows, and any gauge will show that. A car's coolant temp should run pretty much the same all the time. If, for whatever...

OK, thanks. I wasn't fully aware of the various conditions of the temp lights. Good to know.

The reason I miss an actual gauge goes back to a '95 Mazda Millennia that I used to own. It had a gauge, and I would regularly glance at it to see what it read. Yes, it might not have been absolutely accurate, temp-wise. But I became used to where that needle usually sat. At some point, it...