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I got mine done at Krown on Lakeshore at the end of November. When I talked to one of the guys there they had already done a number of CX-5 prior to doing mine. They were actually surprised by the number of CX-5s they were getting. The guys there did a good job. Plugs have to be where they...

Before I bought the CX-5 the kind of vehicle I was looking for was something with decent utility room (throwing mountain bikes in the back) and good fuel economy with regular gas (came from Acura TL.. premium gas.. boo). I test drove the new Impreza and the Crosstrek before buying the CX-5. For...

Not sure if you get cool enough weather to require winter tires or not, but my manual says to increase PSI by 4 when switching to winters. I do have the GT (so 19" rims, @ 36 PSI), but have switched to 17" rims for winter. The 17" are currently at 40 PSI now. If you Google the reasons why you...

I accidently left a couple boxes of Bounce Sheets in the car. Now it smells like clean laundry every time I open the door.

Saw two today in Ottawa ON. First one was a silver one that had its front end crunched from an accident... :(, and white GT on a drive along the Parkway.

I have put winter tires on my GT AWD. I have done this for any other 2WD car I have owned as well. I think it is necessary to put winter tires on any car where you get any accumulation of snow unless you have the option of some other form of transportation whenever it snows (or gets cold/icy)...

I bought a GT dealer demo (the dealers GM was driving it)... The avg on it was 16l/100km!!! It took a week to bring the avg down to 10l/100km. I have since brought it down to 8.7l/100km. I drive about 50% city / 50% hwy (although in Toronto 401 does that really count?? Stop and go...).