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    Our dealer hates educated customers

    We bought our 2008 5 from them as a certified used which is most cases is just an excuse to charge a little more because the extended warranty it provides is rarely used. No so with us... The transmission started a hard shift from 3-4 which resulted in a tranny replacement. No real problems...
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    HVAC control lights

    Isn't the fan speed control supposed to be illuminated? The left 2 controls are, the right one is not in our 5 and since I don't drive it enough to remember and my wife doesn't pay attention to details like that, I'm not sure. I just noticed the other night it wasn't lit. I have a feeling it...
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    bad wheel bearing with 79k miles

    I know it's a fairly common thing on Mazdas nowadays it seems, but we have a bad right rear bearing. I always thought the loud road noise was from our tires, and even found 3 out of the 4 had flat spots (Falken ZE912) so got new BFG tires this week and the noise didn't change at all. Anyway, I...
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    5 bikes on our 5, suggestions?

    I have a 2-bike hitch rack that I keep on my Accord most of the time and have a hitch on the 5. I'm looking at getting the Inno roof rack for the 5 so we can take the entire family plus 5 bikes on trips. Is that even doable? The rack would only be on for trips, so wider than normal crossbars...
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    First the transmission, now the catalytic converter @ 65,000 miles

    On a road trip last weekend, the engine light came on after filling up for the drive home. I assumed it was the gas cap, but it was tight. It was running fine, so we got home and had Autozone check the code to get a P0421 which is oxygen sensor/catalytic converter. We just bought the 08 back...
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    hard shifts into 4th gear, get pcm reprogrammed?

    Our Mazda5 is a 2008 with 60,000 miles. It's a certified used so under that warranty right now which is good. Anyway, it pretty much slams into 4th gear, most of the time. I had it in right after we bought it for alignment/few other issues and mentioned this. When I picked it up, they said...
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    First Mazda for me, second for my wife

    Second Mazda for both me and my wife Within 2 weeks, our van was hit at a red light and the transmission started crapping out on my Accord, so soon after we got the insurance check for the van's damage we started shopping. We've been eye-ing a a 5 for a long time and after 2 test drives...
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    pre-buy Mazda5 questions

    We've looked/test driven a 5 including an overnight so we could see how carpool with 5 kids goes and so far so good with a few exceptions. The one we drove was a 2009 and the antenna hits our garage door and on the way outis a pretty hard bend. Any shorter ones that work well? The rear seat...
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