Hey guys it been a while. Well, we traded in our 5 almost a year ago for a small SUV with 4 overlapping rings on the grill. At trade-in last year the 5 had less than 57K miles, but ever since some older guy clipped her driver's rear back in 2014 I was looking for a reason to get something different.
My wife still talks about her 5, she really liked it. She knew of the issues but at the end of the day I was the one dealing with all the problems. I considered looking at the CX-5 but decide against it out of principle due to Mazda's denial and refusal to correct the rear tire wear issue which I was left to correct myself laying on the garage floor for 3+ hours.
So after ten years (2005-2015) there were only SIX issues with the van:
1. rear tire wear on inner edge.
2. passenger sliding door never again unlocking from the outside after the "freezing door recall X2" which I probably should not have had done since we live in San Diego.
3. passenger side motor mount rupturing and oozed a thick gel down into the frame rail.
4. stumbling and dying accelerating from a stop, (I think Mazda replaced something to do with the Idle Air Control?).
5. driver's door window control stopped working for a week and one day just starting working again on it's own, (after purchasing on eBay a new motor or actuator, can't remember which one).
6. shock absorbers had to be replaced with less than 40K on odometer.
All in all was a pretty decent vehicle, just possibly a bit under engineered. Best of luck and enjoy.
Later,
Albert