Recent content by chris77

Morning Cheating here a bit to hopefully save some time looking for my knock . I have a 2013 with 160 thou kms, or 100thou miles , and it has a distinct knock as the front tyre hits a bump or travels over a sudden depression in the road . Was wondering whats the weak bush in the front...

Google versatune . May be something you are looking for . Cheers Chris

Thought I would check back in and see if there was anymore comments . When I saw the video from December , thats a blown head to me . Its not just the bubbles its the white stain on the engine cover that is not a good sign . Interesting to hear of more also being fixed under warranty . I...

My car is a 2013 build . As other posts say the oil is diluted by the regen cycle from the get go not only on high mile cars . This was an issue with the diesel from new and a software update was done to help the issue . I do not know much about it as I never brought the car new . I still do not...

The trouble is I have only had the car since 105,000km's , only done 35,000 in it . No idea how it was driven the first 100,000 . As all of us I expect , I think I drive it quite easily . Fuel use is 6.7l/100km , I live 800m from the highway and work is again less than 1km from it so it does...

Mazda covered all the costs . They have installed a new long block . Given it has 140,000 km (~85,000 miles) on it and I did not buy it new , in fact brought it outside factory warranty , I was very surprised . I was not even planning to contact them about it , lucky I did . Cheers Chris

Well I got my car back from mazda on friday , they had it for nearly three weeks . Still cant complian , they replaced the engine . Not driven it yet but I expect all will be fine . After driving a little swift for 3 weeks it will be good to drive this again , a cats eye (road edge marker) feels...

No overheating prior but the day before I noticed temp was up a few degrees on normal , that propted the watr level check . I got it a bit warm on the test drive after filling the radiator thou , got to just over 100 getting back home . Anyway at this stage its gone to mazda for checking out ...

Yep , I believe thats where my missing litre or so of oil has gone . The engine has no visable leaks . Its hard to tell as the coolant is still reasonably green but does feel a tad oily . Will compare it to another cx5 tomorrow . Contact the dealer tomorrow and see what they say/would do but I...

Do you mean any indication of head failure in the oil , ie water contamination etc . No , oil looks fine except it is only half full when I would expect it to be over full 500km off an oil change . Cheers Chris

Anyone replaced or had there head gasket replaced on a cx5 2.2 diesel ? Initial thoughts are I just blew mine, bubbles and throws water out the radiator cap . Its due a service in 500kms so I would expect the oil to be full or over fill and its only at half but otherwise looks ok . Car has...