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A buddy of mine has a Mazda 3 and just discovered how to unlock the Driver Information System so he can display fuel economy on the radio display. With all the similarities between the 3 and the 5 we tried to do it on my 5 with no luck. Some searching shows that the UK 5s have it. Anyone have...

Wife picked up the straightened rim and new tire today, $300. I'll take a look at it and put it back on tommorow. The question is, where do you get hub centric aftermarket rims? Or do I just have to move from the 100-200 range up to the 500+ range to get hub centric. (Which is what I'm trying...

In my ongoing attempts to get my bent rims replaced or repaired, I went to Just Tires today to get 4 new rims. From what I've read here, I thought I needed to get Hub centric replacements. Winter wheels thread Just tires said they don't have any Hub centric rims. I call Mazda Service and ask the...

Tirerack has a pretty cool web site that lets you pick your make model AND color vehicle. The page then displays a picture of your vehicle with stock wheels and rims. As you select different rims, it updates the picture so you can see what it will look like...

I wasn't with her when this happened, but she took me out to show me where it did happen. The white line is on the chunks of pavement in the bottom of the hole. It's not like she went wide on a curve and did some four wheeling on the shoulder. I aggree that if she was negligent she (We) should...

OK, if there is no curb on the side of the road and you damage the rim going off the edge and back on is it curb damage or a road hazzard? I have 3200 miles on Wifeys 5 and over the weekend she had an 'event'. Front rim and wheel are toast. I took it into the dealership and they called the...

I noticed on my fob that the panic button requires you to hold it down for a few seconds before the horn starts going. Which means that my 1.5 year old takes MUCH longer to get the neighbors mad when she finds the Mazda key than when she finds my F150 key - which starts blaring just as soon as...

Stellar Greensilver has not been discontinued. I'm driving an 07 Stellar Greensilver and I just checked the Mazdausa website which still shows it. There was some talk here of the name being changed but I don't see any evidence. Lazy Glen

Forgive them HotDog, they know not the power of the Tug Hill. I used to live in CNY and in college the XC ski team would drive up to the Tug Hill to hit the trails. The first time we went I think we were still running the trails instead of skiing. As the bus drove in I wondered at the 15 to 20...

I'll second this sentiment. When my parents taught me, after I got the basics down, I went out alone and practiced. We lived in a small college town, and it so happened that students were gone on break, so I went down on campus and drove around in parking lots and on the capus roads at night. By...

Not to steal the thread, but can the latch belt be purchased seperately? A friend whose child we drive around occasionally has a seat that has a strap with hooks on the end that attaches to the latch points. This seems a lot easier to get tight than threading the seatbelt and pulling and...

Thanks Scoot, I thought that they looked like a perfect place to hook bungee cords to. I'll have to look a little closer at the bin to see if I can rig something like that up for myself. Any idea if any of these accessories are going to come to the US market? Lazy Glen

The flip out bin under the passenger side 2nd row seat has what looks like hooks on all four corners. Is there a specific purpose for these or am I looking for a problem to go with a solution that does not exist? Lazy Glen

And there is NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER that whoever designed the track made it just twisty enough to keep the RX-8 from getting into the really fun part of the HP/Torque curve. Lazy Glen

Try calling around to some car rental companies and see if they have any MTX cars for rent - probably not, but would be worth a try. As light as the Mz5 is I think it should be farily easy to learn, but I know that you are just going to cringe every time you hear a grind or smell clutch. Alas...

When we had our first kid we agonized over where to put the seat based on convienince, safety and accesability. Then we realized that once we had a second child we would have to decide which kid we loved more and put them in the "BEST" seat. We quit trying to figure it out at that point. I...

On the 95 Protege that we traded in for the Mz5, I called the AC button the turbo boost button. If you wanted to add some power off the line, you just hit the Turbo Boost (turning off the AC) and got a perceptable increase in power. I haven't tried it in the Mz5, but I haven't needed extra...

Unless you are going to order exactly what you want, the 2007's are allready here. We got ours 2 or 3 weeks ago and got the car we would have ordered from dealer stock. We did have to call around to get the right dealer, one of the local dealers told us the 07's would not be available untill...

We moved to RTP NC from Central and Western NY, with plenty of snow driving experience. In one of the few snowstorms that we have had here, I left plenty of time to go to work, put my shovel in the 95 Protege (with standard all seasons on it), and left for work with double the transit time...

1. Which model / color / transmission / options / etc. did you get? Touring, Stellar greensilver, Manual, 6 disc changer 2. Whereabouts are you located? RTP NC 3. Is this your first Mazda? No, this replaced a 95 Protege 4. What other vehicles were you considering, and what would you have...