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Does anyone know when tire pressure sensors became standard? I purchased a used 2010 5 this spring. It had the green caps on the valve stems. I assumed it meant that they had sensors. I just put on my winter tires and rims that dont have sensors, fully expecting a light on the dash to come on...

Hello Everyone, I haven't posted here for a while. I've just been racking up km's on my '08 Mazda5. I'm now sitting at 476,000km. I know, that's an unbelievably high number, but it's true. It still runs strong. The engine still uses no oil and is as reliable as anything out there. The...

Hi everyone. I'm a current Mazda 5 owner and am hoping to upgrade to a SUV at some point in the future. I have been researching the pros and cons of direct injection (DI) system (the new SkyActive engines are all direct injection) and am discovering, to my horror, that in DI engines from...

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Hello everyone! I've been reading some of the posts on this forum to see how the CX-5 stacks up. I currently drive a 2008 Mazda5 GT 5-spd manual with 390,000km. I'm thinking that next summer I will trade it in for a CX-5, the Mazda unlimited km warranty will actually be in my favor due to the...

Oil change yesterday in the driveway ... finally. Felt good. Wash and vacuum today. Felt good. Still running fine. Just braggin'. :P

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Upon recently reading the owners manual for my '08 Mazda5, I found no reference as to how often I should change the manual transmission fluid. Don't laugh, but I now have 240,000km on it with the original oil in the tranny. It shifts fine with no weird sounds. I called the local Mazda dealer...

Yep, the new sound that I heard from the car as it was going down the road was the right front wheel bearing. My 5 has only 131,000km. Jeesh! The mechanic said that newer cars seem to be going through wheel bearings quicker than the older ones. I guess the auto manufacturers noticed that...

Last spring I purchased Toyo Extensa A/S (215/5-R17) for my Mazda 5. Near the end of fall I noticed a bit of vibration occuring, but had to change to my winter rim/tires becuase of, well, you know. I just put the Toyo's back on a week ago, rotating the rears to the front. So far they have...

I tried to use the search part of this website but all that happened was that I found stuff not related to the 5 and when I did search the 5 location it timmed out. Grrr. So here's my question, that's probably been answered before somewhere. What are the locations under the 5 to safely place...

I'm not sure where I should post this, but since the flashing warning light on the dash is electronic itself I figured this was the section to post this thread. Yeah, I started my '08 this morning and the red airbag light on the dash didn't go out. It is flashing. Two long flashes followed by...

Has anyone out there actually checked to see how accurate (or not) their speedometer & odometer are? I dont think Ive come across any threads dealing with this issue. Ive always known that my speedo reads faster than I'm actuall going (100km/h indicated is really 97km/h) but I didnt know how...

I just installed my winter tires on the 5 today. I took the easy way out and chose to get the steel rim and winter tire package from the local Mazda dealership. They sent me out four Bridgestone Blizzak WS60's in the 205/55-16 size already mounted on the rims (that's because I live out in the...

Hi, I havent posted in a while but its about time to snow and I would appreciate some input. I need to put winter tires on my Mazda 5. All I have are the orig. 205/50-17 Toyo tires and I know that they wont work for the winter. Im thinking of getting separate steel rims with winter tires...

Hello everyone. I've made a few replies and spent a lot of time reading the threads. There is a lot of good information on the Mazda5 in this site. I own a '08 Mazda5 GT 5-spd (Purchased in March) that now has 10,000km on it. I have changed the engine oil and filter two times now (at 5000km...