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    How-To: Clean the HVAC blower wheel (mouse cage)

    Anyone with insight on how to access the blower motor from the engine compartment, please advise. The local garage said, the blower in my Mazda5 requires replacing and around $500 for just the labor. The guy at the garage said, he has seen some weird and hard to get to place for the blower...
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    How-To: Clean the HVAC blower wheel (mouse cage)

    The wife's 2009 Mazda5 blower recently started making noticeable noise, more so on higher fan speeds. You can hear debris inside the blower after first turning it on. That noise dissipates, but then the sound pitch that the blower motor makes, while running, is lower than normal. (The...
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    2009 Mid-Year Change For Oil Filter

    I just recently had the dealer do the oil and filter change under the dealer's supplied 1-year maintenance plan on my 2009 Mazda5. I was surprised that the dealer used a spin-on oil filter during the first scheduled maintenance. The dealer's itemized invoice listed the following for this...
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