Mine are H btw.
I'm going to file a complaint with the NTSB. There really should be a recall! Thanks again to everyone for taking the time to share all the great info.
Yep, every LED DRL on 2016 CX-5 with Tech Package would fail. We can only hope Mazda and Stanley have resolved the issue with the new "J" version. And yes I doubt NHTSA would do anything on the wide-spread LED DRL failures as DRLs are not a mandatory safety device in the US. But I still filed a complaint on mine anyway.Another 2016 LED DRL failure to report. Passenger side only. Given that US regulations do not require DRL's, I doubt we are going to get any help from the government. By the way it is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that would have jurisdiction, not the NTSB. This is especially so if Trump has put one of his stooges in charge of the agency.
The procedure of disabling DRL function is the same between gen-2 and gen-1 CX-5. But for gen-1 2016 CX-5, we could also leave the LED DRLs on until they die. Nothing else would get affected.Since I am well out of warranty, the best I am hoping for is the dealer will be willing to disable the DRL's for free, though if anyone has instructions for how to do that on a 2016, please post them (only 2017+ instructions posted so far in this thread). I am certainly not going to throw $1500 at this problem.
Geez, I missed this entire thread. 2016 GT w/Tech checking in with 10/15 build date No DRL failures. No hazing. Only thing I did from the get go was turn off the automatic headlight feature probably within the first week of ownership. Did all you who had failures have that turned on?
My 2016 gt tech headlights hazed within a few months of ownership. So I never experienced a DRL failure. But that certainly didn*t help build confidence.
Just do what I did....trade it in. When it was inspected they didn't even notice it.
And you're a lucky one ⋯well mine driver's side started flickering at around 55k miles, I took in it and the dealership contacted Mazda and they are going to cover 100% of the costs.
Mazda knows they screwed up on their LED DRLs. For such expensive components what the public image would become if they don't compensate the replacement cost? But I do feel MNAO shouldn't have differential treatment to its customers. Be consistent on compensation, not like one for $300 from owner's cost but the other for free!Gotta give Mazda SOME credit. No one has been forced to pay the full cost that I remember. I could be wrong so don't jump all over me again Yrwie for not rereading this entire thread. But Mazda seems to have stepped in a huge majority of cases to help people out of warranty offset the costs. HUGE majority.