Agree, the CX5 brakes are excellent in feel and performance for what I use my CX5 for. I will say though that Mazdas sliding calipers seem prone to seizing up. Before this could happen I went through the brakes on both my CX5 and Mazda 5 at about 30,000 miles and the sliders were starting to bind up on both cars. There was also a lot of rust developing on my CX5 rotors and wheel bearing surfaces, which is attributable to all the salt the municipalities use around here in winter. The fix was as simple as taking them apart, cleaning them, applying caliper grease in the appropriate areas, and putting it all back together. The pads were in very good condition.
These problems are actually not unique to Mazda, but happen on a lot of other makes and models. When you think about what brakes are called upon to do, and the fact that they work in the harshest of environments, it's amazing they last as long as they do without failure.
These problems are actually not unique to Mazda, but happen on a lot of other makes and models. When you think about what brakes are called upon to do, and the fact that they work in the harshest of environments, it's amazing they last as long as they do without failure.
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