Body dented by itself - Skyactive = Flimsy?

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Yes, yes...

hear me out.

Washed my car by hand yesterday and left the trunk hatch open for one hour afterwards. It was about 95F so I wiped the car and cleaned up the rims. It took about 1 hour total.
Once I was done, I parked the car in the garage.

When I drove the car in the evening, I noticed a dent in the body right where the panel/beam of body which the hatch is attached to (rear-top left side, and it was the sunny side). Looks like the metal construction is so flimsy that it could not handle the hatch open for one hour.

I know they meant to reduce the weight of the vehicle but 1 year old car is crumbling under its own weight. How is it going to take 10 years worth of driving???

I've had a few hiccups with this car, but this demonstration of flimsiness worries me.

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Left side picture:

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right side is about 1/3 of this.
 
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The body is flexible, just lean on the bonnet, or lean back against the door, the panels flex a LOT more than any other car I know of. It might not be a bad thing as long they are strong enough. That said, I have a small garden trolley hanging on the wall of the garage, it has plastic wheels. I rubbed against it when reversing into the garage and the plastic wheel made a nice dent in the body work, it's small but I can notice it now. The plastic wheel was fine! yes, flexible and strong enough for a crash, it could be fairly fragile though but crumble under its own weight....don't think so!
 
Nodnerb said:
Dude, really? Lol
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Thank you for starting my Friday out with a laugh.

And at the risk of jumping into the middle of this, what happened to actually discussing things on forums? Asking questions about the damage, getting pictures, etc...
I know there are plenty of people out there that enjoy nothing better than trying to stir things up and often don't even own the cars they are posting about but when it isn't the persons first post and they've been around for a year?

Okay, now all together "Kum bay ya......
 
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gova said:
Yes, yes...

hear me out.

Washed my car by hand yesterday and left the trunk hatch open for one hour afterwards. It was about 95F so I wiped the car and cleaned up the rims. It took about 1 hour total.
Once I was done, I parked the car in the garage.

When I drove the car in the evening, I noticed a dent in the body right where the panel/beam of body which the hatch is attached to (rear-top left side, and it was the sunny side). Looks like the metal construction is so flimsy that it could not handle the hatch open for one hour.

I know they meant to reduce the weight of the vehicle but 1 year old car is crumbling under its own weight. How is it going to take 10 years worth of driving???

I've had a few hiccups with this car, but this demonstration of flimsiness worries me.
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Might be time for you to trade it for something more sturdy!

I'm picking up my second CX-5 this week....If I ever felt that it was as flimsy as you described, it would be gone. Because we drive our cars everyday, why live with the added stress. The re-sale value is still pretty high, get rid of it.

EDIT: I wonder how many people will "test" this....When I pick up the new one Saturday, I'm going to leave the hatch open on the trade in, and check it before I leave.

Want to know how strong the hatch is? My wife took a 15-20MPH hit, while stopped, with this one.

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This is pretty hilarious.

I'm pretty sure the OP left his Mazda in the sun and came back to this though.
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I don't know if the damage is worse, or the fact that it became a Honda.
 
All,

This is very serious actually and I am really sorry that it has so much negative feedback, emotions and name calling.

I went to the dealer today and they did acknowledge that this happened w/out external forces. The smaller dent is forming on the exact opposite side as well and the dealer confirmed this.

They did take pictures of both sides and will talk to Mazda about it.

It was hard to show the extent of dents but once it reflected something it was clearly visible.

Again, it has happened on both sides now and it is symmetric - left and right dents occur in exactly the same spot on opposite sides.

I'll post an update once I hear from them next week.
 
Ok, back to the original topic, some good observations about 2 dents, (without a guess as to what caused them followed by name calling and requests for unrelated porn pictures).

Let's see what some of the better Mazda gurus find out. Gova-Thanks for keeping us updated.
 
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I kind of figured the post was legit. If ya'll are like me, you know every inch of your vehicle and most of us are smart enough to recognize this kind of buckle. I'd imagine it isnt your standard dimpled dent and if its right where the hinges are id suspect the same thing.
But i couldnt pass up the dig at erhayes. ;)
 
TreyP said:
I would try taking it out on the highway at around 120 mph to see if the wind currents will cause it to smooth the dents back out.
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Ha ha ha, thanks for the good laugh.

If it falls apart under its own weight than doing 120 mph will cause it to blow apart.
 
Ok, if there are dents in the exact spot that the hatch hinges meet the car I would honestly guess that the more likely cause would be that someone, at some time, somehow attempted to extend the hinges beyond their normal range of operation which would have to have been done with the hatch shocks disconnected. Maybe it was at the dealership before the car was purchased and the sun happened to hit it just right the other day so that the OP noticed it for the first time. Maybe the hatch was open and someone backed into a garage and caught it a little too late.

There could be numerous legit explanations, but unless some proof can be given to the contrary, I really don't think that leaving the hatch open for an hour is one of them, especially given that the hatch shocks hold a good deal of the weight when the hatch is open.
 
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Treys, that makes a whole lot of sense. I was too harsh on my initial response, my inhibitions were unrestrained at that moment so for that I apologize. Still, stating that the metal frame of the car dented itself under its own weight, come on!
 
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