I got the 2020 CX-5 Sport last October, want to talk about the durability of these. I went from driving pothole-ridden Midwestern roads to last month moving to Bay Area. For lack of holes and indents here, it makes up for it with the opposite: bumps everywhere. Every manhole cover lies on raised mound of road like a little mountain, so many raised boards of sheet metal everywhere, and other random bumps and folds over the highway. Not to mention every parking garage has speed bumps so steep they automatically turn your steering wheel as you go over them. It's quite jarring - worse yet the bumps are usually on the side of the lane...
So yesterday I went over a "manhole cover mountain" at around 40-45mph on my right side tires, it felt like my car wouldnt stop bouncing up and down for a while after the impact. I've read threads in here that say they drove over entire curbs many times in their CX-5 with no damage, but are the suspension parts any better than your typical sedan? How have your CX-5's fared on crap roads at 35-50mph speeds? Should I take to mechanic?
Edit: I also just got an alignment done like 2 weeks ago too, mechanic said it was surprisingly misaligned. I scraped curbside on only two occasions, once on a super narrow lane, and another while doing a U-turn. He said those probably caused it. If those caused misalignment how do people take this thing off-roading or "drive over curbs regularly" as I've read online???
So yesterday I went over a "manhole cover mountain" at around 40-45mph on my right side tires, it felt like my car wouldnt stop bouncing up and down for a while after the impact. I've read threads in here that say they drove over entire curbs many times in their CX-5 with no damage, but are the suspension parts any better than your typical sedan? How have your CX-5's fared on crap roads at 35-50mph speeds? Should I take to mechanic?
Edit: I also just got an alignment done like 2 weeks ago too, mechanic said it was surprisingly misaligned. I scraped curbside on only two occasions, once on a super narrow lane, and another while doing a U-turn. He said those probably caused it. If those caused misalignment how do people take this thing off-roading or "drive over curbs regularly" as I've read online???
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