I was driving to work the other day, engine started smoking up bad, had to get the car towed.
Turns out the I cracked cylinder head on my cx5, and even better it’s a known issue, a design flaw and one they have corrected. Yet the people with this problem are left to fit the bill. I have it sitting in the shop with a quote of almost 7 grand to fix.
I can’t afford this fix and I don’t know what to do, I wish I could just total the car at this point.
I love my car, she has been a great car and I have kept up on the services and everything, but now I’m left to deal with their flaw.
I’m out of warranty of course and I’m going to argue with the dealership and Mazda because this is utterly unacceptable and should have been a recall!
And plenty of other people had to deal with it too, thankfully nobody has been left stranded somewhere because of it.
I dont think there’s cylinder deactivation on these.
I think all the NA 2.5’s sold in the US had cylinder deactivation in 2021 as well. Believe it or not, this is one of the reasons I also wanted the Turbo so bad. Start stop is as awful of a trend as painting cars burnt orange /copper was in the late 2000’s. (Except paint only damages aesthetics and start stop can damage… well… a lot of things)
Had it on my 2019. Less than a year later I got a notice to bring my car in to disable deactivation thing