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 only avoided this same exact problem last week because my mechanic noticed my prestone was leaking during an oil change. I just paid 1200 to get my car taken apart looking for the leak only to realize it’s coming from the head gasket. If you catch it early , it’s a 5k fix, otherwise you need a new engine which comes at about 10k with parts and labor.
For now we put a product in the prestone to patch the leak but I’m gonna have to cough up the money to fix this soon. I was panicked looking at the price of used cars!
I hope you didn’t pour head gasket sealer in the coolant. More often than not that thing ends up clogging coolant galleries all over the engine.