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 called last week asking for the price of a new engine for a 2017 cx-9 and was told it was 5k with the parts needed to install it. Then you have to factor in labor and taxes. Replacing mine came to about 10k. My regular mechanic could only find one used cx-9 engine at 4k with 140k km and he was quoting me over 20 hours of labour.
Holy cow I’m being down voted for repeating the info I got last week? This is in Canadian dollars, don’t know if you guys are in the States.
Gotta specify when you’re using Canadian dollhairs rather than a legitimate currency lmao
Ya idk that sounds weird. 2.0s are selling for 600. And you shouldn’t need many other parts. I imagine most cx-9s have the 2.5 but can’t imagine those being that much more expensive