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.

  • LibertarianP@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    They replaced Theta II engines with 150k+ plus miles on them for free. I’ve heard good and bad things about Hyundai, but they tried to make up for that mistake.

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      10 months ago

      There’s 2.4 and 2.0 theta engines. They fucked everyone with the 2.0 L engine that sold more units which is not included in any recalls

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        10 months ago

        I didn’t know about the Theta I. I assume it was a shitty engine, not a flawed one with metal shavings like Theta II.