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I'm not sure why everyone gets in a big toot to organize a class action suit anyway. The settlement awards to individuals are always much less than what a consumer could generally get by fighting on their own, and they can take years to resolve. This is fantastic, as long as you are willing to wait 3 years to be awarded 2 free oil changes. :confuse:
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They changed the oil and they saw that the oil was mixed up with the petrol. The problems according to them was one of the fuel injectors, which was coused by the dirt in the petrol.
Its a funny thing to hear since there is a filter who is supposed to do this job, and a petrol leak in the oil is unaceptable.
They simple cleaned the injector, filled up the engine with new oil and told me to keep an eye on the oil level. So i checked it out after 3 days and i've noticed that it raised again which means that there is still a leak. I've also noticed then when i put the engine in neutral and drive in downhill, the mazda spends up to 9 l, even that the GASS pedal is not pressed at all.
I left it in the service center, and im waiting for a fix. I'm not planing to pay anything, and if the problems appear again im planing to sue mazda.
I live in Macedonia, and if you know any good lawyer that can help me, please inform me,
I loved my Mazda 6 very much but not any more.
That's where you should report vehicle issues. If enough people report the same issue, they'll do an investigation.
You are, of course, welcome to start your own website, but you wouldn't be permitted to promote that site here.
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I don't know if you guys heard about this but spiders are pulling an all-out assault on our car engines. After analyzing discussions that I have had with others, we can only conclude that Honda has bio-engineered a new sub-species of spider with the capability to not only locate, but to also destroy the engine by laying their acid-laden webs in the evaportative canister line. Now is the time to act.
One testable theory to explore how we can potentially extricate these spiders was posited by "William" (name omitted for confidentiality purposes). He believes that a simple fix to the problem at hand would be to release birds into the engines to decimate the spider population. The next obvious question then is what are the exact dimensions of the engine so that we can gather a sizeable population of birds who can maneuver through the twisted metal labyrinth of the engine. The problem with this, however, is once thespiders are gone, then the engines will be infested with birds. Not a problem. Next we will release snakes into the engines to devour the remaining birds. After the snakes are done, we will need the assistance of many mongoose to get the snakes. I am not sure what feeds on the mongoose in the wild, so I will assume any large apex predator would work (i.e. polar bears) so we will use polar bears to finally remove the mongoose infestation.
This is obviously the best strategy to combat those bastards at Honda. Now, it's up to Nissan to front the money and manpower to issue each owner of a recalled car a population of size-specific birds, a population of bird-eating snakes, one or two mongoose, and a polar bear. I think it is the least they can do. Please fix my engine.
P.S. Is acquirement a real word? I would personally use acquisition but there has been much debate. Thank you, lords of industry.
Thanks in advance.
A few days later I go to tow the 04 off their lot and guess what...it starts right up! WTF? I take it to a back-yard mechanic I know & tell him to find out what's going on. He is in the process of tearing it down, but he has told me I don't need a new engine! He thinks it may be a bad rod bearing.
My question: Do they have really bad mechanics or is this a new way to sell cars?
Now, if it was spiders in the engine I would dump the car like, snap, right now. Can NOT deal with spiders AT ALL! I'd have nightmares driving it! Arachnaphobia!!
Possibilities of oil comsumption are leak, valve wear, piston ring wear, PVC problem, valve cover leak, head gasket failure and probaly several other possibilities I haven't listed.
Bottom line is let your shop diagnose the problem. On line posters cannot diagnose your problem only list possibilities which may or may not have happened to them and which may or may not be your problem.
As for the "lean" condition and the smell, I'd first double-check to be sure the first set of catalytic converters (attached to the headers) are not clogged. If they are, it's covered by a federal-mandated 8year/80K mile warranty on all emissions-related parts. There could also be an air leak, as you mentioned, but I'd have it looked at before driving it anywhere, just to be sure you don't cause anymore problems.
My husband's 2004 Mazda 6 died last August of 2010- just 1 week before our wedding! One mechanic quoted us a price of $5400! We weren't going for that, so then we went to another mechanic who specializes in engines....the guy there said he wouldn't even touch it because Mazda 6 engines don't last long and he thinks we should look into another vehicle altogether. The dealership quoted us a price of $5900 for a rebuilt motor! I really think Mazda should own up and pay for at least rebuilding these crap engines!
Does anyone know how we should pursue a possible class action suit?
btw-the engine mileage is 93k - but we took it for regular maintenance, oil changes, etc.
I had the same problem. Could you please tell me which dealer you've got your new car?
Tara
Which engine, 4 or 6....turbo or regular engine?
Automatic or manual transmission?
What symptoms or other problems did you have before failure?
What was mechanic's diagnosis?
Sure, it stinks when the odds come up short on you, but statisically a few engines out of the thousands built will fail. People are okay with this concept when it comes to winning the lottery, not so much when its your blown engine.
Please let us know if you really want to get a law suit going.
I have a 2007 4 cyl, 5 Spd Mazda 6. The engine blew at 11,000 miles. and again at 23,000 miles.
I'm a Engineer and a mechanic. I specialize in FMEA (Failure Mode & Effect Annalysis) Which means I know no Mazda Service Manager can blame me for my engine failure without a tear down for Root Cause Analysis. Period. And Mazda blamed me. They said "your engine compartment is too clean, you must be hiding something"
I did one more oil/filter change than required.
Check back on my postings and read the one from the FORMER Mazda service manager on here.
Edmunds pull my request for all your information to start action against Mazda saying this was not the purpose of Edmunds to begin legal actions.
What this service manager supposedly said would never, ever stand up in any legal venue. Although Mazda does not have the best customer service, this claim and reason just makes no sense and is laughable.
The fact that you have had no resolution to date from something that happened years ago makes absolutely no sence. You know the old saying "there are two sides to every story..."
- namecalling: please don't. It's like a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser for forums posts.
- organizing legal action: if a lawyer needs to document similar cases, refer him/her to these posts. If a particular member wants contact in any way, they'll have their email address posted publicly in their profile. If not, you're out of luck.
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I am not haveing any of these issues on my Mazda6 2006 V6 Sport 5 speed. 72400 miles and still running great. It has been a very long time since you started this thread. Seems there would be a resolution by now.
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Your problem is with the dealer, and not Mazda, since timing chains aren't supposed to be replaced in ANY maintenance schedule that I've seen. Timing belts get swapped out, chains (in most cases) are for the life of the engine. I'd bypass the incompetent dealer and deal with Mazda directly.