I wrote on another thread that my car wouldnt start last week. Flatbedded it into the dealer, who called Mazda.

Mazda sent a couple of engineers from corporate to take a look.

They found the front rotor was not generating enough compression and want to take my engine back to California for analysis.

Dealer said he'd know on Monday what they are going to do with me in the mean time. Hmmmmm.......

 

looks to me like you will be getting a whole new car as they simply don't have enough engines built to just bolt a new one in. unless they airlift one from the factory?!

 

wow. sorry to hear about tha. i think they owe you another 8.

 

dealer does have a nice looking titanium with appearance package....

 

so what are you waiting for?

 

Makes me want to go do a compression test on mine.... just in case!

 

Sorry, you're not getting a new car. Several people have blown their engines through one means or another; even after battle with MNAO they get a factory-new engine in their old car. Maybe you can finagle extended warranty or something for the inconvenience.

 

But, if they do not have a engine avaliable, what will they do? They already did the buyback, whats one more car to them?

Maybe you get a new one, my question, would you still get the free maintance?

hmmmmmmmmm...........

While your at it, insist on a facter installed hook for your suits!!!!!!

 

I hope this doesn't mean something like last gen. rx7. I mean I know engines arent blowing, but still, no engine problems at low milage is best.

 

for those that did have an engine replacement, I wonder how long it would be? Very very inconvenient to be without my car for a long period of time- its been two weeks so far. I do have a loaner car (Grand Am!)

 

For me, 168 miles into ownership, new engine. Came from the assmbly line what what I was told. Took 3 weeks from the time I took it in to receipt.

I bought it after the buy back so I did not get the free maint. I did get a free full factory warr., 2 mos payments and a few options that I wanted (car cover, spoiler, CD changer, rotary accents and some other stuff).

If I knew this was a bigger problem, maybe I would have asked for more.

--Brad

 

Document everything and start looking into the lemon laws for your particular part of the country. If Mazda takes an unreasonable amount of time to fix the car, they've got to give you your money back or a new car. This varies from state to state, as does the period of time before that particular clause kicks in.

 

in Tn, 4 attempts or 30 days for the first year.

 

Though ours has only 400mi so far no problems to report. I'm hoping that I got a good one. I'm guessing that the problems were on the first batch released and hopefully now the big bugs are worked out.

 

My VIN ends in 00502. Just passed 4,000 miles and have had no performance problems.