interesting core teardown: 04 AT 34k original miles
12-07-2012, 12:37 AM
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I actually theorize that the mileage on the car may not be accurate although this guy swears the mazda dealer told him they had "all the records" and that the mileage was correct. Maybe the cluster has been swapped or maybe it is just a low mile car that was treated like ****. It has all the rattles, vibrations, and driveability of a 100k mile car...and obviously the engine had 100k worth of wear on it. My old 04 AT-->MT swap car had 127k when I sold it and it drove like a brand new car compared to this one. The steering wheel airbag rattles as you drive, if you put your finger on it the rattle stops. There is a broken swaybar link on the front end. All the alignment cams on the LCA's are rusted solid. There is some suspension rattle in the rear end as you drive on rough roads, etc. etc.
12-07-2012, 11:36 AM
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He's not the original owner so we don't really know. I guess they just bought the car as-is recently. I gather that it might have sat for a while getting repaired...it's obviously been entirely repainted, and I theorize that it might have been hail damaged or otherwise lightly wrecked.
I actually theorize that the mileage on the car may not be accurate although this guy swears the mazda dealer told him they had "all the records" and that the mileage was correct. Maybe the cluster has been swapped or maybe it is just a low mile car that was treated like ****. It has all the rattles, vibrations, and driveability of a 100k mile car...and obviously the engine had 100k worth of wear on it. My old 04 AT-->MT swap car had 127k when I sold it and it drove like a brand new car compared to this one. The steering wheel airbag rattles as you drive, if you put your finger on it the rattle stops. There is a broken swaybar link on the front end. All the alignment cams on the LCA's are rusted solid. There is some suspension rattle in the rear end as you drive on rough roads, etc. etc.
I actually theorize that the mileage on the car may not be accurate although this guy swears the mazda dealer told him they had "all the records" and that the mileage was correct. Maybe the cluster has been swapped or maybe it is just a low mile car that was treated like ****. It has all the rattles, vibrations, and driveability of a 100k mile car...and obviously the engine had 100k worth of wear on it. My old 04 AT-->MT swap car had 127k when I sold it and it drove like a brand new car compared to this one. The steering wheel airbag rattles as you drive, if you put your finger on it the rattle stops. There is a broken swaybar link on the front end. All the alignment cams on the LCA's are rusted solid. There is some suspension rattle in the rear end as you drive on rough roads, etc. etc.
the first one he hooked up the scanner to check a code and the vin in the scanner was different than the car!
the second he had me run the warranty history, and Mazda said the car was a silver automatic, but the actual car was like a blue manual...
PM me the vin, see if it matches.
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