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Mazda No. 1 In Reliability


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grand cherokee's had 1 major issue in the 99-01 years which is the so called "blend doors" the fix is a new 20 dollar mini motor and oiling some bearings...but its costs about 1100-1300 to fix since you have to take apart the entire dash, and by entire dash I mean everything in the interior to the raw firewall.

 

owners going to jiffy lube is another huge problem, fuckers have no clue what there doing, and have heard many a horror stories on jf and ju about people bitching because they had to replace there transfer case or axles, first off, you don't use regular tranny fluid in the 247 TC, and you should always REFILL the damn axles, god damn jiffy lube

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Owners go to jiffy lube no matter what vehicle they drive, so don't put the blame on jiffy lube. Use some common sense. It's not like people that buy jeeps are statistically more inclined to get their oil's changed there. Face fact, they're a piece of shit.

 

Too bad none of mazda's current vehicles use a s/c. If they're that reliable, then maybe their s/c's would be too.

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wrong, jeeps and trucks in general.

 

and camel, no, it is not stamped or written anywhere on the TC or diff what fluid to use, its in the owners manual, however ALL shops with any common sense should know that differential fluid goes in diffs, and that depending on the car you almost always use a special fluid in the TC.

 

the jeeps for example require a special TC fluid you can only get at the dealers, now all jeep and crysler TC take it so alot of shops will stock it, except jiffylube.

 

and I don't want to hear any of ren's bitching that its just to make more money, its not expensive fluid and everyone that has had something eles put in there TC either from a shop or there own fault winds up having to rebuild the whole thing

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Chrysler is notorious for using it's own blend when it comes to tranny's, no arguements there. But, I highly doubt that every problem that occured on the list was due to improper lubrication. To be more specific, it would surprise me if any of the problems had anything to do with lubrication as these are problems with new cars, not old/used ones.

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ren, it is a huge problems in jeeps more then other cars.

 

On the diff fluid you can go with pretty much any 75w-90 or 75w-140 if you tow, I myself use mobile 1, however, if you have locking or LSD you MUST use the special chryler FM (Friction modifier) it hasn't been proving that it does excessive damage without, BUT you get a horrible noise.

 

The TC however is extremely sensative for some reason, if the level even drops by 15% you lose the ability to engage the front drivesfart, and any other fluid has repeatly shown to burn up a TC within a few thousand miles.

 

Now I myself do not have any idea what is so special about the fluid, but I'm sure they design there products to only work with it.

 

The only exception to this is the 242 transfer case used in many older jeeps, and known as select trac, in those like on my old 98 you could use regular old atf +3, BUT it was only good for about 30k at the most, and with that TC your in 2wd 95% of the time anyway, when wheeling and using the front drive shaft you have to change it every 10k

 

The 99+ of course select track use a different fluid

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Xedos, what's so bad about them? Styling aside since that's personal preference, what are the main problem area's? My friend had one and it seemed fine. I upgraded the turbo and suspension on his (so I don't know how long stock would last) but everything else was fine. The only problem he had with his was that his didn't use screws to hold the coilpacks in place, and they would slip and ground, causing all sorts of weird electrical occurances (nothing major though). Once new coils were installed (which were less than half the cost of Mazda coils) everything was fine.

 

BHR, good to know about the Jeep transfer cases (oil) since my friends piece of shit TJ (wrangler) won't go into 4x4 anymore. Maybe he just needs his filled up.

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Xedos, what's so bad about them?

 

You mean, part from the maybe crude but objective fact they are crappy shit quality cars? Dig into the link and see for yourself.

 

I will not make a long list of usual faults, just mention front suspension on A4, A6 and VW Passat, if they cope with 30 k miles you're lucky, fragile diesel engines, various tranny trouble, driveaxle boots lasting less than 40 k miles, wheelbearings 30 k miles tops, various electronic and electrical faults, you just about name it. What's left is a shiny appearance and gorgeous interior. Doesn't impress me much.

 

Then you have the not too objective reasons for me not liking them.

 

1. The configuration with longitudinal engine more or less in front of the headlights makes them boring and heavyfooted to drive, and the overall weight compared to size is not hightech at all. Part from the A8 that is.

 

2. They like to make an impression of being a top status premium brand, and also is for many. Of course, for the first 2 years of ownership they might be running fine too, if you're lucky. I am no fan of relying to luck. I am however a fan of non-mainstream cars. The Xedos might not be the best car in the world, but for me it is.

 

3. Here many of the owners are people I would certainly not wish to be compared with or taken as. Many of the morons in traffic ( mainly my age males) showing no mercy and behaving like shit drive Audis. Now I might bend a rule or two in my Xedos too, but never act like a moron towards others. But of course, If I get the opportunity to beat the shit out of a Audi :shifty:

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Their petrol sixes in 2,4, 2,7 twinturbo and 2,8 versions are known here for their hideous oil leaks and huge oil consumption. The V filled with oil is not uncommon, under that piece of shit plastic cover. And oil consumption upwards or beyond 2 litres in 1000 km, mind you expensive synthetic is not uncommon. Audi has not had recalls on this issue, which is amazing. They say it is within spec. The reason is probably they have huge tolerances in their engine production. You know, piston versus cylinder diametre, bearing tolerances and such. I other words crappy engines. Being 90 degrees sixes they're wrong configured too.

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If I was ever gonna go Audi which I couldn't see mysef doing by the way, it would have to be the A8.

 

I had a Mercedes ML270 and the electrics must have been put together by a moron cause things kept going, then you'd have to sell your child to repair a switch...ridiculous.

 

But remember, according to the advert...in developing the A6, Audi filed more patents than NASA did for one of it's space rocket thingy.

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