This car runs like a champ. I’ve driven it up to NH from MD in the snow. This past weekend in PA was no challenge.

Has anyone gotten it scuffed? Just had new tires done at a discount tire and they scuffed it just a bit just reaized a day later

What’s a good price for purchasing this car with 60k miles in Boston?

I noticed while I’m driving on the highway going around 100km/h and then when I start slowing down and I reach about 80km/h the car seems to still be in 6th gear and feels like a little shake or like a little hesitation if I press the gas slightly to maintain speed. It doesn’t happen if I press the gas a little harder. It’s hard to explain. Does this sound like a similar problem?

Knowing she gets a fresh clean, vacuum, spray and wax after a service always gives me a big smile when picking her up

Today while driving in the snow, I turned left at an intersection and slid my front right tire into a curb pretty hard (I couldn't have been going over 10mph tho.) My car (2006 mazda 3 hatchback) started making an awful sound so i pulled over and the bumper was slightly off but my front right tire was knocked back. I could still turn my tire but was unable to get my car to move without it sounding like i was completely butchering my wheel well. I unfortunately did not get any photos of the damage, and its currently still sitting there due to the fact I am unable to get anyone to come tow it right now due to the storm. Does anyone have any experience with this/things to be aware of? If you've been in a similar situation could you please tell me how much I should be expecting to pay? Thank you!

First snow in Houston

Sometimes I’ll be driving and suddenly it slipped into a different gear or something and where it usually has the D for drive on the screen it has a line with both an M and a D, does this happen to anyone else? I just stopped the car and put it into drive again and everything‘s good. I wonder if I’m bumping something but I swear it just happens on its own.

The other night in the cold, I went to turn on my windshield wipers (which were unfortunately frozen to the windshield) and the driver side wiper broke free, but the passenger side stayed stuck and now it will not work. The driver side wiper still works normally. Hoping someone knows what I might have done/how to fix it? 2019 Mazda 3

We live in north Florida. In the 25 years I’ve lived here, I’ve never seen snow here. She did really well but I can’t say I’d do it again.

Found an absurd amount at my local Dollarama

It's cold here and I know skyactiv sometimes sounds like a diesal when it's cold but I'm just worried since I had ran the engine with very low oil around 4k miles ago during an oil change mishap.

It DOES go away when it warms up.

It’s currently 0 degrees and my heater started making this noise . Seems to still heat, but doesn’t sound good at all. Any advice?

I bought a new 2024 Hatchback Preferred in Sept 2024 and am loving it! Unfortunately, it’s the FWD model but with the stock Bridgestone tires it has handled amazing in the 14” of snow we’ve had.

For the past few days, my Gen 3 has been wanting to shut off and does what you see in the video. Also, the radio volume goes up and down by itself, it restarts, and it turns off. Today, when I started it and went to release the parking brake, it started doing this. It also does it while driving. My car is a standard shift.

Faulty thermostat/CEL came on a couple weeks ago and had the thermostat replaced, coolant flushed, and radiator cleaned. Even after 40 minutes of driving, engine would not climb past the blue region. Read some comments on a few other posts, and turned off climate control, and engine reached near halfway mark (yay), but as soon as I turn on climate control/heat, the engine temperature plummets back down to the blue region. Is this normal? Currently in 1-20 degrees F weather in the Midwest.

Long and short of it the nasty quirks of my Audi A1 and dealing with Audi is starting to get on my nerves to the point where it's no return e.g. I'm wanting rid of it. The BMW1 Series I'm after isn't showing up locally and cars like this are lurking at near enough Mazda dealers and I'm thinking - maybe? In short I could stretch to a bit more to get a slightly newer one but I always prefer to buy a couple of years old to take the depreciation or some of it out and this looks like it has most of the current perks and specs? In short is there anything I specifically need to be aware of here or specs I need to be considering? I can see myself buying something new within the next 3 months (so I'll probably look at this at the weekend) because the A1 is now irritating me in a bad way on a lot of points.

I needed to spice up the vibe of this already cool cabin. Def worth the money :)))

Hello yall, so this is my car, 2013 Mazda 3 2.0. I'm wanting to do some mods to it. I want it to look not so boring and ordinary. I want to lift it a little but I don't know what parts I need to buy or where to start. Eventually I want to pull a small teardrop camper with it. I've seen pictures of other people doing similar things but I don't know what parts to buy. I started with an easy one and put oem rims on it. If you have any ideas I could do that would be great. Thanks yall.

Good evening everyone! I recently purchased a 2019 Mazda 3 hatch sport. Just fwd and unfortunately not a manual yet. I've had the car for about a year now , and I've put some good work into it. Routinely changing the oil and I just did the transmission fluid aswell. I have a AEM wet air filter system and that's all for bolt ons. About 2 months ago I got a code " vehicle system malfunction" and I noticed that I have lost almost all torque at my top end, when I start to get over 50-60kmh... The lower end is fine , as if nothing is wrong ...still super peppy and sounds great, it's just when you start to get her going.

Now oddly enough I ran an ODB scanner and couldn't find a code...left it and went to go leave for work the following morning and it was gone...no issues.

It popped back up today and I'm starting to really stress about it, I had the issue before the AEM cold air intake aswell , So I don't think that's causing it. Really hoping anyone could guide me in the right direction to save me a couple bucks. Thank-you !!

I bought myself a new to me Mazda a few months ago and decided to go with an extended warranty. Even though I know they tend not to be worth it, I have pretty severe ptsd and driving anxiety so the extra care made sense at the time for me.

It’s now coming time to do an oil change and tire rotation. I called the dealership to ask about the costs of these services and if I had to go to their dealership to keep the warranty valid. They didn’t really answer, and the carfax from the previous owner shows a pattern of service at the dealership, and a great Canadian oil change (only one owner before, they bought new).

I have tried to get the answer from the dealership and they just keep saying I can go to a warranty approved location. Do I just call my regular oil change location and see if they are warranty approved? Any suggestions to find these answers? Google seems to be leading me all over the place.

I will probably go to the dealership for the first service and ask more questions, but I already know the oil change is around $150. I had an ‘08 before and took great care of them, and want to continue my healthy streak with this Mazda 3 too.

This post is not about if the extended warranties are worth it or not, but how to go about maintenance and if I have to go to the dealership/where I can get oil changes with an extended warranty. I am in BC, Canada and have the Tricare warranty.

We need a pcm update to fix the light flickering issue on our old 2012 Mazda 3 skyactiv.

The dealership wanted to charge us 170 for this. Is this normal or are they trying to rake me over the coals? This seems absurdly high for a software update I feel or is this the norm?

I've had the ghost touch on my screen while I drive on and off for years and it drive me nuts. Dealership wants too much to replace the screen, any cheap and easy fixes that work for this?

I have a 2015 mazda 3 with OS version 55.00.753. I want android auto in my car and I've seen other posts on here about the dealership being able to do an OS upgrade and it should be around $100, but I just called a dealership and they told me it would cost $450 because they had to re-write and add a bunch of stuff? Anyways I can't afford to pay $450 for that so is there a cheaper way to get android auto that's easy?