Mazda 3 MPS Gen I problems you have had, warranty fixes

[Nexus]

Gotta march down to Mazda tomorrow! 3500kms and...

I have this GOD AWFUL knocking noise in the rear when driving over bumpy roads, it is so God damned annoying! They either fix it, or they can have the f*cker back! It's annoying to the point I could take to the car with a baseball bat!

Settle, petal.
Probably the rear sway needs torqueing properly.

[Nexus]

I am having issues with the following:
* Cannot seem to get the front wheel alignment right - continually pulls to the right
* Squeaky seat belt mounts
* Clunk in the R/H Rear
* Power window padding all sticking out
* L/H Front speaker can rattle with some music - Bose my ass!
* Speedo is out by over 8% - which is apparently the allowable minimum by both Mazda and ADR!!!
EVILMPS

(a) wheel alignment - take it to a third party alignment specialist. They'll tell you if there's some reason it won't align properly.
(b) seat belt squeak will go away after awhile - if not a touch of WD40...prob best to get dealer to do that - wouldn't want the seatbelt mount becoming loose. I had it when brand new, it's gone now and hasn't come back. Didn't have to do anything.
(c) clunk at rear usually swaybar needing torqueing - will do it once and once only and after that's sorted it won't repeat.
(d) padding sticking out - bitch and moan to dealer :-)
(e) speaker rattle - bitch and moan again.
(f) speedo - live with it. If it's under 10% they don't have to do anything; it meets RTA and ADR guidelines. It is a bit annoying, I'd like to look into having this recalibrated, but that may not be a straightforward fix.

[philbie13]

mines been good only small things, rearvison mirror replaced, and 02 sensor, and that thing to do witj engine mount. hey dottu i know as common problem with the suspension in the back, the top mounting bolt for you shocking sometimes comes lose you can pull you boot apart near the wheel arch so u can see the top of the shocky mount bolt, get one of or friends to bounce up and down on the boot and see if any movement there.

[mps jim]

Hi.
Right from the word go I had noise this from inside the car pissed me off, my wife found it on a trip to Queensland it was the above unit that tell you if any seat belts are undone a bit of double sided tape fixed it (Mazda had my dash etc etc out but could not find it) what would we do with out our wife's.
I have a knocking noise from right hand side suspension.Front.
Mazda are now replacing my exhaust a weld has come apart, I asked the question can you just give me the money so I can buy a sports exhaust answer was NO.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone on the forum a safe and happy christmas & new yr.

[EVILMPS]

Hey MPS JIM,
I had the same drama with my seat-belt indicator thingy when I got it (forgot to mention it in my list), but they fixed that on it's first service.
Love your foot-note by the way, very good advice!

[TD]

I'm coming up to a 20000km service and will be asking about:

- wong wong noise (and clunky/noisey gearbox in general)
- banging noises from left rear suspension
- warped front discs
- seat belt squeak

Report card after today's service:

- "Wong wong" and noisey gbox. No problem found. Got in the car and sure enough I can still notice it...
- Banging noises from left rear. Sorted! Obviously tightened everything they could under the car, feels like they did the engine mount too.
- Warped discs. No problem found. My eyes almost fell out of my head when the service guy told me this. He said that I'd have to come back and take the foreman for a spin to show him...
- Seat belt squeak. fixed.

They also said the rear bumper was very loose so did that back up. Overall the car does feel better/tighter than it did before, but I'm still annoyed as I don't feel they explored the brakes/gbox issues properly.

2.5/5...needs improvement

[Jeev]

-Engine Mount
-Belt Tensioner Pulley
-Front right damper

[RoNi_SiZe]

Turbo replaced under warranty, TurboXS downpipe, CPE CAI and Turbosmart BOV was installed @ the time.

[Nexus]

Hey MPS JIM,
I had the same drama with my seat-belt indicator thingy when I got it (forgot to mention it in my list), but they fixed that on it's first service.
Love your foot-note by the way, very good advice!

I had seatbelt indicator rattle too. Had them re-seat the assembly - made it worse. Ended up wedging some thin black foam under the rear of the assembly and all fixed!

THAT was immensely annoying actually. I drove it away from delivery and within a hour was trying to figure out where the noise came from; and it sounds like it's coming from the dash, just to make it hard to find...

[DTT05]

i have had the following on waranty:
water pump (only after a great deal of yelling)
turbo (exhaust fitted so also had to discuss this at an elevated level)
o2 sensor
rhf strut leaking
window buttons replaced
engine bolt (factory recall)