I've had my new Mazda 3 premium trim for about 12 days. Beautiful car, love driving it, but a few odd things have happened - 1. On really hot days, my rearview mirror glass has come loose (once)/fallen out completely(once). My dealer is replacing the mirror - I suspect, judging by some posts...

Last December I started to notice an occasional oily, gas smell coming thru the vents, only when the car has been idling for 30 mins and if I have just the heater going, no AC. It has happened a couple of times during the summer, but again only if it idled for 30 mins and the AC off. I have...

Hello all, I just had my 3 sport GT in for a minor service at 43k km's and all was well except my brake wear threw me off. My rears were at 50% and fronts are at 80%. The reason I find this odd is because is a cars braking not generally 70% Fronnt and 30%Rear? I asked the adviser and she gave...

Hey all, New to the forums. I'm hoping someone can possibly point me in the right direction before paying nth number of diagnostics from dealers to figure out the issue i'm experiencing. '10 Mazda 3 - When the car is cold, as I go to engage or disengage the clutch, more suddenly then slow, I...

Hi. We were just gifted a 2012 Mazda 3 automatic sedan from a family member, with about 65,000 miles on the odometer. The car is great, but we are having a problem that we cannot solve. We smell a strange odor coming from the vents under a few circumstances. The odor is hard to describe, but it...

Last night when I got home I turned the car off as usual... tranny in Park and press the Start/Stop button. I heard a weird noise and the car was on. When I turned it off again, the trip mileage app (which I show at the end of every trip) showed 0 mpg. I think what happened is that the car was...

Alright something to get out of the way first of all is my tires are garbage, I had planned to buy four new tires and get an alignment after I did brakes, put on adjustable rear control arms and fix my "growl"/vibration that I was almost positive was my right front wheel bearing. Brakes on...

So I was driving down the freeway with listening to a local radio station with the Nav on, all the sudden the Mazda logo came up on the info screen, then the back light on the screen went off, and the radio changed to XM radio. Couldn't change anything except the volume level. I was thinking...

So I am at a road block in my Galaxy Tablet install... pissing me off actually. My goal, as most know, was to NOT modify the factory harness. To do this, for example, our large radio connector I found a female end for, so essentially it will plug into the factory harness and be good to go, as...

Here is a problem that I've noticed... it's extremely specific but I feel like surely someone else on here has run into this. Hear (read?) me out. Since the touchscreen in the 3 is so predominate, of course your going to want your MP3's on your flash drive to have full proper tags with album...

Hey everyone, so about a month ago I installed a Morimoto Elite H11 HID Kit from TheRetrofitSource. Installed fine and everything, but lately I've been noticing that my passenger side headlight won't fire up every so often. It'll fire up if I cycle the headlight switch (ie, turn it off and on...

Hi All, I am having an odd issue where my 3 will not rev past 4000rpm in 4th gear in manual mode. Upon reaching 4000rpm, the rpms will dip down to around 3700-3900rpm with the accelerator pedal depressed. It will happily rev past 4000rpm in 1st, 2nd and 3rd without hesitation. Are the RPM's...

I had a strange occurance today with my raido. I have a 2010 Ms3 with the tech and bose audio. When i got in my car after work all my pre sets on my radio had been erased. Its not too big of a deal or anything but it was just strange and im just hoping its not a small simptom of a bigger...

The door panel may be normal for a purpose but not sure about the missing lock knob on the insulator.

Hi just insatlled my rm and just noticed there's a wierd sound like clak clak when there's a pot holes but nothing on the freeway even there's is a huge an even pavement as long as it's smooth. I think it's not coming from the springs, it could be the sway bar? Thanks

I noticed on more than a few times now that if I'm listening to the radio (AM/FM only) and I turn the car off, that I can still hear the radio faintly until I open the door. On other cars I have, the radio will play until I open the door, but at the same volume it was when I turned off the car...

I have a new 2010 MS3 with about 150 miles on it. I have noticed a couple of times when turning sharp into a parking space that I hear an odd noise, like a squeak or rubbing from the front. Anybody have an idea what this might be? I wouldn't imagine the stock wheels/tires would rub. Kohai Utah

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I was looking around tirerack.com and found a odd set of wheels..... Zinik Z28 Revento Bright Silver Paint Yes i know they are ugly as sin but something about them on the car kinda looks cool. NO I'M NOT GOING TO GET THE WHEELS.... dont flame!:shuriken:

Has anyone else noticed the strange connector in the tiny storage compartment near your left knee if you're sitting in the drivers seat? Anyone know what this is for?