5 is number 1!

[Soya]

yeah, perfect for low profile bengs like me.

[Lightspeed]

Your 5 is navy blue like your avatar? I kinda like the silver one

[Soya]

reckon the platinum silver doesn't look too shabby. blends nicely wif the ah beng lights too.

[Lightspeed]

Yup ... which was why I liked the silver... 'cos it blends with the rear taililghts Looks good!

[Dagger13]

Wow

[Beanoyip]

How abt black with black tinted lights... wouldn't it be nice also?

[Lightspeed]

Hmmm.... but I still feel that black doesn't make the kit stand out

[Seansene]

Yeah, the plat silver looks pretty neat

[Soya]

see, the decision was easy ain't it?

 

so when?

[Seansene]

Wait lah... let you stand out a little bit more first

[Alvinchua1975]

maybe u guys wanna hold on a while and read from the mazda forum on how the driver actually feel.... there;s some sound emitting out form the car. Read it yourself...

 

http://www.mazdaclubsg.org/forum/index.php?webtag=MAZDA

[Soya]

eh, wait is a 4 letter word ok?

[Seanboi]

with HID lights... haha... looks damn cool.

[RadX]

and then we would have an 'almost mz5 club' too

[Magfocus]

Just read the Topgear review on the diesel versions of the Mz5, new Zafira and the Touran..the Zafi won that test. But the Mz5 is touted as the "most fun"

[Seansene]

there's some sound emitting out form the car

 

Uh, the engine?

[Kanr]

The best is to go back to agent where they can provide a good n full check services!!!

[Alvinchua1975]

Y not u read from the forum itself to have a clearer picture.

Anyway for Your convenience, I've attached the original text as below:

 

 

 

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From: Mazda5 12 Aug 11:35

To: ALL 1 of 33

8368.1

 

Dear All,

I am a owner of the new Mazda5. I have enjoyed this super MPV and am very proud of owning it for about one week until a recent problem I found.

There is a high pitch irritating buzzing sound from the dash board that comes on every 12 sec. and lasts for 8 sec. I found out later that the sound is due to the air con.

I brought my car for a check at the Mazda workshop at Macpherson. The service adviser and the superviser brushed off the problem as 'operational sound' 8-O and implied that I am overly sensitive and being difficult. I insisted on seeing the managers.

The managers told me that ALL 8-O units of Mazda5 have such sound, although to a varying degree of loudness and advised me to live with it. They said that they would be looking for solutions but did not promise when they could provide one. The solution that they are going to come out will not be to totally remove the sound but just to minimise it. That means the sound will still be there!!! They also claimed that they had highlighted the problem to Japan. However, they added that this was normal sound and then currently not many people had complained.

I somehow have the feeling that they are not going to seriously address my problem unless more people highlight the problem to them.

Cars in Singapore is not cheap. How can such an irritating sound be considered as a 'operational sound' and 'normal'? Even if it is, my previous Nissan Sunny which now costs a fraction of Mazda5, has no such 'operational sound'. Was Nissan Sunny then 'abnormal'?

I feel that Mazda should be more serious towards customers' feedback. I am thus appealing to ALL Mazda5 users to listen to this buzzing sound and lodge a complain to the workshop so that they take up this matter more seriously and with greater urgency. Get everyone out of the car. Turn off the stereo, turn the fan speed to one. It will be best if you hear it at night or after running a distance. It will come on almost immediately when the fan is turned on, lasts for 8 sec and then goes off for 12 sec. and comes back on again. You have paid for the cars and how could you just accept it that this is 'operational sound' when it is not found in other made of Mazda?

For potential buyers of Mazda5, if you can live with paying such a price for a car with an irritating buzzing sound which is 'operational', welcome on board the Mazda5 family, even though I have to admit, Mazda5 is the MPV that is the most fun to drive around. But my enthausiam to share my joy of this car is totally lost with the way my problem is addressed. I can only enjoy driving it again when this sound is totally removed!!

I have actually posted this message in other board but was recommended to post here for greater viewship.

I have attached the sound recorded using my Palm.

 

EDITED: 12/08/05 11:51 by MAZDA5

 

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