CedNBHTL

Found this on the golf forum. Pretty funny to me. The engine fell and took out the driver side axel.







http://www.mazda3forums.com/index.php?topic=65861.0

stangg172004

wow! how does that happen? bad mount?

CedNBHTL

yup bad motor mount or it couldn't handle the torque hehe....

Dan Martin

There are a few cases of this happening. One was a broken engine mount, the others seem to be just from the bolts loosening.

Street Spirit

Been following this on the Mazda forums since the Speed3 came out. There have been a handful of cases so far.

srika

damn, thought mazdas were decent..

TL CHROMETIDE

I blame front wheel drive.

gtg710w

it.... fell??? I was considering mazda before buying tsx, glad I didn't. acura 1 mazda 0

Dan Martin

It's just the Speed 3's that are having this problem. They have an unusual engine mount design that is causing the bolts to loosen. A little loctite on the bolts is all it takes to prevent it from happening. Mazda hasn't released a recall yet, but I imagine they will.

FiftyFive

Wow, My friends girlfriend motor fell out of her car too. She had a regular Mazda 3 though. Must be an issue.

calgary2800

Boy, that is a bad design. Bad advertising for Mazda.

Edr0e

I was going to say the same thing then i read your post

Mokos23

Well, maybe I should tell my cousin not to consider Mazda after this instance, but it just might be 1 isolated event.

cheepung

I guess they used the same mount or bolt for regular 160hp Mazda 3 and 263hp Mazdaspeed 3. What do you expect? As always, never buy first year car from any car makers.

asianspec

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remember that mazda is owned by ford also.

Sdog2012

that would be ford for ya..

SSMTL01

I would be very upset if I purchased one of these and this happened

cheepung

Fixed. Remember every car makers has problems with their first year car, I was surprised to learn new Civil had four recalls so far tie with new Sonata.