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

 

wow! how does that happen? bad mount?

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

damn, thought mazdas were decent..

 

I blame front wheel drive.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

remember that mazda is owned by ford also.

 

that would be ford for ya..

 

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

 

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.