![]() Looked in the rear view mirror to see the gas tank skating across the shoulder of the highway into the ditch - brackets had rusted off and tank fell off the car at 70 mph. Heard a horrible noise and the car suddenly shut down. Favorite one is about a guy whose family was on vacation in an early '60s Thunderbird. Some would already have rust holes through major body parts within two years - and we are talking about a thicker grade of sheet metal. It has lived seven out of eight years in NE PA - go figure.ĭo not worry - have heard horror stories about cars from the 50s and 60s. My daily is a 2000 Uglyota - and it has zero rust. of 2002 - it has only been on a salted northern road for three years.hate to think of what it would look like if driven in PA all its life. Is recalling 42,540 combination corner and bumper lamp assemblies of various part numbers sold for use as aftermarket equipment for various passenger vehicles. We like how it looks, drives, and handles. Recall 85849 USA: Decreased lighting visibility may result in a vehicle crash. 2002 Mazda Protege5 4dr Wagon (2.0L 4cyl 5M) 7 of 7 people found this review helpful. Part that really sucks is that since purchase in Oct. Consumer complaints for 2002 Mazda Protege/Protege 5. My 5 has rust on both sides along the wheel well lip. Like I said, it's being swept under the rug only to be forgotten, but not by me.10% of the salt mined around the world each year ends up on roads in North America during the winter. I doubt anyone higher up in Mazda knows about it. Has anyone had issues like this involving rust? If so, what action was taken? So far, I've basically been having to pull teeth. Had my car never been in the body shop, I'd have never known this crap is there. The only way to access those affected areas is to take the mirrors off. I told the guy today that it is a factory issue and it has to be fixed somehow, some way and by someone. ![]() But does anything I said above make sense? Why would a 5 year old car have such crazy rust on it? I have pics, but only of the left side which is not as bad as the right. This original guy who started looking into my car is supposed to call me back and is supposedly looking further into it. I'm just bitching at this point, anyway, but it's frustrating as hell. It figures that my car is basically in the early stages of falling apart because I take such good care of it. My girlfriend has a 13 year old Ford Taurus that was never cared for like my car has been and it has not one spot of rust anywhere on it. I told him that everybody has been sweeping this issue under the rug, telling me it's not covered in the warranty and that it's out of warranty parameters. So I just totally vented to the guy, being polite, but told him a 5 year old car that is well taken care of SHOULD NOT have any kind of rust on it, minor or major. Also, my left door, under where the mirror bolts on, has rust, just not as bad, but just as destructive as any other rust. No call, so I called again and got the same response until I asserted myself and started telling them what the hell is going on with my car. ![]() Sincerely, Anita Mouton Toyota Customer Experience. I was told that original guy would call me back today. We are available from 5 AM to 6 PM, Pacific Time, Monday through Friday and from 7 AM to 4 PM on Saturday. yesterday and the lady wouldn't even hear a word of what I had to say because someone else had taken notes on it before. I have seen some rust under the car, but nothing very alarming or crazy like what's under mirror. I also had my car checked out at a Mazda dealer and the arrogant service manager proceeded to tell me my car was a northern car and that it has rust on the calipers, which is absolute bullshit, and that the chassis also has rust. Also, it has never spent a day in snow or any terrible weather conditions other than Florida's rainy seasons. My car is almost 5 years old and has just over 56k miles. and they just wrote it off as not covered under the rust perforation warranty. Reply Jugrnot Shade Tree Additional comment actions. So I recently reported it to the Mazda Corp. Owned 2 P5s, sold the rusty one for cheap as chips, still own the second one as its a NC car. Would have been nice to have the treatment back when they recalled the other years instead waiting for the damage we knew would show up. NovemMazda Mazda6 subframe rust is no longer the focus of a federal investigation after the automaker agreed to recall 2009-2010 model year cars. I've seem it myself in person and it is the most corroded, flaky, reddish brown rust I've ever seen on a 5 year old car. Now that they let the frames rot for 8 years, theyre finally admitting the rust issue on these years also. where do I even start? Earlier this year, my car paid a visit to the body shop for some repairs and they found crazy rust underneath the right mirror where it bolts on to the car. As the title says, I have a 2007 Mazda3, 4 door, purchased brand new in 2007 with just 12 miles on it. ![]()
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