Mazda 6 MPS (2007)
Discussion
Hello and welcome to my Reader's car thread for my recently purchased Mazda 6 MPS.
I was very happy with my last car, a Subaru Impreza WRX, but as I'd had it nearly 8 years from new and it had over 136,000 miles on it, it was time for it to go on sale
I've been looking for something similar, but a bit more "grown up" and the more understated Mazda fitted the bill.
So, after looking on PH and at local dealers for a while, I found a clean and tidy one on ebay, 2007 with 30K miles. I bid a max of £5950 but didnt hit the reserve so I emailed the seller to find out what the reserve was... it was £7500 which was over my budget, However after the auction ended I was still the high bidder and the seller emailed me to say I could have the car for the £5950 I bid! Wow! a 2007 30K car for under six K. Absolute bargain
The seller was a pleasure to deal with and I collected the car this week. As always with a s/h car you find good things and bad things once you have had it a day or two.
Good stuff
- It has a 20Gb HDD built into the Bose stereo
Bad stuff
- hasn't been serviced for 13000 miles (and was low on oil)
- Rear tyres are Nankangs, Fronts are Bridgestones - should be interesting
- No tax and it costs £425 a year (but then I knew that)
I'll put some pics up at the weekend.
I was very happy with my last car, a Subaru Impreza WRX, but as I'd had it nearly 8 years from new and it had over 136,000 miles on it, it was time for it to go on sale
I've been looking for something similar, but a bit more "grown up" and the more understated Mazda fitted the bill.
So, after looking on PH and at local dealers for a while, I found a clean and tidy one on ebay, 2007 with 30K miles. I bid a max of £5950 but didnt hit the reserve so I emailed the seller to find out what the reserve was... it was £7500 which was over my budget, However after the auction ended I was still the high bidder and the seller emailed me to say I could have the car for the £5950 I bid! Wow! a 2007 30K car for under six K. Absolute bargain
The seller was a pleasure to deal with and I collected the car this week. As always with a s/h car you find good things and bad things once you have had it a day or two.
Good stuff
- It has a 20Gb HDD built into the Bose stereo
Bad stuff
- hasn't been serviced for 13000 miles (and was low on oil)
- Rear tyres are Nankangs, Fronts are Bridgestones - should be interesting
- No tax and it costs £425 a year (but then I knew that)
I'll put some pics up at the weekend.
It's still pretty good so far although I've found another couple of niggles...
- The electric window switches on the drivers door for the other three windows don't work. Hopefully that's just a fuse, they work OK on the door itself.
- the menu system on the stereo that allows you to edit and delete tracks from the HDD doesn't seem to do anything, looks like I'm stuck with the previous owner's music tastes. Good job he liked Kings of Leon and not Celine Dion.
And the good stuff...
It has a sunroof! I hadn't even noticed until someone pointed it out.
27K (4000 miles late) service is booked for next week.
- The electric window switches on the drivers door for the other three windows don't work. Hopefully that's just a fuse, they work OK on the door itself.
- the menu system on the stereo that allows you to edit and delete tracks from the HDD doesn't seem to do anything, looks like I'm stuck with the previous owner's music tastes. Good job he liked Kings of Leon and not Celine Dion.
And the good stuff...
It has a sunroof! I hadn't even noticed until someone pointed it out.
27K (4000 miles late) service is booked for next week.
garycat said:
- The electric window switches on the drivers door for the other three windows don't work. Hopefully that's just a fuse, they work OK on the door itself.
Nope, it's not a fuse. The battery has obviously been disconnected and they need reseting:The power window main switch connector, or driver-side power window motor connector has been
disconnected.
Carry out the following procedure to resume operation:
1. Turn the ignition switch to the ON position.
2. Press the driver side power window main switch and fully open the driver side window.
3. Pull up the driver side power window main switch to manual-up position to fully close the driver side window,
and keep holding the switch up at the position for about 2 seconds to complete initial setting.
TWO-STEP DOWN FUNCTION OPERATIVE/NON-OPERATIVE SWITCHING PROCEDURE
Note
By following the procedure below, the two-step down function is switched to non-operative when it is
operative, and to operative when it is non-operative.
Turn the Ignition on
Within 5 sec
perform the auto open two times
perform the auto close two times
turn the ignition off and within 40 seconds and repeat the above sequence.
Repeat for all the windows.
garycat said:
- the menu system on the stereo that allows you to edit and delete tracks from the HDD doesn't seem to do anything, looks like I'm stuck with the previous owner's music tastes. Good job he liked Kings of Leon and not Celine Dion.
That should also work properly - check you are actually trying to edit HDD tracks not a CD left in. Keep trying and you'll get the hang of it eventually, it's a bit counter-intuitive! 
PS - don't mess about, fit new tyres all round and take the opportunity to swap from the odd-sized original 215/45/18 to the very common, much cheaper and available in all popular brands 225/40/18 size. They fit and drive just like the originals but sharpen up the steering.
Caulkhead said:
...lots of useful stuff
Cheers, I'll give that window procedure a try (I knew I shoulda bought Caterham!)Re the Audio system, I'll try disconnecting the battery (after making sure I have the security code) and see if that will reset it, and if that doesn't work I'll get the dealer to check it out next week.
garycat said:
Caulkhead said:
...lots of useful stuff
Cheers, I'll give that window procedure a try (I knew I shoulda bought Caterham!)Re the Audio system, I'll try disconnecting the battery (after making sure I have the security code) and see if that will reset it, and if that doesn't work I'll get the dealer to check it out next week.
garycat said:
Caulkhead said:
...lots of useful stuff
Cheers, I'll give that window procedure a try (I knew I shoulda bought Caterham!)Re the Audio system, I'll try disconnecting the battery (after making sure I have the security code) and see if that will reset it, and if that doesn't work I'll get the dealer to check it out next week.
I can also get you the code procedure for your radio if it does go into ERR, PM me if you need it
Yeah the window procedure worked, thanks for that.
First tank of fuel got me 335 miles with the range info showing I had 2 miles left, but actually only got 54.3 litres into the 60 litre tank so in reality there would have been about 30 more miles to empty.
MPG works out at 28, which is a bit disappointing considering I was on cruise control at 80 for most of the journeys.
And for the doubters ;-)
First tank of fuel got me 335 miles with the range info showing I had 2 miles left, but actually only got 54.3 litres into the 60 litre tank so in reality there would have been about 30 more miles to empty.
MPG works out at 28, which is a bit disappointing considering I was on cruise control at 80 for most of the journeys.
And for the doubters ;-)
S3000 said:
how does the driving compared to impreza ?
The car is much heavier (about 250kg) and you can really feel that, but it is a quieter and a more comfortable ride. Then again, my impreza had the prodrive spring kit so it was a very firm ride with fantastic handling. The Mazda is more compliant over bumps and potholes but it does wallow more, especially when you floor the throttle - the front lifts and the rear squats down whereas the scoob would stay flat.I do a lot of long motorway stuff so the comfort, the cruise control, the great stereo and the ride are more than compensation for the lack of B-road hooning ability that the scoob was so good at.
I'm planning to get a remap from Litchfield Imports which should make the bhp/ton of the Mazda closer to that of the scoob, so I'll post about that when I do it.
The 27K service was completed this week by JCT600 in Leeds, total cost was £218 which isn't too bad for Oil, Oil Filter and Air filter. I was also informed that mt stereo would cost at least £400 to fix as it needed a new hard drive. Sod that, I'll get an iPod Adaptor
I was also told that one of the side indicator repeater bulbs was blown and would cost about £20. Thinking it was just the bulb I said I'd fix that myself, but after buying a 501A(amber) bulb set I find that the repeater is one sealed unit and you have to replace the whole thing. They could have told me that!
I was also told that one of the side indicator repeater bulbs was blown and would cost about £20. Thinking it was just the bulb I said I'd fix that myself, but after buying a 501A(amber) bulb set I find that the repeater is one sealed unit and you have to replace the whole thing. They could have told me that!
garycat said:
The 27K service was completed this week by JCT600 in Leeds, total cost was £218 which isn't too bad for Oil, Oil Filter and Air filter. I was also informed that mt stereo would cost at least £400 to fix as it needed a new hard drive. Sod that, I'll get an iPod Adaptor
I was also told that one of the side indicator repeater bulbs was blown and would cost about £20. Thinking it was just the bulb I said I'd fix that myself, but after buying a 501A(amber) bulb set I find that the repeater is one sealed unit and you have to replace the whole thing. They could have told me that!
Really nice car!I was also told that one of the side indicator repeater bulbs was blown and would cost about £20. Thinking it was just the bulb I said I'd fix that myself, but after buying a 501A(amber) bulb set I find that the repeater is one sealed unit and you have to replace the whole thing. They could have told me that!
£400 for a hard drive though? :|
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