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June-18th-2007, 03:43 AM
#2
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Location: Edmonton, Canada
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1) For the rims, not much you can do about that... I still don't see how your front end was fine and got through the passageway, but yet the backend scapped on both sides...
2) Are they aftermarket fogs? They look like it, so it's hard to say whats wrong. It's most likely the custom wiring, if all your other electronics are fine.
3) Did you check tire pressure? Uneven pressure would cause a pull. It's doing it on mine right now, just haven't got around to fixing it
2) Are they aftermarket fogs? They look like it, so it's hard to say whats wrong. It's most likely the custom wiring, if all your other electronics are fine.
3) Did you check tire pressure? Uneven pressure would cause a pull. It's doing it on mine right now, just haven't got around to fixing it
June-18th-2007, 09:31 AM
#3
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Join Date: May 2007
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keep faith man dont toss the maz just now every problem your having can be a result of not the mazda but the aftermarket parts....
scraping the wheels...damn your a majikal if you can scrape the rear and not the front...
fogs... wiring stripped or exposed, or can be a bad connection at either the fogs themselves or the switch....
pulling.....alignment would be what im thinkin
scraping the wheels...damn your a majikal if you can scrape the rear and not the front...
fogs... wiring stripped or exposed, or can be a bad connection at either the fogs themselves or the switch....
pulling.....alignment would be what im thinkin
July-17th-2007, 09:25 PM
#4
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: MD
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Don't hate the car.
Rims don't bang into curbs on their own.
If you had factory fogs, I'd understand your anger, but you or someone else put your fogs on, so....
Alignments don't just go out on Mazda 3's. The alignment is out on my RSX too.
I'm a Honda guy but we just got a 3s GT for the GF, I must say it's a pretty snazzy little car. Love all the features it has and it looks pretty tight. Now if only they had made the sedan the MSP version instead of the hatch......
Good luck with your car, 2 of the items are fixable, you just have to take it to the right people to get them fixed.
Rims don't bang into curbs on their own.
If you had factory fogs, I'd understand your anger, but you or someone else put your fogs on, so....
Alignments don't just go out on Mazda 3's. The alignment is out on my RSX too.
I'm a Honda guy but we just got a 3s GT for the GF, I must say it's a pretty snazzy little car. Love all the features it has and it looks pretty tight. Now if only they had made the sedan the MSP version instead of the hatch......
Good luck with your car, 2 of the items are fixable, you just have to take it to the right people to get them fixed.
July-18th-2007, 10:38 AM
#5
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Rochester, New York
Posts: 2,517
1. rims are repairable.. but they didn't damage themselves :P buy tires with a rim guard edge if you don't want to put forth the effort to be more careful but want to prevent further damage.
2. fog lights.. well as everyone else said those aren't stock, so it isn't the car's fault that the wiring has gone bad. Either have someone more experienced with automotive electrical wiring fix it or just remove them.
3. Your alignment being off could easily be related to the fact that you banged up your wheels.. you had to hit something for that to happen. If it's slight, it can most likely be fixed with a slight adjustment. You may have bent an arm of the suspension though..
don't be down about your car. On monday my car had a motor mount shatter (see www.flickr.com/photos/clauretano for details), which totally severed my turbo downpipe leaving my car in a state where I had to limp it home and it was extremely loud.
my front sway bar bushings are totally dead and it'll take 6 man hours to replace them. <-- this one isn't my fault, it's Mazdas for the design and placement of the front sway bar bushings and the fact that at like 65k miles they were already toast.
my car gets 13mpg if I romp on it, consumes a quart of oil for each autocross I do, has pretty badly rusting rear fenders, has a hood that doesn't perfectly match the paint because the rest of the front end got repainted while another hood was on, is rusting under the hood, has no air conditioning because the fan isn't there for it, has all sorts of rattles, creaks, squeaks, feels slow as hell because of the severed downpipe, has a faulty/broken boost and egt gauge, etc.
mod your car, your car will be more high maintenance and have some issues down the road. Don't hate the car because it was modded, hate the person who modded it
2. fog lights.. well as everyone else said those aren't stock, so it isn't the car's fault that the wiring has gone bad. Either have someone more experienced with automotive electrical wiring fix it or just remove them.
3. Your alignment being off could easily be related to the fact that you banged up your wheels.. you had to hit something for that to happen. If it's slight, it can most likely be fixed with a slight adjustment. You may have bent an arm of the suspension though..
don't be down about your car. On monday my car had a motor mount shatter (see www.flickr.com/photos/clauretano for details), which totally severed my turbo downpipe leaving my car in a state where I had to limp it home and it was extremely loud.
my front sway bar bushings are totally dead and it'll take 6 man hours to replace them. <-- this one isn't my fault, it's Mazdas for the design and placement of the front sway bar bushings and the fact that at like 65k miles they were already toast.
my car gets 13mpg if I romp on it, consumes a quart of oil for each autocross I do, has pretty badly rusting rear fenders, has a hood that doesn't perfectly match the paint because the rest of the front end got repainted while another hood was on, is rusting under the hood, has no air conditioning because the fan isn't there for it, has all sorts of rattles, creaks, squeaks, feels slow as hell because of the severed downpipe, has a faulty/broken boost and egt gauge, etc.
mod your car, your car will be more high maintenance and have some issues down the road. Don't hate the car because it was modded, hate the person who modded it
