As many of you know i drive a lot..58k in a year. well i recently took my car to the dealership to get this wierd noise fixed from the left side of my suspension. ive never had problems with my car at all, until recently where i had enough so i took the car into the dealership. I was talking to one the technicians there and apparently more and more people are bringing their cars in for the same thing. Wheel bearings are wearing out prematurely, which was causing this wierd noise from under my car. The sound sort of sounds like worn out tires when your on the highway. I also get a lot of vibration form my brakes when i gently touch them on the highway, whenever i do that my entire steering wheel shakes.
the technician is replacing my wheel bearing on the drivers side and inspecting the one on the passenger side, im also getting new rotors since they were just serviced and machined at the 48k service and the problem is persisting. so im gonna end up with new rotors and new wheel bearing after jsut over a year of driving.
Mazda better get a grip on producing cars with parts that last a little longer then a year. Im pretty happy now since my car is back to normal. Just thought id share.
If you have a strange sound coming from under your car. dont hesitate to make a appointment. And dont let them trick you by trying to tell you its your tires. this is my second time for this problem and the first time they told me it was my high performance tires...now i came prepared. the tech a mazda tried this its your tires bullshit again. so i happened to bring a set of OEM rubber with me and told them to switch the tires and if its the tires id pay for their time and the charge of the switch. they agreed, and i was right. i wrote a letter to mazda canada basically bitching about how pissed off i was when the dealership knew there was a problem with the car and did nothing to try to fix it.....
the point here is DONT TAKE ANY BULLSHIT FROM THE DEALERSHIP, your the ones that drive your car every day not the technicians, so when a creepy sound appears you know something is wrong.
just thought id share my experience