[976-RADD]

Car has 40k miles, and is on the original tires. General wear is surprisingly good. The problem is the inner block of tread has less wear than the rest of the tread; The inner block is squared off where it boarders the next block(s) of tread, and without showing a gradual wear. Am I making sense?

 

[Atl-Atl]

Car has 40k miles, and is on the original tires. General wear is surprisingly good. The problem is the inner block of tread has less wear than the rest of the tread; The inner block is squared off where it boarders the next block(s) of tread, and without showing a gradual wear. Am I making sense?

Are you asking a question? Yes, you need an alignment and new tires.

 

[2000JettaGLXVR6]

Are you asking a question? Yes, you need an alignment and new tires.

Could also be bad struts. My Subaru did this.

 

[976-RADD]

Yes, I'm looking for input. Dealership said it was the shocks. I've never seen tires wear like that...with positive camber wear, on a car with slightly negative camber.

 

[JOHNS92JETTA]

Any pics of the tires? The Mazda5 is known for having crappy rear shocks.

 

[976-RADD]

No pics. Car's at the dealer. I thought worn rear shocks caused inner wear.

 

[msummers]

friend of mine had the same issues. mazda didnt do anything so he put in H&R springs and shocks. no issues now.

 

[BRealistic]

Any pics of the tires? The Mazda5 is known for having crappy rear shocks.

Yeah.
The Mazda5 is basically a tall Mazda3 wagon mechanically.
That's good because the Mazda3 is a really good car.
But.. not the added weight in the rear mean the rear suspension is prone to early issues/wear.
That's the Mazda5's only real issue iirc, and that can be fixed with aftermarket parts.

 

[vortexblue]

Had a similar issue on our 5.
I replaced the shocks with Konis, did the sway bar bushings and aligned it. The new Conti's seem to be wearing fine.
I bought the rear trailing arm bushings, but didn't need them.

Oh, the get a CPE rear engine mount if yours fails. It's pretty nice.

 

[ByronLLN]

Yeah.
The Mazda5 is basically a tall Mazda3 wagon mechanically.
That's good because the Mazda3 is a really good car.
But.. not the added weight in the rear mean the rear suspension is prone to early issues/wear.
That's the Mazda5's only real issue iirc, and that can be fixed with aftermarket parts.

The Speed3 has the same problem. They may even use the same rear shocks.

 

[1985Jetta]

Cane in expecting camber and stance, leaving disappointed.

 

[syncro87]

If I remember correctly from my Mazda5 ownership days, this is a common and documented issue with the 5. I think there are kits / parts to mostly mitigate the problem. The earlier 5's especially, were prone to ridiculously fast rear tire wear, iirc.

 

[JOHNS92JETTA]

The Speed3 has the same problem. They may even use the same rear shocks.

By part number they are different. More than likely the valving inside.

 

[GolfTango]

My rear stock shocks were gone by 45K, replaced with KYB shocks, problem solved. And it was the only suspension work I did in 100K except for greasing the rear sway bushings.

 

[MrKevkevL]

Cane in expecting camber and stance, leaving disappointed.

Yup :laugh:

 

[JTuhkanen]

I had exactly the same issue you described on a mk3 Ford Mondeo wagon. It was fixed by changing new springs and shocks after realignment didn't help.