1.7

hardly worth mentioning
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
100,000 miles

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problem #1

Sep 022013

MAZDASPEED6 4-cyl

  • 100,000 miles
An extremely common problem with many vehicles is clouding of the plastic lenses over headlights. This problem is exceedingly severely bad on the mazdaspeed 6. the clouding cannot be repaired via headlight restoration kits as once it's removed, it comes back even worse after. The only solution is to replace the prohibitively expensive headlight assemblies. Since these assemblies include the hid headlights electronics (ballast) they are incredibly expensive. These headlights have been known to cloud and become completely worthless within a year or two. On my 8 year old vehicle the headlights are completely useless at night, the high beams produce less light than low beams on most other vehicles. The easy solution for Mazda would be to recall the headlights and retrofit a lens (glass or otherwise) that will not cloud. My car is unsafe to drive at night due to the ineffectiveness of the low beams.

- Sunnyvale, CA, USA