Mazurfer

New addition to the family.
Bought this 2005 Mazda 3 with about 40k miles on it for my daughter this weekend!

Mazurfer

Will probably have to at least poke around on the 3 forum, but if anyone here has a 3 along with their 8.................have any little helpful tidbits?

bassy

Sweet!

My mom has an '06 Mazda3 GT sedan. It's stock, but it still handles nice and is still very fun to drive. It's been super reliable for the past three years, too.

Bigbacon

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I'm trying to get my wife to replace her Subaru Legacy with a Mazda 3 5door but she says it's not cute enough.

I just want her to get rid of the craptastic legacy sedan because it blows and always has.

Maybe it's because I really like the 3s.

Mazurfer

Yeah............I was going to go all conservative and everything on her, but I just like the three's as well. I wanted a Galaxy Gray one instead of Black, but nobody would meet my price. We actually looked at Elantra's and Accents(she had one before) and just couldn't do it no mo...............had to get something with some style.

laythor

automatic? really?

dillsrotary

Nice surfer, love the 5 doors.

My first car was a mazda also, 91 protege, great first cars to learn in.

Mazurfer

^^...............Ha Ha.........daughter didn't want a stick. What can I say???????

Mazurfer

Oh, she's had a few cars........she's 24. It's basically because she just totaled her old car and graduates college soon.....so what the hell.............it's an early graduation present.

I just saw that you were bailing out on us....time to move on I guess.

ZachLegend

Hatchback is the way to go! So sick

Mazurfer

Oil change with filter(cannister type) wasn't an issue but did take a little longer as it's best to drop the undertray to get to the filter.
BTW........changing our cabin filter is a breeze compared to this thing. I did our 8 filter in less than five minutes, and this bastard took me about an hour! Ugh!