What a week..

No- I took it to a place that WASN’T a Mazda dealership for the first time ever- from February to June - and despite my concerns they ignored me. When I lost my marbles- they took it down road to the “sister” Mazda dealership who found the issues immediately. I thought my husband knew what he was doing - and maybe - since no one else was hearing what I was hearing it was nothing. I am a nurse not a mechanic.. but by the end I knew something -despite everyone ignoring me was not right. It was the state inspection- which I had mistakenly thought was thorough and related to human safety.

Sure- but- don’t eat me alive! I am not a car expert and I relied on my husband to make decisions along the way that may or may not have been good!

It had 158k miles on it and I use it for long highway drives for work. In February it started making this swoosh swoosh swoosh sound in the back passenger side at moderate speeds. My husband drove it, didn’t hear it. My son drove it, didn’t hear it. He took it in to shop- they didn’t hear it. It, of course gets worse. Then it starts making a creaking sound when you backed up while turning. It’s happening all the time. No one can recreate it even though it’s making me nuts. Oil changes- whatever- everyone thinks I must be crazy. Finally- June comes my inspection is due - they’ll figure it out. I’ll get my brakes done. She’ll come back good as new. Nope. Passes inspection. All new brakes. Tires rotated. Blah blah. They didn’t find anything. The brake job was terrible.. super soft, the noises are worse than ever. He says, it takes a few days for them to adjust. Ok but I am furious. They don’t get better. I have my husband take it back. He HEARS nothing, he says they “forgot to close the bleeders” and the mechanic can’t hear any clanging or swoosh swoosh swoosh. I am out of my mind at this point. I make him get in the car and take him to an empty parking lot. The whole time there - I am trying to get him to hear the swoosh swoosh - he says can’t hear it…. I pull forward and back into a spot - viola CLaNG WHINe clanG! He looks at me and says- “You have been driving around like that?? “ Anyway- I didn’t murder him or anything but I thought about it. On the way home he says- that sound?? The cha cha cha cha ? That’s bad. I don’t know how I didn’t end up in jail. Anyway- next morning he calls me and says- “Something I have bad news- you have 2 broken axles and the rear differential needs to be replaced. The master cylinder(s)? is/are leaking that’s why the brakes are so soft… “ and then I tuned him out because I was so furious. Why didn’t they see all this the previous week and the time before that? and the time before that?

To be fair- it wasn’t looked at the Mazda dealer I went to without issue until my husband stopped working there because he switched jobs. I COULD have fixed it. But, that sweet baby 2017 owed me nothing, I owned it outright and as much I loved her.. it was time. I got a good trade for her and walked away with the CE below book because I am sleeping with the sales manager. Also, I want to take a flame thrower to the shitty service department and the owner knows it.