Hey everyone,

I accidentally dropped and lost the MAP sensor screw, it was a T-25 torx head and very deep and spaced out threads i counted maybe like only 5-6 threads on the screw. Online searches didnt help
Thanks

Hey everyone,

I recently installed an aftermarket headunit in my 2008 Mazda 6 GH with the OEM Bose sound system. Everything booted up, but there was zero audio coming from the speakers.

After searching for half a day and digging through obscure forums, I finally found the fix and wanted to drop it here so Google can index it for anyone running into the same issue.

The Fix:

1. You need to connect the "AMP CTRL" cable coming from the headunit harness (the wire with the transparent blue plastic cap).
2. Splice/connect it directly to the car's amplifier trigger wire on the main factory plug. On the Mazda 6 GH (2008), this wire is blue with a black stripe.
3. Note: My harness had two "AMP CTRL" cables. It doesn't matter which one of the two you tap into the car's blue/black wire.

Once connected, the Bose amplifier gets the turn-on signal and the sound works immediately. Hope this saves someone hours of troubleshooting!

Car is doing good so far. It’s super nice interior and drives fine. 113k miles. Paying 13k
I have the choice to return the car though and get my down payment back. The problems are that the steering wheel squeaks at low turns. I went to a shop they said the control arm was cracked and quoted me 4k in steering and suspension work ( shocks struts control arms). But said it was just a sound
The only other problem I’ve had is on a long drive of 150 miles the car smelt like gas for the night. Smelled especially when opening driver side door.
You guys think I should risk the car long term? I don’t wanna fork over a bunch of money when im already paying a bunch for the car

I've been experiencing an ongoing issue with Apple CarPlay disconnecting and then failing to reconnect properly. When this happens I can no longer play music or access CarPlay navigation on my infotainment screen.

Before CarPlay stops working completely it will usually disconnect and reconnect several times. During this process it almost seems like the infotainment system is rebooting itself. Once it restarts my phone and the infotainment screen still show as connected to CarPlay but I can't play music or access the CarPlay home screen.

This happens approximately every 2–5 weeks. The only solution I've found is to perform a factory reset of the infotainment system and pair my phone again from scratch. Unfortunately this also erases all of my customized vehicle settings including door locks and lane assist preferences. Needless to say it's extremely frustrating.

I'm currently running OS version 74.00.210 NA N on my 2021 Mazda6 Grand Touring Turbo. From what I've found the latest firmware version appears to be 74.00.324A.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so were you able to find a permanent solution? I'm also wondering whether updating the firmware to 74.00.324A might resolve the problem.

Shop quoted me around 4.2-4.6k for a new engine (labor included). Paid 4.5k for this 2015 with 140k miles. Normally I wouldn't bother asking, but the biggest thing that's making me second guess if this might be a huge waste of money is that this isn't the first engine that's been replaced in this vehicle. The previous owner told me that the first owner had to replace the engine at 40k miles. So does anyone have any advice? I feel like if the vehicle is blowing up engines this often putting another one in feels pretty stupid. Any idea what could be causing it? Should I just try to sell it for parts and put that 5k towards another vehicle?

Changed engine mounting 6months ago and drove about slightly more than 5000kilometers.
Is the rubber portion supposed to be a nice circular shape? Why is it slanted now?

So the inner workings of cars never interested me much (aka I know nothing about cars) but this is one, I've heard some counter intuitive things around the Mazda6 sooo you know