MX5 ND Gearbox Issues UK

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Flick64

Original Poster:

14 posts

136 months

Saturday 8th February 2020
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Hi
I was wondering how many people on Pistonheads have had gearbox issues with their MX5 ND.

Kind Regards

bennno

12,738 posts

276 months

Saturday 8th February 2020
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Not us, which engine, age and what fault?

Flick64

Original Poster:

14 posts

136 months

Saturday 8th February 2020
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Hi
66 Plate 1.5

Very hard to shift from 1st to 2nd and 3rd to 2nd.
Also turns out it was whining as well.

No crunching but you had to pause betweeen changing gear or change gear slowly.

morrisk1

637 posts

250 months

Saturday 8th February 2020
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There is a thread on this on MX5OC, not checked it for a while. My 16 plt 2.0l hasn't experienced it as yet.

Flick64

Original Poster:

14 posts

136 months

Saturday 8th February 2020
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Hi
I have just had a new gearbox fitted at under 17k miles.
It has made a substantial difference to the car.

The car had not been driven hard and had full service history.

Nuisance

4,443 posts

182 months

Wednesday 12th February 2020
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There are examples of it, but it's probably a very small proportion of all NDs. I've certainly read of issues though, but seemingly mainly in the US - possibly because they tend to track/Auto-X their MX5s more?

I think that the current ND is allegedly on Revision 5 as far as gearboxes go.

grudas

1,339 posts

175 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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mazda has revised the box a few times.. its either rev 4 or 5 now!

so early ND's have the rev 1 which had issues.

mazda US admitted to it and replaced under warranty not the case in uk.

no idea what it costs but they are known to go.

not massive numbers but still a thing that happens

abarth 124 for e.g. is good still because it uses the old NC 3.5 box which is stronger than the ND/

Flick64

Original Poster:

14 posts

136 months

Sunday 16th February 2020
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Hi
Thanks very much for your reply’s.

I have had a new gearbox installed into my partners MX5.
I have to say I am very dissatisfied with the response that we had from the dealership and from Mazda UK.

When the fault was reported to the dealership the car was still under warranty.
I couldn’t get the car booked into the dealership because they didn’t have any time until the car was three days out of warranty.

Eventually we came to a resolution that involved Mazda paying for a percentage of the repair and we paid the rest.

We opted for a new gearbox in the end because the parts required to repair the original gearbox where not in stock and the lead time was excessive.

I have to say I was and am not impressed with the response from Mazda UK.

We were going to purchase a new car this year (2ltr MX5) but this is now looking very very unlikely


roddo

573 posts

202 months

Sunday 16th February 2020
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Ask on the mx5 Facebook and oc forum and you will find people in Sheffield updating the gearboxes