Faults:

Replaced valves at 60K.

General Comments:

This car is a great value for the money. I have put over 150K miles on this 4-cyclinder engine and the car had 47K when I bought it.

I will keep it until it no longer runs, and it still sounds quiet and runs smooth.

I highly recommend the manual version of this car.

Faults:

Transmission went out.

Head gaskets went out.

General Comments:

It's a good reliable car except that the transmission all of a sudden just went out, a lot of the same problems I had with this car other people are seeming to have with it as well, so this tells me there are some major flaws with Mazda's in general!

Faults:

Oil pump began failing the week after we got it. The lifters hammered when the engine warmed up. We were looking for a simple good used car and got a big headache. A man at my Church works at a dealer, and he replaced the oil pump for me and while he had it apart, he changed the timing belt and the water pump for me. I paid him 500 for his labor, and according to the labor hour book, I got a bargain on that.

General Comments:

Serious Transmission problems. Overdrive light flashed, and we needed another transmission. Aamco fixed it. They said this is a trouble prone transmission.

Faults:

Worst car ever. My transmission went at about 75,000 miles and that cost me about 2100. Now it's at about 124,000 miles and the o/d started flashing and when it shifts from 1-2 gear it jerks extremely bad. And it barely started slipping, I barely got it home by driving in 2nd gear which helped somewhat.

General Comments:

Whoever is thinking about buying one, don't! go with anything Toyota or Honda.

Faults:

I have a Mazda 626 1995, manual transmission, and it's running really good. I had only a few minor problems with it.

The first problem I had is that I had to change the bearings at about 150000 miles, which came out to be about 1000 bucks.

The second problem I had is that the muffler fell off at 160000 miles. it cost me about 300 bucks to fix it, but it fell off because it rusted through.

The car leaks oil a little bit, but I haven't had to fill it up with oil between oil changes.

Also the power antenna does not come up anymore, but that does not really bother me nor I listen to the radio. That's all of the problems that I could think of.

General Comments:

Mazda 626 has a very good mileage about 30 miles highway and 25 in city. (Stick, 4 cylinder).

Very comfortable and feature rich interior.

Every thing still works, and very cheap maintenance.

Faults:

The car started running ruff at 193000 miles.

The car stop running at 193000 miles.

General Comments:

I bought the car for 100$. I put a battery in and drove the car for 4 days. Then the car started running ruff. After all that the car died. I have replaced the injectors, plugs, and distributor and still can't get the car to run.

Faults:

Transmission failed at 74,000 miles, luckily we had purchased the extended warranty, but the Mazda dealer would not honor the warranty. We had to take the car to a transmission shop. The transmission guy said that the transmission is actually built by Ford.

The motor mounts were replaced at 90,000. The front tires wear out quickly, 30,000 miles. The engine idles roughly.

General Comments:

We will never buy another Mazda. We had a similar problems with Chysler products, and will never buy another Chrysler...