Buying a used car is always a gamble, but for one Mazda CX-5 owner, a faint noise heard days after purchase quickly spiraled into a potential five-figure nightmare, and a crash course in how unforgiving “as-is” sales can be.
In a Reddit post, the man said he purchased a 2020 Mazda CX-5 with 101,000 miles from a franchised car dealership just two weekends earlier. According to the post, the dealer touted a 120-point inspection and said all fluids had been changed. Because of medical reasons, the buyer didn’t test-drive the SUV himself. His spouse did instead, and nothing seemed amiss at the time. That changed once he got behind the wheel.
