u/GaslighteningMcQueen

Big City™️ driving shenanigans, other admitted fault to police. Everyone walked away safe and healthy, the cars did their job.

Our 2017 CX-5 was accident free and reliable as all for its first 97k miles of its life (41k in the last 2 years with us as the second owners).

Two separate accidents to the drivers side front in the last six months, both not at our fault and both deemed unavoidable. Both times the car did its job and my wife walked away safe and I am thankful.

First accident in first 3 photos. Second accident in the last two.

First one I had no issue with fixing as it mostly looked cosmetic. This second one does look more structural and the accident has caused some sort of electrical issue causing a low fuel pressure code and engine stall, along with transmission and airbag codes. I’m thinking CPU got jostled or potentially wiring harness

I’m thinking with age/mileage plus the potential for structural and wire harness issues, this might be a write off this time. Although I don’t want to lose the car, I am also now concerned about front impact safety with a second driver side impact.

I’ve had a lot of cars in my life, so I didn’t love this CX-5 as much as other cars - but this car was the first car my wife actually loved. She’s gutted over the idea that this car is either totaled or potentially fixed but compromised in safety. It was her first car she didn’t worry about, but instead enjoyed.

Idk what I’m getting at. As someone who has owned 5 other Mazdas and am a lifelong fan of them, I’m sad that car might die. My wife has ever only had 1 car (2001 corolla) that died 10yrs ago, we live in a major city so she never replaced it and made it work.

I got this car so we can both drive it and the dog doesn’t get anxiety from my hooligan modifications (last car was a mazdaspeed3 that she did NOT like driving), but it really became her car and it was her first “real” car. She is gutted.

(Potentially) RIP big bleu cheese