3 REASONS Why I Own My Mazda 3 SIX YEARS Later

[@bricegraham8256]

Your Mazda 3 is really cool. And the fact that you owned yours as long as I have owned mine is actually really inspiring. Everytime I drive my Mazda 3 I have to say as a daily it's very fun to drive, it always brings a smile to my face when I get inside. Your right, not like a Toyota or a Honda, those feel pretty boring from the interior design to the way they drive. Whenever I get in one of those they just don't feel right to me, but when I get in my Mazda 3, everything feels right. Whenever she gets me to my destination amd if I have a lil fun along the way I know everything is gonna be alright. Sorry I made two really long comments. I just loved this video like a lot.

[@ColtonRichter]

Cheers mate, I think it's the driver focus Mazda constructs that let us enjoy these no matter what!

[@stitesstephen]

Exactly the same reasons I still love my 2004 3i sedan! 350,000 miles and it's never let me down. I'll be sad if I ever have to let it go.

[@ColtonRichter]

Heartbroken, to say the least

[@volt_nightroleplayminecraf6998]

267k on the clock will replace the engine if I have to I love this car!

[@ReubenBibera]

My Mazda 3 was is the first car I ever bought brand new. It's been so good to me, anything that I have ever needed to fix was because of my mistake or lack of maintenance. If I was to win the lottery today, I would totally recondition everything and totally turn it into a show car. My M3 is here to stay!!

[@jayespi37]

Rock on🙌

[@stitesstephen]

I feel the same way!

[@ColtonRichter]

Mazda 3 love! 💙

[@adnanalamri7978]

Still have mazda 3 since 2007🫡

[@ColtonRichter]

Crazy!

[@calstri]

My dad passed his 07’ down to me as my first car. I’m in it with you!

[@MASQUERADE7]

Have mine since 09

[@ColtonRichter]

Respect

[@brano2yt]

I have mine for over 10 years, BK hatchback, very reliable, not fast but fun, good daily, knowing it under the hood after the years. The fun fact is, two coleagues separately mentioned, they had mazda3 1gen and was very good if not best car they owned. They moved to bigger because of family. So that emotional attachment is real and i know i will miss it one day. My first car also.

[@ColtonRichter]

Wow that`s incredible!

[@davidlabelle4927]

I bought a Mazda 323LX in 1990 and I have owned a protege or 323 of the same gen since. 1.8L. I plan to own them forever. A 323 with a protege motor is so much fun and fast. It does over 195 km/h. I have three 323's and four proteges.

[@ColtonRichter]

Miss my 323!

[@nathaliebrinkman4607]

The 2005 Mazda 3 sedan 2.0l is my first car. I've owned her since september 2022 as a beaten up export car. Her motor was good but needed the yearly checkup. Its mostly exterior work. Done her yearly maintainence and she is eager to go. I find her so much fun to drive. Mine isnt slow at all. I used to take driving lessons in a Mini turbo diesel and I must say that my M3 is faster and more responsive on the gaspedal. I hope to own her for a long time to come, as long as I can get her exterior back in full glory cause these M3's sure do love to rust 🙈

[@peterjohnson9438]

As for what makes me keep my Mazda 3? It's been quite reliable, it's pretty economical, and it's fun around the corners (after I swapped wider wheels and a Bilstein suspension kit on it). Not the sexiest car, but it gets me where I need to go.

[@FFGamer077]

Had my Mazda 3 2008 2.0 Sedan AT since Nov 2017 and it's been my first. Got it at 131K and it's at 164K currently after 5ish years. I can honestly say after 2 accidents that it had, being told it was a right off, and it STILL lives after being fixed, my girls a survivor and have more of a attachment then ever. So I want to hold onto it for as long as possible too. Have plans to change and personalize stuff this summer. Only issue I have right now is I'm bored, I've yet to own a single other car. When I do tho, I rather keep the Mazda for work commutes and maybe long drives.

[@bricegraham8256]

The story with your is very similar to the story with mine. I too wrecked mine twice. The first time I was at fault, the second time they were at fault and they to deemed it a total loss and they did give me a check to get it fixed which payed for half the bill lol. I have had mine since 2018 and has been amazing. Bought it at somewhere around 160,000 miles and she's now at 198,000 miles. She's in decent shape with some issues. But there small enough to where I'm in no rush to fix them. I wouldn't advise driving it on longer trips though. Its gets super uncomfortable to drive after awhile. The farthest I had to drive it was an hour away outta town late last year and my back was sore and my legs were sore too. Mind you I'm 23 lol.

[@FFGamer077]

@@bricegraham8256 I'm 32. So both accidents, car wasn't driving, was parked. Secondly I was NEVER present for any of them. The first one it was a legit accident on Dec 23rd 2020. Lady driving from work to home and her Tie Rod snapped and my rear end got slammed on driver side, couldn't drive it without it rubbing. 2nd one happened at my mechanics shop were he directed a customer out of a docking bay and she swiped the other side and had almost $5K in damages. 1st one only got saved because my guy had felt bad and knew someone who could do repairs for cheap. So far I've driven 3 hours away before, but yes it can get uncomfortable but I take bathroom stops now and then to stretch my legs lol. I also got some rust I need to tackle due to when I was first jacking up the car I never used wooden blocks......yea.

[@DrivingProduction]

That's awesome! I wish I would of found the Mazda 3 platform as my first car and appreciated it back then! They're such fun cars, I got rid of my 335i because I liked driving my Mazda 3 more. . . And it wouldn't break everytime I looked at it 😅

[@ColtonRichter]

Man, you even had a dorito before the 3 haha

[@dmjjackson]

While it’s not my first, second, or even third car, my 2008 Mazda3 GX sedan is the first car I bought new a few months prior to graduating college. I still have it, and because I live in Nova Scotia, it spend almost half the year in the garage. It served me so well that my current winter car is a 2016 Mazda3 GS hatchback. While the newer one has more and nicer features, it still hasn’t created the same attachment as the first one. Part of that may be the time and effort I put into personalizing my 2008.

[@ColtonRichter]

Well said mate!

[@jessegalan8551]

2008 mazda 3i here 👍🏽 manual forever

[@ColtonRichter]

Manual liiiiiife

[@leighanneh3559]

ive had mine for 3 years can't wait for many more

[@jameshin01]

love your videos man. Mazda 3 is also my 1st car and I relate to the emotional attachment. its kinda like 1 of my children actually. keep posting videos Man. always watching.

[@ColtonRichter]

Cheers!

[@samwrld]

I own a 06 mazda 3 w a rebuilt engine and a cold air intake and it’s pretty damn quick it’s my first car and i love it

[@ColtonRichter]

Nice!

[@se7ensamurai]

Definitely not my first car, but I've had my Mazda3 I 5 speed, since I bought new in 07. Still gets great mileage most of the time 😂. Need to replace the seats though. Still love it. Planning on giving it to my daughter when she learns to drive in a couple years. (My first... 5 ish... cars didn't last long and we're heaps, so yeah.)

[@peterjohnson9438]

Colton.. Get yourself a Hyundai Tiburon / Coupe (GK), 2.7 liter. Front wheel drive, cheap, torquey, sounds awesome once you replace the resonator and mufflers. Decent project car. Not sure if it could be called reliable, but it's fun to wrench on.

[@scxrmx]

Still have my 2006 Mazda 3

[@bricegraham8256]

Mine has been reliable for the most part. Mine however has only left me stranded once. But luckily it left me stranded at the shop I work at. It left me stranded because I had to change out the intake manifold because the old one had a broken chunk in it so it was running super lean to the point of it stalling if I didn't two pedal it at lights. Once I changed it out, I started it up and it was running great but then it started pissing oil out of the oil filter cap. I used the company vehicle to go home cause I had an extra oil filter cap but once I got back to the shop and tried to put it on, it was the wrong one. So my boss had to take me home cause AutoZone didn't have it in stock. So I ordered it the day I had to do my shift at AutoZone, got it noon time on Monday, topped it off with oil, started it up and she ran like a champ. I had to change out the intake manifold runner solinoids cause they went bad and it's been running so much better since I changed those out. The only gripe I have is the the check engine light likes to be intermittent. Sometimes it's on, sometimes it's off, and the code is P2004 Intake manifold runner stuck open bank 1. I don't worry about though cause it usually goes back off at random. It's been wrecked twice by my dumbass sadly and it's on a rebuilt transmission and original engine the 2.3. I love her. I've been contemplating selling it and replacing it with an ND Miata cause I've always wanted those. I do also plan on daily an 06 Town and Country and parking my Mazda 3 to fix all of its smaller problems. But any other time she's given me problems, she's never left me stranded. Even when the transmission decided to take a shitter it still got me home from the other side of town. So all in all I love it. What I don't love is hunting for transmission cooler hoses. Or other parts for it for that matter cause their either never in stock, we don't carry it or I have to order it.

[@gailliardander]

Same I’m on my 4th one all 2008-10 I don’t see myself ever getting rid of it simply because there is no better all around for what it is these things are driver focused.

[@ColtonRichter]

The attention to driver`s focus is unbeatable, that`s for sure.

[@gilts5978]

My first car was a red 2005 mazda 6 that I got in highschool n loved it… ran amazing for 3 years until I got t-boned & the car was totaled. Fast forward 3 more years and I’ve owned the most reliable and fun to drive mazda I’ve had the 2013 SkyActiv 3 w speed3 rims. Still miss the 6 too this day tho 🥹

[@ColtonRichter]

Gone too soon :(

[@knightcrawler9734]

Looking at a 2013 one. I love it even tho the ac needs to be fixed and bumper has the scars of a minor parking lot fender bender. Overall the interior is in pretty decent condition especially in the front, the back of the front passenger seat has a little hole and the pocket is ripped. I plan to take a look at 3-4 other mazda 3's and then i'll decide but so far this is by far my favorite. It has 70k miles, led lights, and touch radio, a small spoiler, blue interior lights, everything else stock. Price after repairs would be around 5500-5800 USD. Would you recommend it?

[@NicoAG_]

Let us keep our Mazda 3 together, it is for keeps, mine is already 9 years with me.

[@ColtonRichter]

Wow!

[@NicoAG_]

@ColtonRichter my first car is a Mazda 626 and both are second hand, having a taste of that Mazda magic makes you become a lover forever. That 626 eventually died down on me and was not able to restore it, so I simply let it go.

[@redroseandre5225]

Still have mine for 4 years first car I ever bought and made it into the car I love today I dread the day I gotta sell it

[@ColtonRichter]

Hope that day isn`t too soon!

[@lifesjustfine]

Any good resources/communities for these older mazdas? Im just starting to get into cars hahaha. This video just inspired to me to work on my 2008 soon

[@ColtonRichter]

me

[@damonconway9735]

I got my parents hand me down 2008 mazda 3 maxx sport and I love the thing to pieces, got coilovers for it but haven’t had time to put them on, and if I can ask for advice, my engine light has come on for a O2 sensor error apparently to the mechanic, is it worth fixing or just delete the code?

[@ColtonRichter]

Code will keep returning, easy fix.

[@maverickciao]

Oh wow! You get 550km on 1 tank? I only get 450km. I recently got new brakes pad and rotors, am KM seemed to get up 490. Also got new 4 tires , which seems to help and increase km

[@nathaliebrinkman4607]

I'm getting around 600km on 1 tank from my M3 2005 2.0l sedan. You just gotta know when to drive economical. Like dont step on the brakes a lot but rather let her roll without foot on the gas when you get near trafficlights n turns. Anticipate on other cars, try to look ahead so you know whether or not to step the brake. Also, use the good gas. Do your yearly maintainence and stay on top of it. Futher more, treat the M3 kindly....

[@maverickciao]

@@nathaliebrinkman4607 Oh wow! 600km is very nice 👍 Glad to hear that 2.0i capable of that.

[@nathaliebrinkman4607]

@@maverickciao They are, but you gotta drive smart tho. Sometimes I have to be a B cause some kid in a "sporty" car wants to race me, that will burn gas. 😂😂 But if I can "kill" his ego with it, I will....

[@toast_malone-bg6552]

Yo where did you get those headlights? Also I really love my 2008 Mazda 3 2.0L

[@ColtonRichter]

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[@Abandonedadelaide]

My 2008 mazda 3 neo hatch has only ever let me down once with a dead fuel pump , but a knock with a hammer gently through the tank was enough to get it home and repair lol mines got corksport engine and gearbox mounts V1 BC coilovers with adjustable caber tops 27mm rear whiteline sway bar and adjustable end links Kenda KR20A street legal semislicks front and back and all front and rear control arms and joints and bushes having been replaced also had to repair rear trailing arm bushings (pressed) just installed a face lift im unsure what model and sideskirts. and i am still trying to make my own short ram intake because i dont wanna spend $400 online lol from america to australia I got the car for $2500 from the auctions . ive done about 70k km in the time i have owned it

[@ColtonRichter]

Sounds like a blast!

[@mljkvc]

still have my

[@ColtonRichter]

They still truckin'

[@sl0w6.s28]

I still miss my shitbox s10 , loving my 6s as much as I want something else I can't bring myself to let it go

[@ColtonRichter]

It`s a tough decision to make

[@uuuuuudinamo]

Hi! I have one mazda 3 bk 09, first car, wouldn't sell it for the world, and I struggle with some rust. How can I deal with it? Thanks for eventual answer

[@ColtonRichter]

Cut out whatever rust and fiberglass it!

[@uuuuuudinamo]

@@ColtonRichter And if it is getting out from inside? A painter said he could help me with some cavity wax. Until now, he didn't gave me any signs of distrust, but you also worked with this type of car a lot.

[@MZRFaith]

I would have had my first car still, but I made a few mistakes and lost my license and my insurance rates are out of my price range. Basically have been outclassed from driving… honestly can’t enjoy car content anymore, my mazdaspeed3 has sat for two years in the garage without me driving it🙃.

[@MZRFaith]

I’m happy for your though homie, I’ll try to keep you in my rotation as a reminder I’m not forever doomed and can enjoy Mazdas again one day.

[@ColtonRichter]

Stepping away from things never hurts!

[@jillianalden8040]

I still have my 06 mazda. Only thing is the head lights have yellowed with the sun. Any tips as to fix this....

[@Thatmz3]

Restoration kits at Canadien tire are perfect and if you want it better for cheap is to spray some wd40 on a paper towel and wipe it

[@levi___steel]

I regret selling 2007 2.0 Mazda 3 hatch but it burned oil and I needed to get rid of it

[@ColtonRichter]

Sounded like a lemon 2.0

[@Lava-33]

Most of them this generation do, these cars are getting old now there's a lot of minor reasons they can be burning abit of oil. I just sold mine due to rust burnt a tiny bit of oil since the day I owned it 250 000km, sold it well over 300 000km few years later. Depending on how much oil it's actually burning it could be something as simple as the gaskets in the valve cover. Most of these cars 2.0L burn oil sometimes it's so little it's not even noticeable in-between oil changes. If you got one of these n it's close to 300 000km it probably burns abit of oil.

[@brettlansford9856]

If your 2.0 burns oil yikes 😂 love it

[@ColtonRichter]

Speaking facts

[@resignator]

I cant imagine selling my speed 3. It'd be like selling my son.

[@ColtonRichter]

😂

[@НадяГенева]

Mazda 3 2004 1.6i here 🫡 can anyone suggest customizations for this model i will be really happy

[@ColtonRichter]

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[@НадяГенева]

​@@ColtonRichterThank you soo much 🤙

[@_dondie_]

Yours was well maintained 💯 and looking good, I envy that 🥲 I got the same reason as regards emotional attachment even if I got tempted many times to sell mine 😢

[@ColtonRichter]

Appreciate you homie! 🤘