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730 messages, Last post on May 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM
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| Congrats! I like to test drive the one I'm going to buy and going to drive daily instead the demo. | |
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Just put a deposit down yesterday and there was no talk with the salesperson about undercoating/rust protection? A few questions. Does anyone know the cost that Mazda and Ziebart charge to do each of these? I live in the Vancouver area. Are both of these highly recommended to do with a new car? If I were to do only one or the other, which is more important? Thanks! |
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| Consumer Report does not recommend them. This just help dealer to make more money. Car manufacturers have standard rust-through warranty. | |
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Mazda does have a rustproofing package/insurance. Not sure how good it is but it sounded good but I did not get it. Basically it's supposed to be a new way of providing rust protection. This protection must be inspected every two years. If somehow the car still ends up getting rust, the insurance will pay for the value of the car. Not sure how it will really qualify for insurance but I'm sure there's a lot of small print. The cost for this is $695. |
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There is a good article about rust proofing in Canada where we have to deal with high salt environment: http://www.apa.ca/template.asp?DocID=11 |
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Other than the models and equipment being a little different, there's not that much specific to Canada about the Mazda3. You think we don't have salt on the roas here in the US? Maybe there should be a "Mazda3 USA" topic. |
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The original post asked about undercoating/rust proofing and the costs of this in the Vancouver area. Is your point that I should not have posted this in the Canada area, or there should be no Canada area? |
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I think having such specific topics in the Mazda3 boards is not necessary. Or maybe we should have a topic for "Mazda3 undercoating/rust proofing and the costs of this in the Vancouver area". Seriously though, in answer to your question, no, I don't think there should be a separate "Mazda3 Canada" topic. I just don't see that there is that much unique to the Mazda3 (or buying it) in Canada to warrant this. Sure, the models and prices are slightly different (isn't that something we are talking about?), and Canadians are probably interested in undercoating than somebody in Arizona (but not Minnesota, New York, etc.), but I think it's counter-productive overall. Otherwise you could argue for a separate topic just for those people that live in hot, humid areas (i.e. Houston or Miami) and are having problems with their AC. Just my $.02 (or maybe $.03 in Canada) |
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As I said, did not mean to step on anyone's toes but with quite a few of us Canadians on this board felt that we could discuss some of our issues in a familiar environment. Rather then sifting through a lot of messages to find something pertaining to Canadians (ie, we don't have navigation systems, we don't have models "i" and "s", cdn currency, etc). I remember reading a few posts where our American couterpart keeps thinking we're paying too much for our cars. Anyways, sorry again, did not mean to snub you. |
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Although I've seen a number of posts about CDN pricing, I haven't seen any posts about people leasing a Mazda 3 in the Montreal area and what type of lease payments they're getting. I've managed to negotiate a local dealer down to $345/month (taxes in) for a Mazda 3 GT with GFX (basically everything except leather)no money down, but a $4000 multiple Security deposit, bringing the lease rate down to 4.4%. Any feedback appreciated.
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