Mazda CX-5 2012–2014 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 05-004-14-2867A · NHTSA communication 10098048 · issued Mar 19, 2014
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
2012–2014
model years
6
vehicle entries
Official summary
Some customers may complain of a whining noise from the automatic transaxle when driving at 10 mph and above. The noise: depends on the vehicle s speed only (the more speed, the more noise) occurs with all types of driving (acceleration, deceleration, steady speed) does not depend on rpm, gear, or atf temperature. This is caused by a damaged bearing in the transaxle due to improper configuration of the transaxle case. A modification has now been implemented on automatic transaxles with the serial number tr1111680 and higher or td1104906 and higher. The serial number can be found on top of the
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.