# Who is a good Mazda Mechanic to go to?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-a-good-mazda-mechanic-to-go-to/58912>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** mazda5, mazda\
**Created:** [December 19, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-a-good-mazda-mechanic-to-go-to/58912 "2010-12-19T18:43:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sdmustangrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@sdmustangrider](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sdmustangrider)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-a-good-mazda-mechanic-to-go-to/58912/1 "2010-12-19T18:43:31Z")

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Looking for a good shop other than the dealer, to take my Mazda5 to get worked on. I found the oil filter canister is stripped, so I couldn’t change my filter. It is designed weird where you need some hex wrench to unscrew the filter canister to replace the filter itself.

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**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/who-is-a-good-mazda-mechanic-to-go-to/58912/2 "2010-12-19T18:45:02Z")

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Look here:

> **[Mechanics Files](https://www.cartalk.com/mechanics-files)**
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