Mazda Owners thread

[Poi E]

This thread is useless without pics!

 

[Lazy Llama]

Got my V5C. So that took, 4 working days!

Damn, I'm going to have to chase them up now

 

[Lazy Llama]

Mine outside the dealer

 

[pseudonarcissus]

This thread is useless without pics!

 

[cybershot]

Need to get some new mats, she obviously drove with heels on!

Also had to phone the main dealer today to get the bloody colour code, as it's not on the driver side door jamb or near the firewall under the hood as it's supposed to be. VIN sticker is on the door jamb but clearly doesn't list the colour code. Just want to touch up some stone chips!

 

[hash tag]

She has been left standing for a week, so needed a wipe down. Inside all the door frames was far from clean

 

[alsoknownas]

I heard Barkley bought a Mazda for a stripper,
Yo, what a shitty tipper,
That's where we differ.

Action Bronson

 

[Lazy Llama]

Need to get some new mats, she obviously drove with heels on!

I had to get new mats, the previous owner presumably kept the old ones for her new Mazda 3.
Got these ones from Amazon which fit very nicely - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01AYDBDJE
Also bought a boot mat: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HN9A754/ which keeps the worst of the dog sick off the car

 

[Poi E]

Well built cars those new Mazdas ( well the ones made in Hofu.)

 

[hash tag]

Mazda owners of Urban unite
I still can't quite believe this thread...even worse, I'm part of it

 

[cybershot]

Did the firmware update to 59.00.449 this morning (last European version before they blocked it) and it was quite easy. Just time consuming. I'd give yourself 2 hours from prepping the USB to it finishing. Followed the video in the Mazda3Revolution thread and it was all pretty straight forward.

It seemed to fix the not connecting to my iPhone's mobile hotspot problem. Although I have no idea why I'd ever do it.

I then installed the tweak to allow further tweaks installations if I choose to update the FW higher, and then installed some mods. The speedo is ok, and turning off the beeps and warning screen was useful, I also installed Android Auto for the hell of it, but obviously cannot use it being an iPhone user.

Despite doing all the above, because I'm a bit geeky, I'd probably say it's not actually worth bothering with, unless you have a bug that's annoying you in the Infotainment system, or have an Android and want Android Auto. I might order a cheap handset of Amazon tonight to arrive tomorrow and have a play, and just send the phone back under distance selling regs or whatever it's called these days. Or if it's cool, I'll keep it.

 

[cybershot]

Oh while I'm here, does everyone else's coolant low temperature blue light come on every start up? I'm reading it's pretty normal, but even yesterday after leaving the car for just 4 hours it still came on, and with the temperatures as they are the moment, this surprises me. I read the light goes off when it reaches 55c and that you shouldn't over work the engine until it goes off, fair enough. However I also read the heating system doesn't work properly until the blue light goes off. Winter could be interesting!!

 

[hash tag]

I haven't worked these thinks out yet, but, I would always keep an engine below 2000 revs until it's properly warmed up.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Yeah I have the blue light on when it starts but figured it wasn’t anything to worry about as it always goes off pretty quickly.

I’ve had to re-calibrate the Tyre pressure thing too, but the salesman told me about that.

 

[cybershot]

OK. Android Auto is pretty cool. Also quite impressed with the £50 Android I got, which isn't too slow and just about has enough space for my music apps. Tethered off my iPhone so only downside is I lose bluetooth calls from my iPhone, and frankly. I hate talking and driving anyway! Will only use this when I don't actually know where I'm going, so won't get that much use but is nice to have and much better than the stock sat nav!

 

[Lazy Llama]

Was going to ask which phone you went for and then saw your post on the Recommend me a new(cheapish) mobile phone - Android thread.

 

[19sixtysix]

I used to have a mazda

 

[Poi E]

Groovy cars the 1800 turbo 4x4s. Frightening, really.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Mazda have announced that the CarPlay and Android Auto upgrade will be available from 6th August
Mazda Adds Smartphone Control to MZD Connect

Elsewhere I've seen that it'll be "220 EUR for older/already sold cars, but excluding installation, because every dealer has their own prices per hour for installation".

 

[cybershot]

Cool. Might make that a Christmas present.

 

[cybershot]

 

[Lazy Llama]

I think I'll try doing it myself.
The parts are about $130 from China, and don't look too difficult to install. Just need the firmware to be released.

 

[cybershot]

I think I'll try doing it myself.
The parts are about $130 from China, and don't look too difficult to install. Just need the firmware to be released.

If you manage to do it, I'll happily pay you to do mine rather than the dealer!

 

[Lazy Llama]

I went in to my local D(st)ealer in the UK to ask about the forthcoming CP/AA upgrade, To my complete surprise he was fully aware of it and even told me that all dealerships had training(in the UK) last week!!

However then we came to the price!

The price they were given was between 300 and 485 EXCL fitting

https://mazda3revolution.com/forums...gust-6-mazda-press-release-3.html#post2395375

Britain getting ripped off again - €220 -> £300+

 

[cybershot]

Fuck that. I'll stick with my Android Auto hack, and wait for a Lazy Llama installation price!

 

[Lazy Llama]

I've order the bits from TaoBao via tbfocus.com which works as an English-speaking intermediary.
Will let you know how I get on when the parts finally arrive.

From what I've seen the CX-n and Mazda 3 parts are the same:
马自达原厂carplay昂克赛拉阿特兹cx4cx5USB接口手机互联同屏接口-淘宝网
马自达昂克赛拉CX-5阿特兹CX-4新款原厂USB连接线-淘宝网

Fingers crossed that the firmware upgrade is much the same as earlier ones.

 

[Lazy Llama]

The parts have arrived, extremely well packed and delivered with no duty to pay. Remarkably quick and great service. They sent photos of the items when they arrived from the supplier so that I could check them, they optionally remove any unnecessary packaging and then send the stuff on.
$165 all in which is about £125.

I may hold off installing them until the firmware is available.

 

[Lazy Llama]

EU Firmware is now available - MEGA
UK price for the upgrade has been announced as £350 Mazda rolls out Apple CarPlay upgrade

I'll watch the forums a bit this weekend and see how people get on and maybe try mine. Hot weather is always a good time to be struggling with bits of car

 

[cybershot]

EU Firmware is now available - MEGA
UK price for the upgrade has been announced as £350 Mazda rolls out Apple CarPlay upgrade

I'll watch the forums a bit this weekend and see how people get on and maybe try mine. Hot weather is always a good time to be struggling with bits of car

Installing my dashcam in the heat was a ballache.

Thanks for the updates. The £350 is possibly something I'd consider paying to get done by the dealer, but if it's simple enough I'm happy to have a go myself if there ends up being a youtube video or the like where i can follow exactly what someone else has done. I always worry I'm going to end up breaking plastic thou if internal interior pieces have to be prised out to get at cables! Or I'm happy to pay someone that's happy doing this sort of stuff for their time.

While I'm here. My i-stop seems to have randomly stopped working this week. The battery never glows when on the Fuel Economy Screen in the apps section, indicating the battery has obviously lost some charge. I've read some posts that this can be normal, but seems weird that it's dropped off now while constantly getting used every day, compared to it working straight away when I took it from the used car dealership, where it had for the most part been sat there doing nothing for a month and a half. I've read you can reset it without pissing about with battery wires so if it doesn't sort itself out after my next motorway run I'll try that.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Looks like there may already be a later version with the dealers in Germany, so I might wait a little.