Changes You'd Like To See in the Mazda3

Replying to: ahightower (Dec 20, 2008 12:10 pm)

As for the "blinky-blinky" lights, those can be disabled in the audio system's menu.
 
Thanks, that's good to know.
 
Another thing that I'd like to see changed that I just encountered tonight on the way home from one of our local ski hills.
 
7) Apparently my Mazda3 doesn't have an instrument cluster light that indicates when the washer reservoir is low, and I ran out of washer fluid on a night when running out of fluid was a very bad idea. Annoying. Then I found out that unlike virtually every car I've had since the mid 1980s, the washer reservoir only holds three quarts (instead of five liters), so you cannot run it down to the warning light, dump in a gallon of fluid and be on your way. Annoying^2. To top off my washer reservoir rant, when I pulled the cap off to fill it, the cap came out with a long tube attached to it, and getting the tube to feed back down the filler neck when the time came to put the cap back on was a lesson in frustration. Annoying^3.
 
Best regards,
Shipo

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Replying to: shipo (Dec 21, 2008 1:53 pm)

Thanks for the advice on the light and the filler neck/tube. I'll look further into it.
 
The tube is Mazda's bargain-basement method to check the washer fluid level. You put your finger over the hole in the reservoir cap and then you remove the cap. Since your finger is over the hole in the cap the tube will show the fluid lever. Brilliant, no?
I can't wait to find an E46 330i ZHP or M3 ZCP...

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Replying to: roadburner (Dec 21, 2008 3:26 pm)

The tube is Mazda's bargain-basement method to check the washer fluid level. You put your finger over the hole in the reservoir cap and then you remove the cap. Since your finger is over the hole in the cap the tube will show the fluid lever. Brilliant, no?
 
Thanks! Oddly enough, even though I didn't know they did the tube thing on purpose, that's exactly how I checked my level earlier today.
 
Best regards,
Shipo

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Replying to: nsbio1 (Dec 22, 2008 4:05 pm)

Add the ability to open the trunk from the keyfob remote (if not already implemented in the 09 version. I have an 08 and the absence of this feature is annoying).
 
My 2009 has trunk poppage from the fob. I'm guessing that that will carry over to the new 2010s.
 
Best regards,
Shipo

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