We’ve been driving our new ride for almost a month now, and not surprisingly, we’ve learned to live with some of the little issues that we found annoying earlier on – and a couple other things that we didn’t notice earlier on are now only surfacing! In no particular order:
Auto-sensing screen wipers: seem quite intelligent… but only when the sensors are actually working! We noticed on a couple of occasions that the sensors didn’t detect a downpour, requiring us to toggle the auto screen wipers back to manual on/off. Weird
Proximity auto-locking: same thing too. Most occasions the car’s auto-locking will kick in, sometimes so promptly when we’re just a meter away from the car. But like the screen wipers, the sensing seems temperamental, so much so that we’ve decided not to rely on proximity auto-locking and now manually just lock the car doors when we’re out of the vehicle. The auto-retracing side-view mirrors remain very useful though – they serve as an immediate visual indicator that the car is indeed secure. We lost count of the times we asked each other “Dear, did you lock the car…?”
Active Driving Display: still super useful!
MP3s off the flashdrive: still working well enough, though the player funnily resets the playlist occasionally without us knowing why.
iStop: something we thought would be really annoying – but we’ve learned to live with it. The jolt the car experiences when it quick-starts the engine when we’re driving off from stoppage can still be felt, but it’s like the car mildly sneezing. Cute even LOL.
Car all-round visibility: still trying to get used to it! Still making us a little nervous that we’re giving our left wheels sufficient clearance.
Funnily too, we’re barely reaching the reported fuel consumption that other Mazda 3 users are getting. We’re getting about 9.3 liters/100km mileage while other drivers are expending 8 liters for the same distance. Might be to do with our driving styles, or that the roads we drive on to/fro work and home aren’t expressways.
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