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:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
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…?”<\/p>\n
Active Driving Display: still super useful!<\/p>\n
MP3s off the flashdrive: still working well enough, though the player funnily resets the playlist occasionally without us knowing why.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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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<\/p>\n