I Have now ordered a CX3 Sports Nav Petrol Auto in Black. After much deliberating. I have owned a Qashqai Tekna awd 2.0 diesel auto for 8 years with trouble free motoring.Waited for HRV to come out before making a decision. I drove the CX3 in the morning and the HRV in the afternoon. In my opinion the CX3 had a better auto gearbox than the HRV's CVT gearbox,which I felt was slow to pick up speed.The CX3 had a softer comfortable ride with no crashing over speed humps
After reading some of the posts on this forum, I have this niggling thought in the back of my mind "have I done the right thing".I have never owned a Mazda before and from what I have seen so far the build quality does seem good.Time will only tell
Made up my mind at last!!
Welcome to the ever growing club.
I'm sure you've done the right thing. We're all a bit nervous about this brand new model but I suppose all models were new at one stage.
I'm happy to report zero defects and like you, I love the auto box.
I'm sure you've done the right thing. We're all a bit nervous about this brand new model but I suppose all models were new at one stage.
I'm happy to report zero defects and like you, I love the auto box.
CX-5 Sportnav diesel auto. AWD
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alanandlyn
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Hi welcome, I'm in exactly the same position - 4 weeks in and the car is great so far. I have some friends that have had new and 2nd hand Mazdas for years and they really rate them, so that helped to swing me.p6nsh wrote:After reading some of the posts on this forum, I have this niggling thought in the back of my mind "have I done the right thing".I have never owned a Mazda before and from what I have seen so far the build quality does seem good.Time will only tell
CX-3 SportNav 2WD, Petrol Auto, Ceramic, Stone Leather 
Spoke too soon. Within half an hour of posting, the entire audio system sound went off. I called at the dealer on the way home and the blasted thing worked! Don’t know if he pulled the SD card which I should have done but forgot about???
I have to say that they restored my faith by the prompt service and attention.
MZD Connect system to be monitored!
I have to say that they restored my faith by the prompt service and attention.
MZD Connect system to be monitored!
CX-5 Sportnav diesel auto. AWD
My Sat nav would constantly turn off then reboot automatically, until i updated it. Sounds a bit more serious if the whole system failed which is not encouraginganchorman wrote:Spoke too soon. Within half an hour of posting, the entire audio system sound went off. I called at the dealer on the way home and the blasted thing worked! Don’t know if he pulled the SD card which I should have done but forgot about???
I have to say that they restored my faith by the prompt service and attention.
MZD Connect system to be monitored!
CX 3 Sports Nav Diesel Auto AWD Ceramic
The satnav and the phone kit worked fine. They said it does need the newer firmware but it could take 2 hours to do.Lordy1 wrote:My Sat nav would constantly turn off then reboot automatically, until i updated it. Sounds a bit more serious if the whole system failed which is not encouraginganchorman wrote:Spoke too soon. Within half an hour of posting, the entire audio system sound went off. I called at the dealer on the way home and the blasted thing worked! Don’t know if he pulled the SD card which I should have done but forgot about???
I have to say that they restored my faith by the prompt service and attention.
MZD Connect system to be monitored!
CX-5 Sportnav diesel auto. AWD
I'm confused about the firmware, is it only available to the dealers or is it possible to download ourselves?
CX-3, Sport Nav, Auto, Petrol, Soul Red Metallic, Half Stone Leather, Sep 2015 to Sep 2018.
CX-5, Sport Nav+, Auto, Petrol, Soul Red Crystal Metallic, Sep 2018.
CX-5, Sport Nav+, Auto, Petrol, Soul Red Crystal Metallic, Sep 2018.
Not impossible but you have to register with Mazda Tech Europe and follow this procedure;
BM MZD Updated Software release for MZD Connect.pdf- (2.43 MiB) Downloaded 1857 times
CX-5 Sportnav diesel auto. AWD
Can anyone register for this? And if so where? Have found unofficial versions posted on another forum for the EU but am a bit reluctant to trust them.anchorman wrote:Not impossible but you have to register with Mazda Tech Europe and follow this procedure;
Would like to update ours as one very annoying issue is the audio forgetting where it was on the USB stick most of the time when returning to the car, it just then starts from the very first track in the first folder which is a bit tedious. Have also noticed that options in the USB menu such as playlists are greyed out for a while sometimes before becoming available a bit later.
CX-3 Sport Nav Petrol 2.0 in Soul Red
