so far, no major complaints for me on the car la. just the noise issue only, side mirror folding sound is abit loud and the car sound proof is not so good. will abit noisy when u go for high speed, especially the sound from tayar. but anyhow it still acceptable by me because normally i will turn on the music loud.

Beside, another thing that i m not very like is my car don hv the central lock. everytime i need to lock n unlock the door myself. my spec is CBU not sure the CKD have the same prob anot. but this thing u can fix it later on also if u really need the central lock. extra RM 500++ for the fixing.

N also the GPS navigator, it's response is too slow. the cpu processor is slow, i not sure is my device like tis or is normal.

Beside all these, this car is great. I like the feeling of driving, handling is super nice, n i dont feel it is underpower. mayb because I m drivng 2.0.

Btw jz have a drive to genting last week, is superb !!!! Zoom...... Zoom..... kill a lot of car the day !!! hoho....

how much you topup for the GPS Navi or it is standard for 2.0 model?

cool....

but i read resale value for Jap cars are:

T>H>N>Mazda!

is this true?

for the GPS is worth for RM 3500, but i guess now is come as free gift for 2.0 model.

i guess for the resale value, this is the trend for now la. Toyota & Honda still leading. but not sure in the future, since there is more n more Mazda, KIA or even continental car on the road. there might hv changes in future ? who knows ?

but if u not planning to change car in 5 year, i think resale value doesnt impact you much la. is depend on you

Well, i have finally reached my 1K mark and sent my M3 for its first service and also to have the SA look at that annoying knocking noise. The service part only took around 1/2 hr to complete. I sat in the car with the SA during the test drive and he confirmed the sound. I also played a recording of the irritating noise and he looked very surprised. They checked and tightened the under carriage bolts linkages but the sound was still there when we went for the second test drive. About 3 hrs later, the SA told me that they will not take apart the parts because it is a new car. Instead, they will email/log a case with BERMAZ and have their team (a two man team who visits Mazda service centre nationwide) come over to check the problem.
I was told to take my car back first and wait for their call once they confirm the appointment with the Bermaz guys. I will be required to leave my car with them for 2 days then. I wonder when will that be? He told me usually in within 1 to 2 months. I was like.... !
Somehow, I have a feeling that this is going to drag on for ages and I hope they can prove me wrong. They even remarked that I might need to drive down to KL directly to visit BERMAZ service centre to have the issue solved. I am a bit disappointed that they were not able to rectify the problem.
Is this how all Mazda service centres do service? Wait for the guys at BERMAZ to come?

how serious is this knocking sound?

it's in all models? sedan 2.0?

how la bros....

Mine is a Sedan 2.0.

Below is a recording of the sound:
http://www.webfilehost.com/?mode=viewupload&id=8043533

Lucky mine (HB 2.0) have no this issue. Yours is CKD or CBU ?

CKD. Yours CBU?

This post has been edited by DataWraith: Feb 2 2012, 02:59 PM

but bro? its on a car to car basis or how? how old is ur car?

Hope Bermaz will able to fix the knocking problem. Luckily the car comes with 3 years warranty.

ya mine is CBU. mayb that bring the diff. Msia product really...... haih

3 years or 60,000 whichever comes first... more often than not it will not even reach that 3 years.. they should be offering 3yrs or 100km.

i have been told is 3 years or 60k km or 7 times

that mean u cannot simply send ur car to service. haha

but when i test drove a 2.0 recently, there dont seemed to be this knocking sound...

I guess I am the lucky one The demo unit which I drove before I got mine did not have this problem. So, its a random but I read from other forums that it's a known issue. Haih....maybe really got to do with CKD. That's what the SA told me also.
Besides the issue I am facing, the car drives gr8. I will be calling them again if they did not get back to me with an appointment date by nxt Monday.

when did this started bro? like when u get the car? or after a few months or so?

I got the car at BERMAZ Glenmarie but I am from outstation. I had already took leave to collect the car. In the process of collection, the sales man explained the features of this car and we headed to the nearest gas station to top up fuel. During this whole time, there wasn't any annoying knocking sound. After leaving Glenmarie, I headed to 1U to have lunch before departing for my hometown in my shiny new M3...still no knocking. The knocking started once I enter the highway later that day. Can't u-turn and it was already almost evening. In short, the knocking started the day I collected the car. I have tolerated the noise for 3 weeks.

So, you can imagine what a let down it was today after visiting the service centre

This post has been edited by DataWraith: Feb 2 2012, 04:31 PM

Agree. I traveled a lot everyday due to the nature of my work. My previous car clocked about 30,000km++ in a year.

Hey DataWraith,

Where are you from? Not from KL? So those Bermaz guys doesn't want to come to your area to fix it?
Bad service....