Then can try ask at there also ma, can try pm nic goh in the group he's in PJ If I'm not mistaken

Haha... Relax relax, he not yet close shop I guess

see my signature

go find any Ultra Racing distributor they should be able to get the matching stabilizer for you

if you have joined the m3 group they have their recommended workshop to do that

if can put at the center console or driver side power window switch panel there i also want to install it lo, been waiting for the center lock thingy long time d

i know, but just dont feel comfortable using that switch

today went to the new sc in equine park to get them check on the lower arm bush, after a round of test drive they agreed to change it for me without any issues, gonna change it next friday

the technician spray some water to the lower arm and managed to reproduce the same sound

took my car to go hiking today, went up to 550m from sea level, that's the altitude displayed at the speedometer app, not sure correct or not


Mazda 3 by Kien Seng, on Flickr

is it possible to remove the plate holder and trim of the black part at the left and right side, wonder will kena stop by police/jpj or not? feel like the number plate is too big

This post has been edited by amduser: Jun 19 2016, 12:49 AM

what you gonna do with the leftover engine oil, your next service is also free? i think sc usually dont give back

i dont have the door alignment issue that you experienced, so far no one in the club has complained about it or any that i know of

i also not sure what paddle issue you talking about, if you say you floor the pedal then immediately release it then the rpm will maintain for a while to maintain the torque output for better response on next acceleration

thanks...i was expecting a sunrise that day but turned out to be a 23c cold weather

hope the car dont pounce forward eh, in front is lake already

lol....dont keep asking for picture only la, later she run away

i think what they mean is the gear changing back to normal, it tends to upshift and keep for few second before resume back to fuel saving mode

This post has been edited by amduser: Jun 20 2016, 01:06 PM

i also come from vios, some more is the 1st gen facelift

i think i know what you mean already, in vios when you floor pedal it downshift and accelerate, once you release it will shift back to the appropriate gear

different engine different behavior la, vios is for fuel savings and it is not as "smart" as skyactiv, if you do the same thing to skyactiv engine, it will downshift, from that point onward you are telling the engine "i want more power now" so it downshift and give you the zoom zoom feel

once you release pedal it wont immediately upshift to drop the rpm for better fuel efficiency, it will stay at the gear so that when you need to accelerate again it will give immediate response, compare to vios if it upshift to drop the rpm then the next time you want to accelerate you have to wait for the transmission to downshift therefore it is not efficient

this is a normal behavior, you can either manually shift to higher gear/release the accelerator pedal/step lightly on accelerator pedal, then the rpm will resume normal

another thing is that when the car detected it is in uphill, it will limit it's maximum gear to 5th gear and sometime it will downshift until the rpm reached >3k for better acceleration uphill, when going downhill and you release accelerator or step on the brake, it will downshift earlier to use engine braking for better braking, it will use engine braking as well when you drive at high speed and perform hard braking

i assume your car is still new? new car out of factory tend to have gear hunting where it is too sensitive to your throttle response, after few days of driving the car will adjust to your behavior and you will feel the car tend to have more stable gear shifting and know when you want it to downshift

you can try, i dont even know where the oil filter located

post in skyactiv m3 group in fb then no need censor plate lor

the engine wont drop it's rpm faster than you upshift, if it does it means that there is a lot of friction and causes the engine rpm to drop that fast

no matter how fast a car shift, it cant be faster than a 1:1 response @ peak torque rpm range

the idea here is, shifting = waste of time, less efficient

most of us dont censor our plate also, too lazy already and since both the group is closed group and member who join has gone through admin screening so it is relatively safe, if those vios club or myvi club then have to be careful la

sometime we will even take picture of member's car and post to the group if we see them with the club sticker, just like what i did to toony that day

it seems like when the sales volume increase = quality goes down

those staff need to have self discipline and ethics, but how many really has that kind of mindset

just like last time my vios got accident, they changed a new headlight, but the headlight clip is not completely fit and after a while got water vapor inside the headlight, the other side is the original headlight that is already 10 years old also dont have this problem, and if inspect closely, the design of the new headlight is slightly different, the clipping point also different and can never be fit perfectly, i suspect they use some clone headlight on my car but i also lazy to argue with them already since i need my car back urgently...totally hopeless

we need 5L of engine oil right? if i'm not mistaken mazda engine oil come with 4L bottle, so to refill the engine oil of m3 we need 2 bottle, if give back the extra bottle of engine oil that would be 3L worth of engine oil already

for warranty claim, they might need to send the old parts back to HQ for claims, not sure about engine oil but you can try to ask for it

taman equine that one only got 2 service bay is it? that day i went i see it is so small, this friday gonna go there change the lower arm bush to solve the ngek ngek sound

maybe their reset is ecu reset by unplug your battery for 10 mins then connect back, all the engine and transmission settings will be reset to default and let them learn again

best way to do it is to open up and check, some of those parts are hard to check like oil filter, for engine oil you can take out the dipstick and check the oil color, it should be have some color like gold or red color depends on the type of oil, if black or grey color then hard to check la

this is a sample from my leftover oil last time, originally the oil should have its own color and should be transparent clear


i'm far from my car now so i cant show you, if you take out from dipstick you might not able to get this color even though you pour in new oil, because there will be some old oil left inside your engine, you should get a bit brownish color from the dipstick

best is you check the oil from the dipstick before and after you change oil, see whether the color still same, personally i've not done it before because when i send my car for service i see them pour in the new oil with my own eyes

haha....no lar, the free oil should be semi-synth shell helix

torco is higher end than that oil, i use that for my vios previously

never went there before, not sure how is the service there, it is always a good practice to call for appointment first no matter which sc you go, just to be safe

you can actually join the skyactiv m3 fb group and mazda 3 club fb group to get all these info

then i dont know la, maybe they didnt reset or they just the diagnostic tool to reset it

the behavior that you're talking about is normal, so dont send to sc for that issue already

semi and full both can tahan 10k, pay more and go for reputable brand, dont go for those tesco or jusco oil

mazda 3 BL? i service my previous car at bandar sunway, workmanship not bad, if you want i can give you the contact

or you can join mazda 3 club in fb, they got panel workshop for wheel alignment and parts supplier
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mazda3clubmy

Is a 3rd party speedometer app that read info from GPS and engine, half way going up fraser hill it already show me 550m above sea level, not sure how accurate it is

You not from Klang? You go all the way to old Klang road to service your car ar? That's pretty far