went to test drive ytd. NVH refinement really bad

That's good price I guess.

I am going to change to 225/45R18 tomorrow at RM650 per pc exclude GST.

Talking about hidden buttons, I sent my car for ECU remap & the sifu told me that there's actually a button on the accelerator when you press full to turn on "aggressive driving mode". Never knew about this.

After googling, it's called a Accelerator Pedal Kickdown Switch.

I can't comment on the FC yet as it's only been a day, but I"m loving it so far. The car feels a lot lighter and responsive. I find the stock Mazda 3 sluggish on low speed & rev. Even my old waja had better pickup. But after the remap, it definitely feels alot livelier. I'm actually expecting better FC because I won't need to press down the accelerator for 2 seconds waiting to it to pick up anymore.

I did the remap at AE Tuned. Look for Mr.Chai. They are doing a promo now.
Wow, 380km does seem a little low. I'm on 80% city driving and I get more than 500km, and I don't have a light right feet. Might need to get something checked.

My car is not even one month old yet and I've already pumped 4 times mileage is at 1600km.

I'm usually using RON95 at the moment. Damn, I should really try some long distance driving to see how much I can stretch my FC. Too bad where I stay & work has countless speed bumps, traffic lights & jams. I'll report back in a week to see if my FC is affected.

So if I get 8.8L/100km for 80% highway driving is that considered acceptable? Do check out my gas info above if you don't mind helping me out :S

I purchased a DRL from taobao and it failed me 

yes bro, stock mapping is kinda laggy or i would say its tuned to be more fuel efficient, haha, notice that m3 likes to go to highest gear possible at all times..

i also cannot tahan that, tats why i added a taiwan ultra charger which cost around 1k, and a drop in stainless steel air filter.. believe it or not it does give me more torque in lower end rpm.. not to say a lot, but i feel better response..
yes bro, 3k-4k is really good, i came from persona too... same goes to me, need to rev real high for overtaking.. but i love m3 2nd gear the most, 3k-5k was real fast! 

That because of torque.
How much torque increase from your mapping?
Im also interested to do ecu remapping for better acceleration. But i also afraid if it can cause tyre damage bwcause high torque tyre will torn n wear easily

Hi guys,izzit Mazda 3 suitable for someone always outstation? Already book the high spec sedan,but many people told me that this car not suitable for me.
Since I always driving to outstation,one month around 1.5k mileage,but I do like the interior of M3:(

Same here, which is the main reason I tune my car because I find the low end torque for stock isn't enough. My previous ride was the 4G18 waja which had pretty alright torque at the low rpm. Probably why I not use to it.

After tuning my car I rarely rev above 3k. I'm not sure how accurate is the chart since it's not my car. Guess the best way to know is to test it out against a stock car.

Btw previously you mentioned you added some ultra charger, can share what's that?

Here you go.

Not from my car leh...is provide by AE Tuned when i request on Dec15.
Still research for other tuner.

Hi kluseng, thanks for remembering! I did monitor my driving to *try* to keep it to under 90kmh but decided that was not how I wanted to live haha. I keep it to 2.5rpm driving at 120kmh making sure to keep the needle below 3rpm. Definitely some improvements. I can drive up to 440kmh now before I have to refuel. Will keep track for another 2-4 weeks to see if it will improve in time as I've only driven my car for officially one month and two days now. Car performance also seem more smooth as well as for the laggy acceleration.. Not sure if I've gotten used to it or what but it seems like my mazda seems to be more familiar with how I drive now, and is more willing to accelerate. Current FC is 8.3 km/l AVG speed at 31. Last fuel-up on the 26th and I have been driving everyday. Still about 25% fuel left. Good news indeed!

Went to SC to replace parts and brought up the fuel thing to them, but told them it is improving; but will still monitor if any oddities crop up. The SC just don't really care and just nod head and have no input. They changed 3 parts in my car but still got sound so they say need to order from Japan since our warehouse tak ada. 3 horus of my off day wasted but better than this dude I read in the other mazda3 forum.

A 2015 mazda 3 after 9 months driving suddenly caput. Everything else working, lights radio etc but die die also cannot start engine. Called mazda and they couldn't figure it out. Loaned him a mazda 6 first to diagnose his car. Turns out it was a faulty body control module. Link here if you're interested.

Few days ago I read about someone fixing the ticking noise at the dashboard and uploaded this pdf but it didin't solve it for certain drivers so this guy did something unusual to his car himself that solved it but seems a tad worrisome.

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when to 1U shopping mall and park at the rooftop car park, when coming down the ramp my car scratch against the left divider because i still cant get used to the longer and wider car body, then go down and check it didnt touch the body, but the rear left rim got like 3cm scratch at the edge, lucky the tyres didnt puncture

did you guy notice that some car like to provoke you after you drive m3? just now i drive close to a Kia Rio on right lane then he might have thought that i'm provoking him, then after that keep tailgating me, i damn scare he will kiss me anytime, when he overtake me again i can see that the driver keep looking at me

seriously why would i want to provoke a Kia Rio and on a busy Sungai Besi highway

definitely can smoke him la, but that time is heavy traffic, dont wanna risk my life and my car
haha....car face problem kodo design too "seductive" already better stay at middle or left lane next time

this car can got really good acceleration and stability, today morning highway quite empty so i floor the pedal for a while and i get this speed already
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Depends on your preference. You want to know how many litres you need to go a hundred km. I want how many km I can eke out per litre. Either way works. Just not per tank.
Yes 5.9l/100km is good. Try verifying it with a manual calculation when you pump. More accurate than the trip computer. And don't baby your cars too much. Common belief is that the carbon buildup in direct injected engines is made worse when the engines don't run hot enough.

Hey guys, any idea when the facelifted Mazda 3 will be launched here ? Since most of Mazda's current line-up has been facelifted, wondering if its wise to wait for the facelift version.