Bro,

If you feel so bad about it, go complain to Consumer body.. wake tis f****rs up a bit..

I am right here at Bermaz HQ. Paid for the battery and the SC manager gave me 15% discount. I will still insist to file a complain, I hope all owners in this thread please inform your friends or family on his issue. Making noise in this HQ will not do anything but I will need to raise in to Some consumer body , MCMC perhaps?

How much did they charge you for the battery? You can get i-stop battery for about RM500 outside.

bros....my mazda 3, 3rd birthday is coming soon which means the warranty is due.
can anyone tell me where i can install the rear camera for my cbu mazda3 and also where can i unlock the speed limitation.

Thank you every much

This post has been edited by ma3da: Feb 23 2017, 08:15 PM

There is speed limiter for CBU BM model? What is the cut off speed?

Honestly did not know that.

Technically, it is not really speed limiter, but rev limiter. IF you try to red line the car, it won't go into the red zone with the auto. So the top speed limited to around 210-220km/h. It is more to protect the transmission and also engine components. For our hot climate and low quality petrol, red lining the engine often puts further strain the drivetrain.

The limiter is different from the accelerator kick down switch? Because the BM love to down shift and hit redline once you really full throttle. Not a fan of it, because it spoils smooth gradual acceleration.

Speed limiter in this car is the engine rpm limiter not like other car where it limit the speed of the car, usually at 180km/h

Which means the engine rpm can reach to maximum of 6.5k before power cut off

If you are coming from CVT or 4 speed car or manual turn you have to get used to the downshift when you floor the accelerator because the gear ratio are closer now and got more gear to play with, if you want gradual acceleration try not to step the accelerator over 30% or step too fast, else the car will think you need more power hence you will feel the sudden acceleration

This car can perform close to cvt gearbox when you driving gently and comfortably and shift faster than other conventional torque converter gearbox

Kick down switch is a switch which maxes out the potential of the engine at the given time when the switch is activated. From my experience, if you're driving below 100km/h, it will go full throttle at 2nd gear. Above that will be 3rd gear and above 120km/h would be 4th gear.

But if you notice, especially if you try with transmission in manual mode, the car won't accelerate further into the red line range. It just touches it and stays there and maybe jumping a bit. If you want it to go further into the red line range, you need a tuning to increase the limiter.

Just a word of caution. If you want to play with the full throttle thing, please do it either in the express way (or a straight road with minimal cars around, maybe early morning or later at night) and stay within the 1st 2 gears. You'll reach 100km/h in around 4 seconds with a rolling start from the 1st gear. Some people may think this is slow, but since we have no professional racing experience, it is a dangerous game to play if you're fully in tune with your reaction time and also in tune with how the car response every single moment in the rev range.

Regarding your comment that the acceleration is not smooth/abrupt, you can play around with the transmission set to manual mode. You choose when to shift the gears without putting down too much on the accelerator pedal travel.

This post has been edited by wkc5657: Feb 28 2017, 09:56 AM

My top speed is at 170km/h. Cant go any further tested in sepang.

Rather strange, but I personally didn't go any further than 160km/h before due to the road and traffic condition. But i reached that speed without trying too hard...

I may give it a speed test few weeks later when i'm driving back alone on a less used express way to test this out.

you can go all the way up to 220km/h, 195km/h in PLUS highway is easy as long as there is enough straight road ahead

but drive safe though...

Hey guys, I am thinking of buying the mazda 3, so far been checking out a few dealers, price etc. I will be going for the sedan GL high spec. I have learnt that there will be a facelift. Do you think there will be a huge price increase? the revision is minimal so i don't mind getting the current version. But if there is a big price increase maybe they will reduce the price on the current version. Confused. All help appreciated.

This post has been edited by icechiller555: Mar 2 2017, 09:16 AM

I also waiting price reduce more so far I saw rm 7k discount for both spec plus now bermaz giving 5 year or 100k warranty and 3 year free service....

They increased price 3 times last year now they are very tricky lower down 7k u still buying same price.... They no lost gimmick giving 5 year warranty.... But seems like nobdy buy 2016 car right now...Sure they will lower the price if car market continue bad..

there is no difference between 2016 and 2017 make, unless you want to sell your car in near future, so just go for the best deal you can get and of course the 5 years warranty

Bro normally they should bring new facelift alrdy ...Coz of sales no good they still try to clean up 2016 but not many people wan 2016 models so they have no choice should bring the facelift

I heard the facelift will come in August and will be priced at 130k. The price will increase similar to what they did with mazda 6.

Damn bermaz is not consistence on the maintenance.

for CBU they only giving out 3 years or 60,00km all free service.

You can't say that they are inconsistent, they are matching the competition in the market that offers higher warranty now. Toyota did that almost 2 years ago, it is a good thing that warranty coverage is extended.

The only point of clarification will be whether this extends to current owners who bought their cars before their new warranty policy. But again, some people might complain about their "chepo" shell engine oil if service at the official service centres....

this is not fair. at least impliment on newer 2017 stock?i got my battery changed free after 2years few months in. cbu spec.
my last also 1st free battery. civic fd. limit was 1year or 40k which come first. i was right on the dot

theyre available on most car accesories now. price from rm480-700.