Depends on whether you are in sport mode also right?

RCTA is particularly useful whether if you are a careful driver or not. Sometimes, it is very hard to see oncoming cars if you park head-in into a parking bay.

The rest is arguable on whether it is effective or not.

At the end of the day, this are all active safety and it is not to be taken for granted. If someone is to drive while texting because they have smart city brake, than the intention is wrong from the beginning and that is not to be encouraged in the first place.

However good the reverse camera is, it is quite different from RCTA as it serves as a warning. Sometimes, it is also hard to see what is on the screen and you cannot fully rely on the screen alone to reverse out.

It is not meant for you to reverse without checking, it serves as an additional warning to supplement all your fisheye, wide angle cameras, reverse sensors and everything which in someway is different from lane keep systems.

Ini bukan sport button kah?


I am not in BMW M3 thread right?

This is why i mentioned that we are supposed to feed you information on what each feature does and for you to decide ultimately on your own decision.

Whether it is worth it or not is justified when you begin to regret not having paid the extra in the first place. Like a certain someone here

There are undeniably somethings that are very very good to have like RCTA in my opinion, and some you might or might not like or might even come to the stage of disabling it.

So, there is no matter of affordability in this if you have the funds for it. It is just whether you feel like paying for it or not. From the feel of it, you are just trying to find reasons to justify it and apart from scaring you into buying it. I don't see how it is possible you will fork up the money for it since you are set out to be fence sitter on the additional features right from the start.

From this point onwards, what i can recommend is to take a look down the GL path and see if there are things that you like (apart from i-active sense) on the High Spec version and see how much it costs to obtain it from aftermarket enhancements. With those costs in mind, then you relook into this situation again as the cost differences will be smaller and from there only you decide if the smaller gap is worth considering even to go for the GL.

That is how i would look at it, personally.

Difference is warranty voided

Jokes aside, the MZDconnect can be so called "modified" with a tool uploading a specifically configured firmware i think to the thumbdrive and some magic is done to make the changes on the HU.

The question is how desperate are you to do that? Just youtube it, lots of fancy examples. You just need to see how tempted you are into trying it.

Need so specific?

Oh. I test drive that time got

It is a preference at the end of the day. No right and wrong answer to the justification of the RM15k extra.

Haha, first time i heard someone relate NVH to a Mazda.

The inception of RCTA is that it is not a safety related feature but more of a convenience related feature. Just like the reverse sensors, try getting people to park a car without reverse sensor now and they'd most probably freak out.

This is also reason why seldom people park head-in nowadays because they can fully rely on reverse sensors and camera to tell them how close they are getting to the surrounding walls. Until the day front proximity sensors and cameras become the norm, RCTA will be a good feature to have to supplement the reverse sensors and cameras. Especially when there is blind spots involved.

Furthermore, you use parking sensors much more than you intentionally use the features of i-ActiveSense.

It is a combination of a couple of safety technologies.

From automatic leveling headlights, to lane keep assist, lane departure warnings, radar cruise control, etc...

It is a host of safety oriented technologies to help keep the driver and passengers of the car safe.

I mean in general scope of what the i-activesense suite can do la. Not in specific Malaysian or Mazda 3 form.

SCBS actually uses a millimeter-wave radar while front parking sensors use ultrasonic sensors.

Both has different usage and capabilities where millimeter-wave radars have the capability to differentiate two separate large objects rather than assuming they are one single object. The definition, depth, coverage area and distance that millimeter-wave radars can perceive is different from ultrasonic sensors making them each suitable for their specific functions.

Tyre bloated always cannot do anything as it is most probably a case of crashing it through a major pothole or you drove the car up a curb and damaged the casing of the tire.

I think recently only i am not sure if it was Pirelli or Michelin who warrants against this sort of damages but upon inspection and the tire has to be bought through their listed dealers or something like that. I can't remember where but i seemed to have read something like this before.

Cos u drive with no brakes

If you mean paint protection film (PPF) then there is a lot of places now. Even some tint shops do PPF nowadays.

But price is not cheap as it can be into thousands just to wrap a complete front end of a car.

It doesn't prevent all stone chips. Only certain situations and the more minor ones. There are situations that a stone can still be fast or sharp enough that it penetrates the film and still damage your paint layer.

Unfortunately some tires are a little more prone to such things. It could be due to the construction of the casing as the belt is not built as tough to make the tires a little comfier or some other considerations at the expense of durability.

I researched before i decided against the car that the MZD Connect firmware can be reflashed to have some features turned on including Android Auto i think




https://mazda3revolution.com/forums/2014-20...nloads-280.html

Whether you want to risk it yourself is the problem.

Waiting for Mazda, might be long. Unless you see any new release models have it.

Strut mounts / top mounts play a role in the comfort of the car also. It prevents shock from the road being transmitted into the chassis.

Changing dampers are just a way to cover up the problems with the top mounts. With time, rubber hardens and the top mounts settles down under the weight of the car. After some time of owning the car, it will never feel like it does on the first day. That is just the reality with rubber.

Fine scratches? As in swirl marks?



I think those mostly come from washing the car improperly. Nothing to do with stones, sands or anything as those will cause more damage than slight marring of the paint.

There is always the coating route to provide a little form of protection on the paint from the contaminations of the environment. But it does nothing more than just that.

Wax don't provide as much protection by todays standards as they are more there to provide gloss and shine than a protection factor.