I honestly made a mistake to buy Civic, low sedan really make me headache with 2 adults and 2 teenagers. Even the extra space in the seats cannot be used to carry 1 more person as the car will squat and scrape the ground.
Perhaps next phase in life I can re-consider a sedan or even CX-30 style. But, CX-30 really expensive for what it offers....CX-5 still you can drag a bit the comparison to CR-V and close one eye.

I hope when the time comes I can directly jump to hot hatch style, my heart is pinned on Golf GTI. Or a Mini. Hopes hopes hopes.

If Mazda 3 comes to malaysia on the 2.5T 4WD system, under the GTI pricing I will jump at it!

Its like you are going to genting and asking, really, bet on 1 is only 1/6?
My friend sold his 2.2D 2018 2 years ago to avoid this. So risk tolerance is really relative.

THe other thing is dirty diesel, you its not easy to check if the previous owner used legit clean euro5+ diesel. Even in the market there are many bad stations just simply sell. Or if the owner put B10.

update on this. The rubber run channel is squeaking again. I cannot tahan, pulled it out and applied a lot of grease and now its silent....

Since you already book, I dont suppose you can return the car like Shopee change of mind…
Paul tan

Here says the pre 2024 does NOT have MRCC. IINM the lane keep assist pre 2024 is more of a pingpong mode and is only doing work when your car drift to the edge of the lane and touch the marking. Then it will turn to the opposite side of the lane and ping pong again.

With 2024 you have cruising and traffic support it can do lane centering. This works by actively keeping your car in the middle of the lane.
CTS also can do low speed follow and follow the car in front (including turning the steering to follow heading) if the car in front turns, down to a almost zero km/h. Useful in traffic jams I guess.

One thing I learn recently, comparison is the robber of joy. If it’s enough, just live with it.

As for the rest of the items they are easily overcome with a few bucks in Lazada.


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Is there any way to check the upcoming service in the car dashboard or infotainment, if I already did a reset of the head unit?

I was checking my next service and it doesn't show up on the head unit / dashboard. I know I had to reset everything due to carplay issues recently.

I probably not due for service until march or april 25. but no reminder in the car is a bit worrying

Mileage was not reset, but time based one I can’t remember too well exactly when was the previous service.

thanks this is how I am checking for now, just want to confirm that the behaviour is normal when resetting the head unit. My previous car won't reset the maintenance reminder .

2.5 NA - petrol consumption is pretty heavy. TBH I tot I was a torque head until I paid for petrol.
Especially for urban and heavy traffic.

In the highway 2.5 is fun, it’s got bottom end to go.
In town you will also suffer the harshness of accelerating hard to 5k rpm and above if you want it, it’s there.


I’ve tried the 2.2D and it’s really nicely done but if you stamp the pedal beware that 2wd does not have enough traction to avoid wheelspin.

Only 2.5T has 4wd and won’t wheelspin so easily.

Anyway the 2.5 is a good choice if you have any desires or plans to zoom about, and it’s good to know some form of zoom is always on tap.

Just know that you WILL pay 20-30% more fuel in almost any situation compared to 2.0. And RM800 of road tax no matter what.

Then the 2.5T will satisfy 95% of power needs except racing. And it will have even greater power bill. And tyre wear.

End of the day, if you are on straight line the torque is deliver at 200Nm per wheel. That is a LOT I say this as a good thing haha

you are replacing the 0 day tyres?

For me it’s normal that the engine rpm is hunting a bit when idle due to air con.
I don’t like the stock Toyo tyres, very noisy. I will try and explore something else, when time comes.
Honestly I heard many good things about Viking / china tyres but I will never use it. Tyres and brakes never leave to chinaman.

1) I use carlinkit boxes, you can get pure wireless carplay, or android based carplay that has sim card and full standalone OS.
1.1 there is a few sellers on FB Mazda groups that can change the whole system to newer wireless carplay for about RM500 or so. But that changes the ICE Control module in your arm rest.

double post.

This post has been edited by lee82gx: May 20 2025, 09:15 AM

ID / exterior design wise I think nothing wrong at all with the new CX-5.
Here at my nitpicks.
1. Longer - I'm not sure it solves much for existing, I felt its already long enough. I would dearly like it to be wider. It is NARROWEST in the class. Just 1inch will help a lot, not sure why they went for 4 inch longer instead.

Here is the biggest problem.
What the nature is happening with NO AC buttons and dials. I've seen Protons and BYDs owners literally cursing when going through the air cond settings via touch screen. Come on, in Malaysia we are baking in the sun.

In USA for example in winter, you DO NOT want to take off the gloves in -20C to access the heater controls. (Which may not work at such cold temps anyway). With gloves a touch screen doesnt even work.

So this car works well in moderate climate when you don't even need AC, ok.

Whatever happen to "touch screens are dangerous" - to quote Mazda themselves. Weird.

This is coming from a guy who went to great lengths to hack the current infotainment to enable touch screen. Somethings are better with knobs and dials and buttons man. Just 2 knobs, 1 for temperature and 1 for fan speed is that too much.

This post has been edited by lee82gx: Jul 11 2025, 11:24 AM

If the Google assistant is done correctly using voice commands is not difficult but it remains to be seen. There is another set of whole new ball game with that, I am somewhat qualified to discuss this but whether people end up liking it or not is another thing as well. I do know that touch panels are absolutely no go for climate controls.

I drive to work early and set it to low fan and 23.

At lunch time I set it quite high and at 20, and then immediately slow down once it cools.

Back to work depends also. These days one cannot know how hot it will be at 5-6pm. End up I twist those knobs every few time I start

front two driver and passenger, should have security tint.