My friend has a mazda 6 2017 model and the infotainment went kaput after 4 years. It costs few thousand to replace/fix it and need to wait few months to import from Japan.

Mazda 6 can change after market infotainment? That's exciting! Have you seen anyone done that before? But you lose all that technology that comes with it right?

No idea about all that. I just sat in his car and noticed that the infotainment no longer switches on when he runs it. He says need to wait for SC to import for replacement.

When you do meet up again with your friend please forward my questions to him, as I am really keen to know what actually happened. Thank you very much.

He is wise to have followed the SC advice because the wiring on his vehicle is completely different. If any party who does not know the vehicle electrical plans, they are bound to screw things up and create a even bigger mess and not to mention the cost.

Once a battery reseller did not have the correct battery specification for my friend's Mazda 6, so what they did was try to up sell him an out of specification battery. He wasn't sure about that idea and he called me for an opinion. I told how things would pan out and he decided to search again for another reseller who had correct battery specification.

Sometimes when battery resellers dont follow manufactured specifications but create their own specifications instead, that is the beginning of a problem. Sometimes it is not the reseller but it is the owner themselves trying to cut corners just like those cars with Eco-Idle function mated together with a Regular Flooded Battery. Same size and cheaper mah, clever onot ? Wait till electrical problems starts to crop up, then ask why this, why that ? Then fitnah say that battery brand no good, when it was themselves who created their own mess by not following the SOP.