Witnessed a frustrating incident recently. Irked me to no end. BTW: I do love my CX-5 but found the below experience: Unacceptable.
Left car in NJ Transit parking lot (as usual) with EPB = ON and left for work (as usual). Return to find out battery died. Why? No idea - could be I left something on, who knows.... but that's not the point. The point is:
1st point irked me to no end: Bloody trunk wont open! Nada, zilch. There's NO manual release, WTF? I had to put down the seats and crawl in. Even from inside - can't find a manual release. Now - my jump start wires are UNDER the cargo rubber mat. Try pulling that mat from inside! BAD design by Mazda in my opinion. They should have some facility to manually release the trunk.
Found a nice gentleman who agreed to help and jump started my car. Then Hell broke loose.
2nd. point irked me to Kingdom Come: The car won't move. Seat-belts: ON, doors: closed, car: In Park but EPB won't release. Keeps blinking. Tried this, tried that: nada. Can't I restart my car? Duh - no, since the other guy has driven off. I don't want to be stuck again with a dead battery.
So much so - I had to call for Mazda tow service (yes: Still within warranty). That thing will take 60 min. After waiting like this with the car running and not moving - for 15 min., I decided to risk it and shut it down and attempted re-start. Nada/zilch. The EPB keeps blinking. Another jump start and another 15 min.
Finally the tow service: arrives. Car: Stopped. Very accidentally, he attempted restart and car started. (I guess 30 min. in idle did re-charge the battery). Boom: A bunch of error messages came and disappeared and boom: the EPB stopped blinking and now its working as expected.
Tow truck left without towing - don't care if they'll still charge Mazda ; they deserve it.
Moral: Never again - I'll use EPB. If your EPB is ON and something goes wrong with car resulting in loss of electrical power - this is what will happen, I guess. Bad design: absolutely. Something is seriously wrong with this.
Left car in NJ Transit parking lot (as usual) with EPB = ON and left for work (as usual). Return to find out battery died. Why? No idea - could be I left something on, who knows.... but that's not the point. The point is:
1st point irked me to no end: Bloody trunk wont open! Nada, zilch. There's NO manual release, WTF? I had to put down the seats and crawl in. Even from inside - can't find a manual release. Now - my jump start wires are UNDER the cargo rubber mat. Try pulling that mat from inside! BAD design by Mazda in my opinion. They should have some facility to manually release the trunk.
Found a nice gentleman who agreed to help and jump started my car. Then Hell broke loose.
2nd. point irked me to Kingdom Come: The car won't move. Seat-belts: ON, doors: closed, car: In Park but EPB won't release. Keeps blinking. Tried this, tried that: nada. Can't I restart my car? Duh - no, since the other guy has driven off. I don't want to be stuck again with a dead battery.
So much so - I had to call for Mazda tow service (yes: Still within warranty). That thing will take 60 min. After waiting like this with the car running and not moving - for 15 min., I decided to risk it and shut it down and attempted re-start. Nada/zilch. The EPB keeps blinking. Another jump start and another 15 min.
Finally the tow service: arrives. Car: Stopped. Very accidentally, he attempted restart and car started. (I guess 30 min. in idle did re-charge the battery). Boom: A bunch of error messages came and disappeared and boom: the EPB stopped blinking and now its working as expected.
Tow truck left without towing - don't care if they'll still charge Mazda ; they deserve it.
Moral: Never again - I'll use EPB. If your EPB is ON and something goes wrong with car resulting in loss of electrical power - this is what will happen, I guess. Bad design: absolutely. Something is seriously wrong with this.