Mazda5rocks
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Is it possible to get the Mazda5 to lock the doors when it goes into drive.. like my old Sable used to?
jandree22 said:Yeah, this is a major grip with me about the 5. Doors locked is the safest way to drive considering accidental door openings and carjacking attempts, but the 5 wont do it. Even a previous manual tranny car I had locked the doors when you hit 8mph or so for the first time during your drive. Oh well
MFive said:This was not a big deal for me. If I'm in an accident, I'd like for someone to be able to open the door and help me. If I'm in a "bad section of town," I'll just manually lock the doors. That protects me from carjackings AND if I'm in an accident, from someone opening the doors and stealing stuff!
A bigger gripe of mine is all doors have to be closed before the remote will lock the doors. It's more convenient to open the sliding door, lock all the doors, put the key in my pocket, then grab bags or babies. Nothing major, just something I was use to on our Mountaineer.
In my wifes Solara, the fob makes electronic beeping noises (not honk) when you lock (beep) and unlock (beep-beep) the doors. Well, if I lock the doors with the fob and a door isnt shut, the normally single beep stays on continuously until the door is shut. So sometimes when I think my wife has shut the door, Ill hit lock and get a beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Annoying and embarrassing! hahaMFive said:A bigger gripe of mine is all doors have to be closed before the remote will lock the doors.
was98strat said:Being not able to lock all the doors with one open is a very positive thing. (very forward thinking too!) prevents a lot of situations where you are accidentally locked out of your car. My previous cars did this. Honda's and Suzuki's without power locks all required me to lock the drivers door with the Key from the outside! The only car I had that allowed me to power lock all the doors with one open was my Dodge stratus, not the best of designs!
That can be aggravating, but it's also nice if you inadvertently bump the unlock button on your fob while you're pocketing your keys on the way into the office/mall/home.jlk_250 said:One other thing I don't like about the Mz5 keyless entry is if you unlock the doors remotely but don't open them right away, they lock themselves back up again.
MFive said:This was not a big deal for me. If I'm in an accident, I'd like for someone to be able to open the door and help me.
My '09 hasn't done anything like this. Thankfully. I'm one of those who would rather lock the doors myself, or leave them unlocked most of the time.I have 2009 Mazda5 and I'm absolutely sure that when we took car from dealer the doors automatically closed when i start to drive and then doors will be opened when I remove key from ignition. Then something happened and I lost this feature. Can somebody help to restore it.
I don't believe this feature exists in NA.
Interesting. Do you have the owner's booklet of your factory alarm?
I'm thinking maybe we have this feature in our MAZDA5 and needs only some
set up to activate.