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Well. The latest on the (lack of) demisting capability is that Mazda say *this is a normal operation of the vehicle and not something we are able to change.* Any further issues I have with this will need to be taken up with the Motor Ombudsman Further emails have said: *All CX-5s would be the...

From Mazda customer services this morning: I*m sorry to hear of the concern with the way the CX-5 clears the windscreen in the car. I have spoken with our technical team for further advice. The information provided by the dealership is correct. The vehicle has a coolant control valve for...

No, that was what I thought too. Apparently there is some other valve! If it was the stat, I could swap it out with one that opened earlier :-)

Apparently, according to the dealer, there is a *valve* that actually shuts off heat to the car in order to heat the engine up. So to actually disengage that and demist you have to rev it it. Anyone else heard something like this?

What a surprise, the dealers say there is nothing wrong with the cars (theyve had a few complaints) and its just due the cars taking a long time to heat up (crazy) Apart from saying the car is unfit for purpose and could be argued as dangerous, is there anything else we can do? (hand)

Genius!!

Ps, anyone know why this forum changes apostrophes to asterisks?

Yup, the A/C comes on ok. I was thinking about inability to get rid of moisture too - assuming the A/C works as it should, there shouldn*t be much inside the car. The A/C is on all the time so should get rid of dampness from shoes / breathing etc. I wonder if the car has been correctly...

Yup, ours is the 2.2D. I suggest though, no matter what the engine, that 15mins to demist a windscreen is way too long. Far longer than any other car we've ever owned. It's booked in to the dealers for a look see but I imagine the problem will be next to impossible to reproduce....

AFAIK, the electric wiper defrost is purely a few electrical heating elements just in the region of the parked wiper blades. Gotta say, pretty pointless I reckon - you*ve still got to scrape the screen clean and it makes no difference to the camera area!

Hah! It*s only a month old!!

Yup, it*s definitely set on drawing air from outside! Ok, good to know that it*s a failing of something in the car, not a design failing. Takes forever to get warm air through so I*m assuming it*s something to do with that. A trip to the dealer is in order. How they*re going to test it though??!

A brand new UK 2018 CX-5 Sport Nav+ and with freezing temps just here in the UK, I clear the ice off the outside and of course the inside of the windscreen is misted up. Press the windscreen demist button (max A/C directed just at windscreen) and turn up temps to max it takes longer than 10...

Thanks Zimurg!

Thank you very much for that - although apparently European ones are 433Mhz, not 315Mhz...?