Just wiping the rear camera after rain/snow is tedious enough, as long as I won't have to clean all 4 cameras. Anyone knows how well Nissan's self-cleaning system works (http://www.carscoops.com/2013/06/nissan-debuts-intelligent-self-cleaning.html)?
But frankly the sideview mirrors are almost good enough to cover the two sides, the rear camera is wide-angle. I don't think the bird's eye view is much of an improvement, just more things to break down and repair costs.
Just wiping the rear camera after rain/snow is tedious enough, as long as I won't have to clean all 4 cameras. Anyone knows how well Nissan's self-cleaning system works (http://www.carscoops.com/2013/06/nissan-debuts-intelligent-self-cleaning.html)?
But frankly the sideview mirrors are almost good enough to cover the two sides, the rear camera is wide-angle. I don't think the bird's eye view is much of an improvement, just more things to break down and repair costs.
Agreed! Like 8-way power seat, more luxurious CX-9 used to have this feature but was taking away on new 2nd-gen CX-9! I've seen this feature on CX-5 in Taiwan so this's another "penny wise, pound foolish" decision made by Mazda North American Operations against US ustomers.Just give me a damn downward tilting side view mirror so I don't fk up my wheels when I parallel park. That's all I ask for. I almost lol'd when the guy giving me my new car orientation told me the mirrors didn't tilt down.
Agreed! Like 8-way power seat, more luxurious CX-9 used to have this feature but was taking away on new 2nd-gen CX-9! I've seen this feature on CX-5 in Taiwan so this's another "penny wise, pound foolish" decision made by Mazda North American Operations against US ustomers.
I believe this auto tilt-down feature on passenger-side outside rearview mirror is somehow related to power folding outside rearview mirrors on Mazda's. When this auto tilt-down mirror feature is disappeared from new 2nd-gen CX-9, so as the power folding mirrors! As discussed before, retrofitting the power folding mirror is not an easy task even if you can get all the proper parts from other left-hand-drive countries. In order to make auto tilt-down works, we'd need at least modify some software within power mirror control module, and make the gear shift data available to the module.Wonder if it can be retrofitted.