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Just picked up our 2018 CX-5 Touring model. What should I know about this car? Traded in a RAV4 needed a change.
Just picked up our 2018 CX-5 Touring model. What should I know about this car? Traded in a RAV4 needed a change.
A bit late to asking now?! CX5 is such a better vehicle... so much fun to drive and amazingly roomy when u need to haul stuff
I asked on another Mazda community forum. That one is more dead than alive. We have been testing all the competitors in the region. My wife is 6 foot tall and did not fit into many of them. What I was asking, is what have people experienced in owning this car? I am in Mercedes Benz, Prius and RAV4 forums. That is a common question in each.
See, but that's the thing? What have people experienced? A fun to drive, teched out car that is so far proving pretty reliable. Not many downsides. This is why you aren't getting a lot of comments to the question. Nothing to really "look out for" except the paint.
Oh, I got one...try not to open doors with your ring fingered hand. Could scratch the paint there. Though not seeing many complaints there. Could just be me.
I was not asking for only the downside. What interest me is the things that occur with a car, not in the manual. Driving the car must have shown some nuances about it. For example, in the mbworld.org forum I learned that if i held down the open switch on the fob, all the windows and the moonroof open. Good thing to know during a heat wave. So what things have you and others learned that you would like to share?
I liked that feature!Ok, but that should be in the manual, the all windows down thing. I found that in my Volvo manual.
But I get it. Here's one that isn't in the manual: when on a FM or AM. Station if you push and hold the Commander Knob, it adds it to your favorites.
Go to your infotainment and pull up "Vehicle Status Monitor" under "Application". Check your current "Oil Life" in "Oil Change" under "Maintenance". Your "Setting Interval" should be "Flexible" from factory. Depending on how long your CX-5 has been sitting in the dealer's lot, your "Oil Life" should be around 6,000 miles. Flexible oil change interval for 2018 CX-5 is up to 7,500 miles or 12 months whichever comes first. If you see 7,500 miles on oil life, it means the oil life Monitor has been reset again from factory and it now shows incorrect oil life.I was not asking for only the downside. What interest me is the things that occur with a car, not in the manual.
Thanks, that is what I was talking about. I set it up for the wife and she is pleased with me for now.I liked that feature!
Here's another one.
Auto lock when leaving the CX-5. When you walk away, it will in most cases automatically lock all the doors
Thanks, that is what I was talking about. I set it up for the wife and she is pleased with me for now.
Thanks, that is what I was talking about. I set it up for the wife and she is pleased with me for now.
Be careful and learn how it works as there have been times I went to bed and the next morning my doors were unlocked due to me not triggering the walk away and lock properly. Since then I’ve been using the key fob to lock it manually
You don't have the button on the doors/tailgate to lock it (uhm)