My 3 Sport has developed weird behavior from the recent colder than cold weather (-20 C during the day, -33 C at night).
1- My Check Engine light came on for a few days. It gave my service rep a weird P2006 (I think) code, something about the intake manifold. No problem was found by the dealer, so they reset the CEL and the problem never came back.
2- Starting the car from cold tonight, after about 10 hours in the cold, all blue and orange lights on the dash, steering wheel and even the central radio display came on but were very dim, at maybe 5% of their usual intensity. All I could see properly was the electroluminescent stuff (red gauges, no blue background). I let the car warm up until the engine RPM came down to 1000 from 2500 at first (about 5-7 minutes), cut off the ignition and started the car again, to see everything come back to normal.
3- My airbag sensors have been out of whack since New Year's Eve. Dealer says the sensors need to be replaced for Canada-specific models, but those are on back order.
4- My Brake and ABS lights came on 4 times over 2 days when the weather got warmer (back up to -10 C) a few days ago. ABS was out of order when the light was on. Again, turning the engine off, then on again took care of this.
5- My last grief is about the right wiper at temperatures colder than -10 C; it often fails to wipe with the rightmost 5-6 inches of the wiper. That makes the rain sensor misbehave (it's not cleaned properly by the same wiper) and forces me the play the intermittent wiper god (triggering it manually).
EDIT: Thread title :twisted:
NOTE: Let's take this to Mazda3/Axela so other people (not just Canadians) can benefit from it.
1- My Check Engine light came on for a few days. It gave my service rep a weird P2006 (I think) code, something about the intake manifold. No problem was found by the dealer, so they reset the CEL and the problem never came back.
2- Starting the car from cold tonight, after about 10 hours in the cold, all blue and orange lights on the dash, steering wheel and even the central radio display came on but were very dim, at maybe 5% of their usual intensity. All I could see properly was the electroluminescent stuff (red gauges, no blue background). I let the car warm up until the engine RPM came down to 1000 from 2500 at first (about 5-7 minutes), cut off the ignition and started the car again, to see everything come back to normal.
3- My airbag sensors have been out of whack since New Year's Eve. Dealer says the sensors need to be replaced for Canada-specific models, but those are on back order.
4- My Brake and ABS lights came on 4 times over 2 days when the weather got warmer (back up to -10 C) a few days ago. ABS was out of order when the light was on. Again, turning the engine off, then on again took care of this.
5- My last grief is about the right wiper at temperatures colder than -10 C; it often fails to wipe with the rightmost 5-6 inches of the wiper. That makes the rain sensor misbehave (it's not cleaned properly by the same wiper) and forces me the play the intermittent wiper god (triggering it manually).
EDIT: Thread title :twisted:
NOTE: Let's take this to Mazda3/Axela so other people (not just Canadians) can benefit from it.