I'm not sure there are rollover requirements, but those A-pillars usually have airbags in them now.
FYI, there's a recall on some recent Mazdas about false positives in the collision detection system. I don't think it covers this car, though.
I'm not sure there are rollover requirements, but those A-pillars usually have airbags in them now.
FYI, there's a recall on some recent Mazdas about false positives in the collision detection system. I don't think it covers this car, though.
I've noticed the A pillars on my 2018 '3' are pretty thick. Not usually an issue, but it is a bit distracting, compared to all the older stuff I'm used to. Mine is about to turn 25,000 miles.
The collision detector dealie on mine occasionally illuminates for no good reason. It doesn't seem to affect anything, other than being an annoying idiot light. Typically it happens in poor weather, so I'm thinking water/ ice droplets are affecting it. I've just learned to ignore it.
oldeskewltoy said:Now... comparing Zen to Surreptitious (1983 AE71 Corolla) is very interesting.... The first thing for me... visibility out of my Corolla is natural, I have few if any blind spots, the Mazda3 has horrible blind spots... including the "A" pillars... I ALMOST pulled out and hit someone because I lost that person in the "A" pillar... who "loses" someone in the "A" pillar???
Not sure if you missed the comment I made about the poor visibility before you bought it:
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/what-else-to-look-at/157631/page2/
Did you not pick up on this during the test drive, or just didn't think that it would be much of an issue?
volvoclearinghouse said:I've noticed the A pillars on my 2018 '3' are pretty thick. Not usually an issue, but it is a bit distracting, compared to all the older stuff I'm used to. Mine is about to turn 25,000 miles.
The collision detector dealie on mine occasionally illuminates for no good reason. It doesn't seem to affect anything, other than being an annoying idiot light. Typically it happens in poor weather, so I'm thinking water/ ice droplets are affecting it. I've just learned to ignore it.
It's because it wants you to wash the car, and in turn, the sensor itself. At least that's what I found after googling when it did so to me.
In reply to z31maniac :
Yeah it most recently happened during a snow we had last week. After taking the 3 through the automatic wash, no more issues.
I'm slowly coming around to the new 3s. The awd is a good feature.
In reply to mainlandboy :
closest to "not much of an issue", except it was more like it was our thought that it would be an issue with ALL new cars. While it was disconcerting, no impact... no foul.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
Thank you for the heads up... It doesn't seem to specify any details about which cars(which pkg, fwd, awd, or all), so I informed the wife so she is aware...
She did manage to figure out how to tone down the cruise control nanny... down to about 2 car lengths (down from 10, or more!)
One other observation... speed bumps... Surreptitious and Zen take speedy bumps very differently, I wonder how much overall tire diameter has to do with feeling impacts on different types of bumps - not just speed bumps, but other road "hazards" (cracks, dips, small pot holes, shallow ones, deep ones, etc. etc.) I find Zen "hits" many bumps hard, while others are barely felt, and in many cases Surreptitious is the opposite. bumps that feel hard in Zen are breezed over, while others that Zen barely feels, Surreptitious hits harder.... great example is speed bumps in SW Portland, Zen hits many of them a lot harder, where Surreptitious seems to simply pop over them.
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