How many people r going to buy the new model ND

davekmoore · Postby **davekmoore** » Sun Jun 12, 2016 1:39 pm

nerdinary wrote:But a downer - my nav unit (mzd connect?) stopped working about ~5 hours after driving it back from the dealer. Just sits there on an animated boot logo. Took it to the closest mazda dealer near my house, and I've been informed that "it might be a problem with the CMU" - I couldn't quite get a good explanation as to what the CMU is, but from what I gather it's the electronic unit that runs the nav system? Now I have to wait for Mazda to authorize a replacement.

MZD units are usually very reliable. There's an update around for some of them. Might be worth asking if yours would be revived by applying it. Did you buy the car because you needed some of the MZD functions and are now finding life difficult with the unit not working? If so, send me a PM.

Postby **beavis** » Sun Jun 12, 2016 7:19 pm

nerdinary wrote: Excellent seating position.

I find the seating position horrendous. Its way too high and the steering wheel is too far away.
I've pulled the seat out and did the 'disconnect the webbing under the butt of the seat' trick, but that didn't help.
But all my other mx5's are the same, and for those I just changed the seat and steering wheel.

zero00 · Postby **zero00** » Sun Jun 12, 2016 7:48 pm

Disgusting!

IMO an MX-5 is a sports car convertible and not a hardtop or gullwing - or does that roof come off?

Time to order a new Lada :roll:

nerdinary · Postby **nerdinary** » Sun Jun 12, 2016 11:04 pm

davekmoore wrote:MZD units are usually very reliable. There's an update around for some of them. Might be worth asking if yours would be revived by applying it. Did you buy the car because you needed some of the MZD functions and are now finding life difficult with the unit not working? If so, send me a PM.

Nothing I 'need' it for. It's just annoying that I have a new car, less than a few days old and I can't even turn on the radio. Let's hope they replace the unit (no reason why they shouldn't)

Postby **beavis** » Sun Jun 12, 2016 11:14 pm

The CMU uses a linux based OS, very good chance they will try just give it a software reload and see if that fixes it first.

nerdinary · Postby **nerdinary** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 12:09 am

beavis wrote:The CMU uses a linux based OS, very good chance they will try just give it a software reload and see if that fixes it first.

Apparently that's already been tried (I'd left it back with the dealer for half a day). Now just waiting on Mazda to authorize a CMU replacement.

tennyson · Postby **tennyson** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 1:26 am

You can download the Mazda toolbox software from the Mazda site and do your own updates, if you are tech savvy.

It's not rocket science, but to be careful, I bought a spare SD card and copied the files to it first and keep the original in a safe place, in case of a fault with the card.

It's an easy process and you can do it with a laptop or desktop. Otherwise, you will need to wait until Mazda perform the updates during services.

Frank

cjay · Postby **cjay** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 10:24 pm

davekmoore wrote:
nerdinary wrote:But a downer - my nav unit (mzd connect?) stopped working about ~5 hours after driving it back from the dealer. Just sits there on an animated boot logo. Took it to the closest mazda dealer near my house, and I've been informed that "it might be a problem with the CMU" - I couldn't quite get a good explanation as to what the CMU is, but from what I gather it's the electronic unit that runs the nav system? Now I have to wait for Mazda to authorize a replacement.

MZD units are usually very reliable. There's an update around for some of them. Might be worth asking if yours would be revived by applying it. Did you buy the car because you needed some of the MZD functions and are now finding life difficult with the unit not working? If so, send me a PM.

I had lots of problems with the MZD in both my ND's, the latest software update seems to have fixed everything.

ajkdark · Postby **ajkdark** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 8:28 pm

Hello,

I am new to the forum.

I am picking up my Soul Red GT Auto, 2 litre on Tuesday.

Very excited.

Thought I would share my news

Cheers

taminga16 · Postby **taminga16** » Sun Jun 19, 2016 12:54 pm

Just this....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt-_AdqCSRk

pcmx5 · Postby **pcmx5** » Wed Jun 22, 2016 6:45 pm

ME,details in my 2009 NC for sale post.On the dyno tomorrow,new wheels and tryes today after a pleasant and surprising enjoyable run home from Ballarat where I picked it up.Base 1.5 grey.

Peter.

pcmx5 · Postby **pcmx5** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:56 pm

Made a very creditable 79.2 RWK on Dalton Automotives Dyno Dynamics .My NC2 made 91RWK on the same dyno.NC made about 300 more tractive though.

Will also post this in Dyno sectiopn,where it should be.

Peter

gobsmax · Postby **gobsmax** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 1:08 pm

Does anyone have a copy of the owners manual?

I found a LHD version, but wanted the RHD version.

Cheers,
Alan

davekmoore · Postby **davekmoore** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:08 pm

Buy car get free manual. Even if you buy an auto.

gobsmax · Postby **gobsmax** » Mon Jun 27, 2016 9:44 pm

beavis wrote:
gobsmax wrote:Does anyone have a copy of the owners manual?

I found a LHD version, but wanted the RHD version.

Cheers,
Alan

I have a copy which covers both LHD and RHD vehicles here: http://ndmx5.com/downloads/