A Little Story

[Rocky]

Here's a little story that you might find amusing.
Sunday afternoon 4pm - Wife decides to visit a friend - gets in the Mazda 6 and calls out to me "Key won't turn in the ignition."
I try it - she's right it definitely won't turn. Steering doesn't appear to be locked, but I put her back in the driver's seat and push the car back and forward while she tries to turn the steering and the key in the ignition. No result. I jump in and try it again myself. No result.
Looks like we are going to have to find someone who can dismantle the steering column/lock. Sound expensive.
I pull the keys out of the ignition.....they are the keys from my Son's Mazda 3.
Duh.

[JBT]

Must be an old fart problem. I tried desperately, amid bouts of profanities, to lock the Mazda 6 a week ago...with the MX-5 key remote.

[RBH58]

Too many Mazdas in the house.

My wife and I also have identical keys, but mine has a Mazda logo on it, and hers has an Abarth

[Blade_Hunter]

CX-5 and MX-5 in my household, the only way to tell the key apart is the MX-5 has a boot release button on it, the CX-5 doesn't.

Also my wifes CX-5 key may or may not have a MASSIVE minion key chain on it.

[Craig]

You need these then!

https://www.wish.com/c/57e2d4857c158373 ... vAodZT4D2w

[Blade_Hunter]

They are really nice, think I might order me a couple tomorrow

[smy0003]

Classic.
I spent 5 minutes trying to open my green Camry in a shopping centre carpark before the actual owner came up and asked me what I was doing. At that point I remembered that I had actually caught the train to the shopping centre and didn't have my car at all.

Can't be an old fart thing, I must've been just 18 when that happened.

[Cus]

+1 vote for "it's not an old fart thing"

I took the HT off mine on day, went for a drive, then went to the supermarket, put the soft top up, went inside, came out and admired the red NA6 with a soft-top, then proceeded to start looking for my car....

[Rocky]

In this case it was just one of those silly 'lack of attention' things.
Wife picked up the Mazda 3 keys from where the Mazda 6 keys usually live.
I assumed she had the right keys so was thinking down a different path.
It was only when I'd worked through all the "assumptions" that I actually started from where I should have in the beginning.
Assumptions will do you in every time.

[bruce]

Probably a good thing. Mazda made them all the same to thwart the spate of car thievery in Melbourne, where they steal the keys from your home.

[Craig]

+1 vote for "it's not an old fart thing"

I took the HT off mine on day, went for a drive, then went to the supermarket, put the soft top up, went inside, came out and admired the red NA6 with a soft-top, then proceeded to start looking for my car....

That's gold!

[Blade_Hunter]

You need these then!

https://www.wish.com/c/57e2d4857c158373 ... vAodZT4D2w

Well I ordered and received them....... these things are freaking MASSIVE!!!!!. The case itself is really nice, fits the key nicely but the metal part? I am thinking of taking it off and just have the leather pouch, not only is it massive but it's pretty heavy too.

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[Mr Morlock]

Keys went thru a bad period of poor designs- bulky inconvenient for the pocket non folding etc but many modern cars now have a key that does not bulk up the pocket. A massive key is thing of the past.

[Okibi]

Too many Mazdas in the house...

Not possible, Danny and Lou are proof of that (we only have 4).

[StanTheMan]

Great stories. Keep them coming.

I can't think of specifics right now . But I'm sure there's are plenty. I'm sure Craig will chime in & remind me of a few.

That's defenately an old age thing.