Mazda 3

"1/3 works ok, 1/3 image distorted, 1/3 image blank"

"The on-dash screen split with the top at the the bottom and the bottom at the top. Both the screen and the back-up camera were replaced under warranty"

"About a year after purchasing, the back up camera just stopped working."

"difficult to see in bright sunlight, dims considerable when you turn on your headlights at night"

"tiny numbers and letter on instrument panel, difficult to see in bright sunlight"

"The infotainment center has randomly reset itself while I am driving. It just randomly happens from time to time."

"Mazda replaced the display screen free of charge"

"Even though the display screen has been replace, the display will randomly change radio stations at times."

"The infotainment system gets slower overtime. Not sure if it is due to software upgrade dealership did for me during past services; but it become so slow where it is not useful anymore. In the most current service, I was able to get the software upgrade and hope it works better moving forward, too early to tell."

"Infotainment system would reboot numerous times. Dealer found defective SD card and replaced."

"I was unable to start the car. The infotainment system and backup camera did not work. I assumed it was the batterty and had a jump start. I drove the car for about ut 15-20 kms. The next day I took the car to the Mazda dealer, they could fine nothing wrong and the infotainment system and backup camera worked. The system appeared to correct itself."

"infotainment system constantly resets itself in mild to cold temperatures."

"The infotainment center has randomly reset itself while I am driving. It just randomly happens from time to time"

"When using bluetooth, and possibly other times, shortly after starting the car, usually within about 30 seconds to 3 minutes, the user interface will shut down and reboot. Music will stop, calls via bluetooth will revert back to the phone, nav displays will be gone, and the system acts as if you've just started the car and boots up normally. Usually only happens once, but sometimes two or three times in a row. Most prevalent in cold weather after sitting for 30 minutes or more."

"when car is reverse, the rear view display is occasionally either distorted or totally black which makes the reverse driving difficult. at Mazda dealership service (Richardson, TX) , technician could not find a solution to the problem and contacted Mazda Corporate. it has been 1 month and I have not heard back yet."

"Pandora and Mazda seem to have a feud as they don't play well together"

"The Pandora app on the car regularly drops Pandora on my phone, freezes when I switch to a phone call, displays a notice that my Pandora station has been deleted, and occasionally crashes MazdaConnect altogether"

"iPod no longer playable. iPod is recognized but is not read by the system though the iPod works fine in another vehicle."

"When playing music from our iPod some of the buttons at the bottom of the screen become grayed out randomly. A recent update to the Infotainment system seems to have fixed the problem, but this has been updated before and the problem re-occurred, so we'll see how it goes this time."

"recall problem"

"Recurring problems with infotainment system only resolved by complete replacement. Works great since"

"It was a problem with the Mazda Connect touch screen which made it inoperable. Was replaced by Mazda at no cost as it was a common defect which was covered by a warranty extension program for 2014-2016 Mazda3."

"Entainment/NAV died."

"GPS totally failed. Dealer replaced under warranty"

"Live traffic is not functional"

"Map chip would not load, so GPS would not display. Dealer replaced entire in-dash unit when a chip replacement did not solve the problem"

"GPS didn't respond to voice commands. Was repaired under warranty"

"GPS system rarely seems to know where it is or going. Continually tries to update/recalculate itself - still it rarely gets the directions right."

"Was unable to connect to satellite so navigation feature was inoperable. Reported problem to dealer, They fixed it in one service call; either renewed or replaced antenna."

"The GPS stopped working. The dealer fixed it. I got a new sim card and an up-graded display. The whole system was not starting up normally and would restart in the middle of a ride."

"Too (needlessly) complex. Not intuitive at all. One needs an electrical engineering degree or at least a few hours with the manuals to begin to feel at all confident with this item."

"Navigation would take many minutes to initialize or not initialize at all. Repaired under warranty."

"The electronics at intermittent times will not allow Iphones to play a music list. It seems to connect properly but does not allow the music to play. After repeated tries, my daughter is able to get the music list to play."

"Text messages between iPhone and radio have never worked. Have also had to remove my phone from the radio completely and set up again"

"Bluetooth pairing is a total crapshoot and often as not it sounds like a skipping cd. No idea how much of this is Mazda's fault vs Motorola's (which still has my phone on Android 6.0)"

"Recurringly disconnects bluetooth. Also, when the phone is charging, car refuses to connect phone media by bluetooth."

"I use a smart phone and a tablet in car when driving long distances. the entertainment system is not compatible with Android Auto. I pair the smartphone and the tablet with the car's entertainment system. but each time, one is disconnected and I have to re-connect and select it from the menu before I can use it. it does not automatically connect both at the same time. and for some reason it seems that always the other one is connected rather than the one I want to use first."

"blue tooth drops off"

"Rear speakers never worked. Didn't notice at first because we rarely have backseat passengers and when they have they've almost never noticed or complained that they didn't get much sound. After owning the car for about 3 years, a backseat passenger said they couldn't hear the music well, so I went to the fade function and adjusted it to favor the back seat, and while the front got quieter, there was no sound from the back speakers at all. With the fade all the way back, there is no sound at all. They may never have functioned properly."

"Voice dialing only works occasionally. It responds it is learning voice"

"The voice command function on MazdaConnect disables the voice command function on my phone, making it impossible to use voice to set navigation destinations, dictate a text message, etc. The voice command works well within the MazdaConnect system, however"

"Mazda service tech said front brakes were at 3 mm inboard pad wear at 37000 miles at oil change visit. Replaced pads and rotors at 38000 at independent shop. (Mazda also used full synthetic when they changed oil. Hadn't warned me in advance that it was required."

"mechanic told us that we needed new brakes"

"Recall from Mazda addressed the issue"

"Flawed design. Overly long and sharp screw tore through from under the parking brake fabric."

"The 2016 standard pull the center lever parking brake was almost useless. The brake did not hold. There was a recall and it is much better. My husband's 2017 has a button in the center and his Parking Brakes are fantastic."

"recall covered by warranty"

"Premature failure of the parking brake due to erosion and rust; manufacturer recall"

"it was recall i do not notice any problem"

"Brake pads wore out at only 40k miles rear. They wore out sooner in the front. I drive very gently, and mostly highway."

"Due to a faulty design, the rear breaks wore down to the wear indicator in 3 years. After I had the breaks repaired, there was a recall but Mazda didn't stand behind their product and didn't refund me the repair cost. My mechanic (independent) stated he had never seen rear breaks wear that quickly."

"4 months, about 4,000 miles, after we picked up the pre-certified car we needed new front brake pads."

"Brake pad carved a deep groove in rotor, both replaced under warranty on one wheel"

"Parking Break problem, which affected front rotors and calipers. Mazda said it is recall, but never bothered to fix the real problem. I am very disappointed. I owned other Mazda cars and never had break problem within 4 years of owning it."

"At only 26,709 miles front brake pads and rotors had to be replaced because of bad pulsation. Done under warranty."

"Problem was a result of warped rotors in my other comment"

"Bought used, carfax said rotors were trued at the car dealership but car remained shaky when braking at highway speeds. Took to my mechanic and did a total brake job with new rotors, pads and brake fluid (fluid was extremely dark and needed replacement) and upgraded to ceramic pads to eliminate the problem. Mechanic's guess was that previous owner had massively overheated the rotors so much that they couldn't be re-trued safely. Rest of the car has been running like charm."

"The rear rotors had to be replaced at 36000. I have owned a number of cars and for rotors to wear out that soon is not acceptable. Was told they had noticed this in Mazda 3. My previous vehicle was a 1990 Miata and drove it in excess of 275000 miles and they were replaces 3 times"

"Warped rotors. Dealer replaced rotors and pads under warranty."

"Rotors were affected and had to be replaced due to manufacturer's recall, which they never paid for."

"One headlight quit working"

"one of the headlights quit"

"I have the high end headlights (LED) included on the Grand Touring line. But they are not as bright and do not light up as much area ahead of the car, as my 2004 3s did."

"Headlights were very weak, I finally had better ones installed, but even the new ones aren't bright enough."

"Car too easy to leave light on when leave vehicle resulting in dead battery eg. dog bumps lights on, glove box open etc."

"A design flaw, none of the door or window or lock mechanisms on the driver's side door light up. I can't see to lock the car or open/close the windows. It is not that the lights are broken, they are just not there. Mechanisms on the steering wheel also don't light up, and I can't see the switches to turn on the headlights or wipers or cruise control, etc. This was very disturbing when driving at night for the first 6 months."

"The battery in the keyless entry was dying and got the car into a strange state where it discharged the main car battery."

"Had to replace the battery in the keyfob."

"Randomly one of the two keys will not unlock the car. This has happened with each key at different times. Because my husband's key was available, his key worked when mine didn't and vice versa at another time. Both keys functioned again after the car was started and stopped with the key that was working at the time. This was not a key battery issue"

"The factory remote starter works or fails in a completely random pattern. The car is always parked 15 feet from the back door. Sometimes it starts with the remote and sometimes it doesn't. Troubleshooting the problem with the dealer service department has been ineffective"

"You have to get the pressure just right, over pressure, like when I had expansion driving on the freeway the garage would go off. I went to a tire place the first time and the dealer 2times to get the tire pressure correct"

"Body control module failed causing wipers to stop working during a snow storm - result car was undrivable."