A Word to Mazda Owners

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3 A Word to Mazda Owners Thank you for choosing a Mazda. We at Mazda design and buid vehices with compete customer satisfaction in mind. To hep ensure enjoyabe and troube-free operation of your Mazda, read this manua carefuy and foow its recommendations. An Authorized Mazda Deaer knows your vehice best. So when maintenance or service is necessary, that's the pace to go. Our nationwide network of Mazda professionas is dedicated to providing you with the best possibe service. We assure you that a of us at Mazda have an ongoing interest in your motoring peasure and in your fu satisfaction with your Mazda product. Mazda Motor Corporation HIROSHIMA, JAPAN Important Notes About This Manua Keep this manua in the gove box as a handy reference for the safe and enjoyabe use of your Mazda. Shoud you rese the vehice, eave this manua with it for the next owner. A specifications and descriptions are accurate at the time of printing. Because improvement is a constant goa at Mazda, we reserve the right to make changes in specifications at any time without notice and without obigation. Event Data Recorder This vehice is equipped with an event data recorder. In the event of a crash, this device records data reated to vehice dynamics and safety systems for a short period of time. These data can hep provide a better understanding of the circumstances in which crashes and injuries occur and ead to the designing of safer vehices. Air Conditioning and the Environment Your Mazda's genuine air conditioner is fied with HFC134a (R134a), a refrigerant that has been found not to damage the earth's ozone ayer. If the air conditioner does not operate propery, consut an Authorized Mazda Deaer. Pease be aware that this manua appies to a modes, equipment and options. As a resut, you may find some expanations for equipment not instaed on your vehice Mazda Motor Corporation Printed in Japan Apr. 2005(Print1)

4 How to Use This Manua We want to hep you get the most driving peasure from your vehice. Your owner's manua, when read from cover to cover, can do that in many ways. Iustrations compement the words of the manua to best expain how to enjoy your Mazda. By reading your manua, you can find out about the features, important safety information, and driving under various road conditions. The symbo beow in this manua means Do not do this or Do not et this happen. A provides information and sometimes suggests how to make better use of your vehice. The symbo beow, ocated on some parts of the vehice, indicates that this manua contains information reated to the part. Pease refer to the manua for a detaied expanation. Index: A good pace to start is the Index, an aphabetica isting of a information in your manua. You' find severa WARNINGs, CAUTIONs, and s in the manua. WARNING A WARNING indicates a situation in which serious injury or death coud resut if the warning is ignored. CAUTION A CAUTION indicates a situation in which bodiy injury or damage to your vehice, or both, coud resut if the caution is ignored.

5 Tabe of Contents Your Vehice at a Gance Interior, exterior views and part identification of your Mazda. Essentia Safety Equipment Use of safety equipment, incuding seats, seat bet system, SRS air bags and chid-restraint systems. Knowing Your Mazda Expanation of basic operations and contros; opening/cosing and adjustment of various parts. Before Driving Your Mazda Important information about driving your Mazda. Driving Your Mazda Expanation of instruments and contros. Interior Comfort Use of various features for drive comfort, incuding air-conditioning and audio system. In Case of an Emergency Hepfu information on what to do in an emergency. Maintenance and Care How to keep your Mazda in top condition. Customer Information Important consumer information incuding warranties and add-on equipment. Specifications Technica information about your Mazda Index 11 Navigation System

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7 1 Your Vehice at a Gance Interior, exterior views and part identification of your Mazda. Dashboard and Interior Overview Exterior Overview

8 Your Vehice at a Gance Dashboard and Interior Overview * * * The equipment and instaation position varies according to mode and grade. *Refer to Navigation System at the end of the manua. 1-2

9 Your Vehice at a Gance Dashboard and Interior Overview Power window ock switch... page 3-14 Power window switches... page 3-13 Power door ock switch... page 3-9 Hood reease hande... page 3-16 Lighting contro/turn signas... page 5-43 Instrument custer... page 5-27 Air bags... page 2-38 Hazard warning fasher switch... page 5-51 Wiper and washer ever... page 5-46 Information dispay... page 6-54 Audio system... page 6-17 Cimate contro system... page 6-2 Accessory socket... page 6-63 Center consoe... page 6-59 Parking brake... page 5-5 AT shift ever (Sport AT)... page 5-11 MT shift ever... page 5-9 Cruise contro switches... page 5-17 Ignition switch... page 5-2 Steering coumn reease ever... page 3-24 Audio contro switch... page 6-47 Remote fue-fier id reease... page 3-15 Outside mirror switch... page 3-24 Interior ight... page 6-51 Seat bet... page 2-14 Sunvisor... page 6-51 Map ight... page 6-52 Rearview mirror... page 3-25 Vanity mirror... page 6-51 Gove box... page 6-59 Front seats... page 2-2 Cup hoder... page 6-57 Second-row seat... page 2-5 Third-row seat... page

10 Your Vehice at a Gance Exterior Overview The equipment and instaation position varies according to mode and grade. 1-4

11 Your Vehice at a Gance Exterior Overview Rear window defroster... page 5-50 Rear wiper bade... page 8-25 Light bubs... page 8-34 Liftgate... page 3-11 Antenna... page 6-17 Fue-fier id... page 3-15 Siding doors... page 3-9 Power windows... page 3-13 Outside mirror... page 3-24 Chid safety ocks... page 3-10 Tires... page 8-29 Hood... page 3-16 Windshied wiper bades... page 8-23 Moonroof... page 3-17 Doors and keys... page

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13 2 Essentia Safety Equipment Use of safety equipment, incuding seats, seat bet system, SRS air bags and chid-restraint systems. Seats Front Seats Second-Row Seats Third-Row Seat Seat Bet Systems Seat Bet Precautions Seat Bets Front Seat Bet Pretensioner and Load Limiting Systems Seat Bet Extender Seat Bet Warning Light/Beep Chid Restraint Chid Restraint Precautions Instaing Chid-Restraint Systems LATCH Chid-Restraint Systems SRS Air Bags Suppementa Restraint Systems (SRS) Precautions Suppementa Restraint System Components How the Air Bags Work

14 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats Front Seats WARNING Modification of the Front Seats: Modifying or repacing the front seats such as repacing the uphostery or oosening any bots is dangerous. The front seats contain air bag components essentia to the suppementa restraint system. Such modifications coud damage the suppementa restraint system and resut in serious injury. Consut an Authorized Mazda Deaer if there is any need to remove or reinsta the front seats. Damaged Front Seats: Driving with damaged front seats is dangerous. A coision, even one not strong enough to infate the air bags, coud damage the front seats which contain essentia air bag components. If there was a subsequent coision, the air bag may not depoy which coud ead to injuries. Aways have an Authorized Mazda Deaer inspect the front seats, front seat bet pretensioners and air bags after a coision. Securing the Seats: Adjustabe seats and seatbacks that are not securey ocked are dangerous. In a sudden stop or coision, the seat or seatback coud move, causing injury. Make sure the adjustabe components of the seat are ocked in pace by attempting to side the seat forward and backward and rocking the seatback. qseat Side WARNING Driver's Seat Adjustment: Adjusting the driver's seat whie the vehice is moving is dangerous. The driver coud ose contro of the vehice and have an accident. Adjust the driver's seat ony when the vehice is stopped. To move a seat forward or backward, raise the ever and side the seat to the desired position and reease the ever. Make sure the ever returns to its origina position and the seat is ocked in pace by attempting to push it forward and backward. 2-2

15 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats qseat Recine WARNING Recining: Sitting in a recined position whie the vehice is moving is dangerous because you don't get the fu protection from seat bets. During sudden braking or a coision, you can side under the ap bet and suffer serious interna injuries. For maximum protection, sit we back and upright. Unocked Seatback: The seatback pays an important roe in your protection in a vehice. Leaving the seatback unocked is dangerous as it can aow passengers to be ejected or thrown around and baggage to strike occupants in a sudden stop or coision, resuting in severe injury. After adjusting the seatback at any time, even when there are no other passengers, rock the seatback to make sure it is ocked in pace. To change the seatback ange, ean forward sighty whie raising the ever. Then ean back to the desired position and reease the ever. Make sure the ever returns to its origina position and the seatback is ocked in pace by attempting to push it forward and backward. CAUTION When returning a rear-recined seatback to its upright position, make sure you hod onto the seatback with your other hand whie operating the ever. If the seatback is not supported, it wi fip forward suddeny and coud cause injury. 2-3

16 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats qheight Adjustment (Driver's Seat) By moving the seat ever up or down, the seat bottom height can be adjusted. Up Down qlumbar Support Adjustment (Driver's Seat) To adjust the umbar support, pu the ever forward. qhead Restraint WARNING Head Restraints Adjustment: Driving with the head restraints adjusted too ow or removed is dangerous. With no support behind your head, your neck coud be seriousy injured in a coision. Aways drive with the head restraints inserted when seats are being used and make sure they are propery adjusted. To raise a head restraint, pu it up to the desired position. To ower the head restraint, press the stopcatch reease, then push the head restraint down. Adjust the head restraint so that the top is even with the top of the passenger's ears, never the passenger's neck. 2-4

17 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats qarmrest (Driver's Seat) The armrest can be used or paced upright. WARNING Positioning the Shouder Bet Over the Armrest: Positioning the shouder portion of a front seat bet over the armrest is dangerous as it cannot provide adequate protection in a coision and coud resut in serious injuries. Never position the shouder portion of a front seat bet over the armrest. Second-Row Seats WARNING Stacking Cargo: Stacking uggage or other cargo higher than the seatback is dangerous. During a sudden stop or coision, objects can fy around and become projecties that coud hit and injure passengers. Don't stack cargo higher than the seatback. Not Securing Luggage and Cargo: Not securing cargo whie driving is dangerous as it coud move or be crushed during sudden braking or a coision and cause injury. Make sure uggage and cargo is secured before driving. Securing Seats: Adjustabe seats that are not securey atched are dangerous. In a sudden stop or coision, the seat or seatback coud move, causing injury. Make sure the adjustabe components of the seat are ocked in pace by attempting to side the seat forward and backward and rocking the seatback. Seat Adjustment: Adjusting the seat whie the vehice is moving is dangerous. Sudden braking or a coision coud cause serious injury. Adjust the seat ony when the vehice is stopped. 2-5

18 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats WARNING Unocked Seatback: The seatback pays an important roe in your protection in a vehice. Leaving the seatback unocked is dangerous as it can aow passengers to be ejected or thrown around and baggage to strike occupants in a sudden stop or coision, resuting in severe injury. After adjusting the seatback at any time, even when there are no other passengers, rock the seatback to make sure it is ocked in pace. Passenger on the Foded Seatback: Driving with a passenger on the foded seatback is dangerous. Aowing a chid to sit on the foded seatback whie the vehice is moving is particuary dangerous. During sudden braking or even a minor coision, a chid not restrained in a proper seat or chid-restraint system and seat bet coud be thrown forward, back or even out of the car resuting in serious injuries or death. The chid in the cargo area coud be thrown into other occupants and cause serious injury. Never aow a passenger to sit or stand on the foded seatback whie the vehice is moving. The second-row seats cannot be removed. When returning a second-row seat to its origina position, aso repace the seat bet to its norma position. Verify that the seat bet pus out and retracts. qseat Side To move the seat forward or backward, raise the ever and side the seat to the desired position and reease the ever. Make sure the ever returns to its origina position and the seat is ocked in pace by attempting to push it forward and backward. 2-6

19 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats qseat Recine WARNING Recining: Sitting in a recined position whie the vehice is moving is dangerous because you don't get the fu protection from seat bets. During sudden braking or a coision, you can side under the ap bet and suffer serious interna injuries. For maximum protection, sit we back and upright. Recining the Second-Row Seatback: Recining the second-row seatback when the third-row seat is occupied is dangerous.because the cearance in the third-row seat is imited, the occupants in the third-row seat can hurt themseves seriousy on the recined second-row seatback. Don't recine the second-row seatback when the third-row seat is occupied. To change the seatback ange, ean forward sighty whie raising the ever. Then ean back to the desired position and reease the ever. Make sure the ever returns to its origina position and the seatback is ocked in pace by attempting to push it forward and backward. CAUTION When returning a rear-recined seatback to its upright position, make sure you hod onto the seatback with your other hand whie operating the ever. If the seatback is not supported, it wi fip forward suddeny and coud cause injury. qhead Restraint WARNING Head Restraints Adjustment: Driving with the head restraints adjusted too ow or removed is dangerous. With no support behind your head, your neck coud be seriousy injured in a coision. Aways drive with the head restraints inserted when seats are being used and make sure they are propery adjusted. 2-7

20 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats Height adjustment To raise a head restraint, pu it up to the desired position. To ower the head restraint, press the stopcatch reease, then push the head restraint down. WARNING Positioning the Shouder Bet Over the Armrest: Positioning the shouder portion of a second-row seat bet over the armrest is dangerous as it cannot provide adequate protection in a coision and coud resut in serious injuries. Never position the shouder portion of a second-row seat bet over the armrest. qthird-row Seat Access Adjust the head restraint so that the top is even with the top of the passenger's ears, never the passenger's neck. Passenger access To reach the third-row seat, raise the ever of the second-row seat. The seatback wi tit forward. qarmrest The armrest can be used or paced upright. When finished entering or unoading, return the seatback to its upright position. 2-8

21 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats Passenger exiting Pu the bet and fod the seatback forward. The seatback wi tit forward. 4. Pu the strap and ift the end of the seat-bottom up and forward. When finished exiting or unoading, return the seatback to its upright position. qfoding the Second-Row Seats To create a fat uggage compartment space, ift the seat-bottoms of the secondrow seats and fod the seatbacks forward. Foding the seatbacks 1. Insert the second-row outboard seat bets in the retainers. 5. If the armrest and storage box are in the position for use, store them. Refer to Storage Box on page Raise the ever and fod the seatback forward. 2. Move the seat a the way back. 3. Lower the head restraint a the way down (page 2-7). 2-9

22 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats CAUTION When foding a seatback, aways hod onto the seatback with your other hand whie operating the ever. If the seatback is not supported, it wi fip forward suddeny and coud cause injury. When foding the seatback of the right second-row seat, make sure the storage box is stowed. If the storage box is not stowed, it coud be damaged. Returning seatbacks to their origina positions 1. Return the seatback to its origina position whie raising its ever. Make sure the seatback is secured by attempting to ighty move it forward and back. To create a fat uggage compartment space from the rear of the vehice to the back of the front seats, fod the secondrow and third-row seats (page 2-12). 2. Return the seat-bottom to its origina position and secure it. After returning the seat-bottom to its origina position, make sure the seat-bottom is secured by attempting to ighty move it up and down. 2-10

23 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats Third-Row Seat WARNING Stacking Cargo: Stacking uggage or other cargo higher than the seatback is dangerous. During a sudden stop or coision, objects can fy around and become projecties that coud hit and injure passengers. Don't stack cargo higher than the seatback. Not Securing Luggage and Cargo: Not securing cargo whie driving is dangerous as it coud move or be crushed during sudden braking or a coision and cause injury. Make sure uggage and cargo is secured before driving. Unocked Seatback: The seatback pays an important roe in your protection in a vehice. Leaving the seatback unocked is dangerous as it can aow passengers to be ejected or thrown around and baggage to strike occupants in a sudden stop or coision, resuting in severe injury. After returning the seatback at any time, even when there are no other passengers, rock the seatback to make sure it is ocked in pace. WARNING Passenger on the Foded Seatback: Driving with a passenger on the foded seatback is dangerous. Aowing a chid to sit up on the foded seatback whie the vehice is moving is particuary dangerous. In a sudden stop or even a minor coision, a chid not in a proper seat or chid-restraint system and seat bet coud be thrown forward, back or even out of the vehice resuting in serious injuries or death. The chid in the baggage area coud be thrown into other occupants and cause serious injury. Never aow a passenger to sit or stand on the foded seatback whie the vehice is moving. The third-row seat cannot be removed. When returning a third -row seat to its origina position, aso repace the seat bet to its norma position. Verify that the seat bet pus out and retracts. 2-11

24 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats qhead Restraint WARNING Head Restraints Adjustment: Driving with the head restraints adjusted too ow or removed is dangerous. With no support behind your head, your neck coud be seriousy injured in a coision. Aways drive with the head restraints inserted when seats are being used and make sure they are propery adjusted. qspit-foding the Third-Row Seatback To create a fat uggage compartment space, fod the seatbacks forward. To fod third-row seat 1. Side the second-row seat a the way forward. 2. Insert the third-row outboard seat bets in the retainers. Height adjustment To raise a head restraint, pu it up to the desired position. To ower the head restraint, press the stopcatch reease, then push the head restraint down. 3. Lower the head restraint a the way down (page 2-12). 4. Pu the strap and fod the seatback forward. Adjust the head restraint so that the top is even with the top of the passenger's ears, never the passenger's neck. 2-12

25 Essentia Safety Equipment Seats To create a fat uggage compartment space from the rear of the vehice to the back of the front seats, fod the secondrow and third-row seats (page 2-9). To return third-row seat to its origina position Return the seatback to its origina position whie puing its strap. Make sure the seatback is secured by attempting to ighty move it forward and back. 2-13

26 Essentia Safety Equipment Seat Bet Systems Seat Bet Precautions Seat bets hep to decrease the possibiity of severe injury during accidents and sudden stops. Mazda recommends that the driver and a passengers aways wear seat bets. A of the seat bet retractors are designed to keep the ap/shouder bets out of the way when not in use. The driver's seat bet has no provisions for chid-restraint systems and has ony an emergency ocking mode. The driver may wear it comfortaby, and it wi ock during a coision. However, the front passenger's seat and a rear ap/shouder bet retractors operate in two modes: emergency ocking mode, and for chid-restraint systems, automatic ocking mode. Whie we recommend you put a chidren in the rear seats, if you must use the front passenger seat for a chid, side the front passenger seat as far back as possibe and make sure any chid-restraint system is secured propery. 2-14

27 Essentia Safety Equipment Seat Bet Systems WARNING Not Wearing Seat Bets: Not wearing a seat bet is extremey dangerous. During a coision, occupants not wearing seat bets coud hit someone or things inside the vehice or even be thrown out of the vehice. They coud be seriousy injured or even kied. In the same coision, occupants wearing seat bets woud be much safer. Aways wear your seat bet and make sure a occupants are propery restrained. Seat Bet Damaged During an Accident: Using a damaged seat bet is dangerous. An accident coud damage the bet webbing of the seat bet in use. A damaged seat bet cannot provide adequate protection in a coision. Front air bags and pretensioners work together, but whether a front seat was occupied or not, if any air bag depoyed and whether a seat bet pretensioner depoyed or not, a front seat bets and air bags must be inspected and repaced if necessary. Have an Authorized Mazda Deaer inspect a seat bet systems in use during an accident before they are used again. Twisted Seat Bets: Twisted seat bets are dangerous. In a coision, the fu width of the bet isn't avaiabe to absorb the impact. This puts more force on the bones beneath the bet, which coud cause serious injury or death. Don't wear twisted seat bets. One Bet, One Passenger: Using one seat bet for more than one person at a time is dangerous. A seat bet used in this way can't spread the impact forces propery and the two passengers coud be crushed together and seriousy injured or even kied. Never use one bet for more than one person at a time. CAUTION Bet retraction may become difficut if the bets and rings are soied, so try to keep them cean. Ring 2-15

28 Essentia Safety Equipment Seat Bet Systems qpregnant Women and Persons with Serious Medica Conditions Pregnant women shoud wear seat bets. Ask your doctor for specific recommendations. The ap bet shoud be worn SNUGLY AND AS LOW AS POSSIBLE OVER THE HIPS. The shouder bet shoud be worn across your shouder propery, but never across the stomach area. Persons with serious medica conditions aso shoud wear seat bets. Check with your doctor for any specia instructions regarding specific medica conditions. qemergency Locking Mode If the bet has fuy retracted, it wi aways be in the emergency ocking mode. In the emergency ocking mode, the bet remains comfortabe on the occupant and the retractor wi ock in position during a coision. qautomatic Locking Mode Aways use the automatic ocking mode to keep the chid-restraint system from shifting to an unsafe position in the event of an accident. To get the seat bet into the automatic ocking mode, pu it a the way out and connect it as instructed on the chid-restraint system. It wi retract down to the chid-restraint system and stay ocked on it. See the section on chid restraint (page 2-24). 2-16

29 Essentia Safety Equipment Seat Bet Systems Seat Bets qfastening the Seat Bets 1. Grasp the tongue. 2. Sowy pu out the ap/shouder bet. Bet Tongue WARNING Positioning the Shouder Portion of the Seat Bet: Improper positioning of the shouder portion of the seat bet is dangerous. Aways make sure the shouder portion of the seat bet is positioned across your shouder and near your neck, but never under your arm, on your neck, or on your upper arm. 4. Make sure the shouder bet is snugy fitted against your body. 3. Insert the tongue into the bucke unti you hear a cick. Keep ow on hip bone Take up sack Tongue Too high WARNING Bucke Positioning the Lap Portion of the Seat Bet: The ap portion of the seat bet worn too high is dangerous. In a coision, this woud concentrate the impact force directy on the abdomina area, causing serious injury. Wear the ap portion of the bet snugy and as ow as possibe. 2-17

30 Essentia Safety Equipment Seat Bet Systems qunfastening the Seat Bets Depress the button on the bucke. qshouder Bet Adjuster í Adjust the height of the shouder bet if the seat bet touches your neck, or if it crosses your arm instead of your shouder. To raise the shouder bet adjuster, push the adjuster up. To ower the shouder bet adjuster, pu the knob and side it down. Make sure the adjuster is ocked. Button If a bet does not fuy retract, inspect it for kinks and twists. If it is sti not retracting propery, have it inspected at an Authorized Mazda Deaer. To secure the outboard-rear seat bets when not in use, insert the bets in their seat bet retainers. WARNING Positioning the Shouder Portion of the Seat Bet: Improper positioning of the shouder portion of the seat bet is dangerous. Aways make sure the shouder portion of the seat bet is positioned across your shouder and near your neck, but never under your arm, on your neck, or on your upper arm. Seat bet retainer 2-18 í Some modes.

31 Essentia Safety Equipment Seat Bet Systems Front Seat Bet Pretensioner and Load Limiting Systems For optimum protection, the driver and front passenger seat bets are equipped with pretensioner and oad imiting systems. In moderate or greater fronta or nearfronta accidents, the front air bag and pretensioner systems depoy simutaneousy. The pretensioners take up sack in the front seat bets as the air bags are expanding. The seat bet pretensioner system cannot provide adequate protection in an accident if the seat bet is not fastened propery. The oad imiting system reeases bet webbing in a controed manner to reduce bet force on the occupant's chest. WARNING Incorrect Positioning of the Driver and Front Passenger Seat Bets: Incorrect positioning of the driver and passenger seat bets is dangerous. Without proper positioning, the pretensioner and oad imiting systems cannot provide adequate protection in an accident and this coud resut in serious injury. Wear seat bets ony as recommended in this owner's manua (page 2-17). WARNING Expended Seat Bet Pretensioners: One or both front air bags may depoy, and the corresponding pretensioner(s) wi aso depoy at the same time. Use of front seat bets with the pretensioner system expended is dangerous. Like the air bags, the seat bet pretensioners wi ony function once. After they are expended, they wi not function again and must be repaced immediatey. If the seat bet pretensioners are not repaced, the risk of injury in a coision wi increase. Aways have an Authorized Mazda Deaer inspect the seat bet pretensioners and air bags after any coision. Expended seat bet pretensioners and air bags must be repaced after any coision which caused them to depoy Additionay, the oad imiter wi ony imit oads on the chest once in a coision and is another reason to have the front seat bets inspected. Modification or Testing of the Pretensioner System: Modifying the components or wiring of the pretensioner system, incuding the use of eectronic testing devices is dangerous. You coud accidentay activate it or make it inoperabe which woud prevent it from activating in an accident. The occupants or repairers coud be seriousy injured. Never modify the components or wiring, or use eectronic testing devices on the pretensioner system. 2-19

32 Essentia Safety Equipment Seat Bet Systems WARNING Pretensioner System Disposa: Improper disposa of the pretensioner system or a vehice with nondeactivated pretensioners is dangerous. Uness a safety procedures are foowed, injury coud resut. Ask an Authorized Mazda Deaer how to safey dispose of the pretensioner system or how to scrap a pretensioner-equipped vehice. The pretensioner system wi ony activate in a moderate or greater fronta or near-fronta coision. It wi not activate in most roovers, side or rear impacts. Some smoke (non-toxic gas) wi be reeased when the air bags and pretensioners depoy. This does not indicate a fire. This gas normay has no effect on occupants, however, those with sensitive skin may experience ight skin irritation. If residue from the depoyment of the air bags or the front pretensioner system gets on the skin or in the eyes, wash it off as soon as possibe. qair Bag/Front Seat Bet Pretensioner System Warning Light If the air bag/front seat bet pretensioner system is norma, the warning ight iuminates when the ignition switch is turned to the ON position or after the engine is cranked. After about 6 seconds it goes out. A system mafunction is indicated when the warning ight constanty fashes, constanty iuminates or doesn't iuminate at a when the ignition switch is turned to the ON position. If any of these occur, consut an Authorized Mazda Deaer as soon as possibe. The system may not work in an accident. WARNING Sef-Servicing the Air Bag/ Pretensioner Systems: Sef-servicing or tampering with the systems is dangerous. An air bag/ pretensioner coud accidentay activate or become disabed. This coud cause serious injuries. Never tamper with the systems and aways have an Authorized Mazda Deaer perform a servicing and repairs. 2-20

33 Essentia Safety Equipment Seat Bet Systems Seat Bet Extender If your seat bet is not ong enough, even when fuy extended, a seat bet extender may be avaiabe to you at no charge from your Authorized Mazda Deaer. This extender wi be ony for you and for the particuar vehice and seat. Even if it pugs into other seat bets, it may not hod in the critica moment of a crash. When ordering an extender, ony order one that provides the necessary additiona ength to fasten the seat bet propery. Pease contact your Authorized Mazda Deaer for more information. WARNING Unnecessary Use of an Extender: Using a seat bet extender when not necessary is dangerous. The seat bet wi be too ong and not fit propery. In an accident, the seat bet wi not provide adequate protection and you coud be seriousy injured. Ony use the extender when it is required to fasten the seat bet propery. WARNING Using an Extender That is Too Long: Using an extender that is too ong is dangerous. The seat bet wi not fit propery. In an accident, the seat bet wi not provide adequate protection and you coud be seriousy injured. Don't use the extender or choose one shorter in ength if the distance between the extender's bucke and the center of the user's body is ess than 15cm (6 in). When not in use, remove the seat bet extender and store it in the vehice. If the seat bet extender is eft connected, the seat bet extender might get damaged as it wi not retract with the rest of the seat bet and can easiy fa out of the door when not in use and be damaged the seat bet warning ight wi not iuminate and function propery. Using an Improper Extender: Using a seat bet extender that is for another person or a different vehice or seat is dangerous. The seat bet wi not provide adequate protection and the user coud be seriousy injured in an accident. Ony use the extender provided for you and for the particuar vehice and seat. NEVER use the extender in a different vehice or seat. 2-21

34 Essentia Safety Equipment Seat Bet Systems Seat Bet Warning Light/Beep The seat bet warning ight iuminates and a beep sound wi be heard if the driver's seat bet is not fastened when the ignition switch is turned to the ON position. Conditions of operation Condition The driver's seat bet is not fastened when the ignition switch is turned to the ON position. The driver's seat bet is fastened whie the warning ight and the beep sound are activated. The driver's seat bet is fastened before the ignition switch is turned to the ON position. Resut The warning ight fashes and a beep sound wi be heard for about 6 seconds. The warning ight turns off and the beep sound stops. The warning ight wi not iuminate and the beep sound wi not be heard. Driver's seat The bet minder is a suppementa warning to the seat bet warning function. If the driver's seat bet is not fastened when the ignition switch is turned to the ON position, the warning ight/beep operates to give you further reminders according to the chart beow. Condition Seat bet Indicator Beep : Fastened : Unfastened : Iuminated : Fashing : Beep Between 0 20 km/h (0 12 mph) Vehice speed 20 km/h (12 mph) or more Once the beep sound is heard, it continues sounding even if the vehice speed owers to 20 km/h (12 mph) or ess unti the seatbet is fastened or the beep sound period (90 seconds) has passed. qbet Minder The bet minder can be deactivated. Consut an Authorized Mazda Deaer to deactivate and restore the seat bet minder. 2-22

35 Essentia Safety Equipment Seat Bet Systems Front passenger seat The seat bet warning ight/beep reminds the front passenger to fasten the seat bet. If the front passenger seat bet is not fastened when the ignition switch is turned to the ON position, the warning ight/beep operates to give you further reminders according to the chart beow. Condition Seat bet (Driver) Seat bet (Passenger) Indicator Between 0 20 km/h (0 12 mph) Vehice speed 20 km/h (12 mph) or more To aow the front passenger seat weight sensor to function propery, do not pace and sit on an additiona seat cushion on the front passenger seat. The sensor may not function propery because the additiona seat cushion coud cause sensor interference. Packages or pets on the passenger seat might give you a fase warning. If you pace heavy uggage of more than approximatey 15 kg (33 b) on the front passenger seat, the warning ight/beep operates. Beep : Fastened : Unfastened : Iuminated : Fashing : Beep Once the beep sound is heard, it continues sounding even if the vehice speed owers to 20 km/h (12 mph) or ess unti the seatbet is fastened or the beep sound period (90 seconds) has passed. 2-23

36 Essentia Safety Equipment Chid Restraint Chid Restraint Precautions Mazda strongy urges the use of chid-restraint systems for chidren sma enough to use them. You are required by aw to use a chid-restraint system for chidren in the U.S. and Canada. Check your oca and state or provincia aws for specific requirements regarding the safety of chidren riding in your vehice. Whatever chid-restraint system you consider, pease pick the appropriate one for the age and size of the chid, obey the aw and foow the instructions that come with the individua chid-restraint system. A chid who has outgrown chid-restraint systems shoud sit in the rear and use seat bets, both ap and shouder. If the shouder bet crosses the neck or face, move the chid coser to the center of the vehice. Statistics confirm that the rear seats are the best pace for a chidren up to 12 years of age, and more so with a suppementa restraint system (air bags). A rear-facing chid-restraint system shoud NEVER be used on the front seat with the air bag system activated. The front passenger's seat is aso the east preferred seat for other chid-restraint systems. To reduce the chance of injuries caused by depoyment of the front passenger air bag, the front passenger seat weight sensors work as a part of the suppementa restraint system. This system deactivates the front passenger front and side air bags and aso the front passenger seat bet pretensioner system when the tota seated weight on the front passenger seat is ess than approximatey 30 kg (66 b). When an infant or sma chid sits on the front passenger seat, the system shuts off the front passenger front and side air bags and seat bet pretensioner system, so make sure the front passenger air bag deactivation indicator ight iuminates. Even if the front passenger air bag is shut off, Mazda strongy recommends that chidren be propery restrained and chid-restraint systems of a kinds are propery secured on the rear seats which are the best pace for chidren. For more detais, refer to Front passenger seat weight sensors (page 2-46). 2-24

37 Essentia Safety Equipment Chid Restraint WARNING Proper Size of Chid-Restraint System: For effective protection in vehice accidents and sudden stops, a chid must be propery restrained using a seat bet or chid-restraint system depending on age and size. If not, the chid coud be seriousy injured or even kied in an accident. Foow the Manufacturer's Instructions and Aways Keep the Chid-Restraint System Bucked Down: An unsecured chid-restraint system is dangerous. In a sudden stop or a coision it coud move causing serious injury or death to the chid or other occupants. Make sure any chid-restraint system is propery secured in pace according to the chid-restraint system manufacturer's instructions. When not in use, remove it from the vehice or fasten it with a seat bet, or atch it down to BOTH LATCH ower anchors for LATCH chid-restraint systems and the corresponding tether anchor. Hoding a Chid Whie the Vehice is Moving: Hoding a chid in your arms whie the vehice is moving is extremey dangerous. No matter how strong the person may be, he or she cannot hod onto a chid in a sudden stop or coision and it coud resut in serious injury or death to the chid or other occupants. Even in a moderate accident, the chid may be exposed to air bag forces that coud resut in serious injury or death to the chid, or the chid may be sammed into the adut, injuring the adut. Aways secure a chid in a proper chid-restraint system. Rear-Facing Chid-Restraint System: Rear-facing chid-restraint systems on the front seat are particuary dangerous. The chid-restraint system can be hit by a depoying air bag and moved vioenty backward resuting in serious injury or death to the chid. Even though you may fee assured that a front passenger air bag wi not depoy based on the fact that the front passenger air bag deactivation indicator ight iuminates, NEVER use a rear-facing chid-restraint system in the front seat with an air bag that coud depoy even in a moderate coision. 2-25

38 Essentia Safety Equipment Chid Restraint WARNING Front Passenger Seat Position: A front-facing chid-restraint system shoud ony be put on the front seat when it is unavoidabe. Aways move the seat as far back as possibe, because the force of a depoying air bag coud cause serious injury or death to the chid. Seating Chidren in a Chid-Restraint System on the Front Passenger Seat: If your vehice is equipped with front passenger seat weight sensors, the vehice is aso equipped with an air bag deactivation indicator ight (page 2-33). Even with the front passenger seat weight sensors, if you must use the front passenger seat for chidren, seating a chid in a chid-restraint system on the front passenger seat under the foowing conditions increases the danger of the front passenger air bag depoying and coud resut in serious injury or death to the chid. The tota seated weight of the chid with the chid-restraint system on the front passenger seat is approximatey 30 kg (66 b) or more. Luggage or other items are paced on the seat with the chid in the chid-restraint system. A rear passenger or uggage push or pu down on the front passenger seatback. A rear passenger puts their feet on the front seat rais. Luggage or other items are paced on the seatback or hung on the assist grip, head restraint or armrest. The seat is washed. Liquids are spied on the seat. The front passenger seat is moved backward, pushing into uggage or other items paced behind it. The front passenger seatback contacts the second-row seat. Luggage or other items are paced between the front passenger seat and driver seat. Any accessories which might increase the tota seated weight on the front passenger seat are attached to the front passenger seat. The designated positions with seat bets on the rear seats are the safest paces for chidren. Aways use seat bets and chid restraints. 2-26

39 Essentia Safety Equipment Chid Restraint WARNING Chidren and Seating Position with Side and Curtain Air Bags: Aowing anyone to ean over or against the side window, the area of the front passenger seat, front and rear window piars and the roof edge aong both sides from which the side and curtain air bags depoy, even if a chid-restraint system is used, is dangerous. If the vehice is equipped with side and curtain air bags, the impact of infation coud cause serious injury or death to the chid. Furthermore, eaning over or against the front door coud bock the side and curtain air bags and eiminate the advantages of suppementa protection. With the front air bag and the additiona side air bag that comes out of the front seat, the rear seat is aways a better ocation for chidren. Do not aow a chid to ean over or against the side window, even if the chid is seated in a chid-restraint system. One Bet, One Passenger: Using one seat bet for more than one person at a time is dangerous. A seat bet used in this way can't spread the impact forces propery and the two passengers coud be crushed together and seriousy injured or even kied. Never use one bet for more than one person at a time. CAUTION A seat bet or chid-restraint system can become very hot in a cosed vehice during warm weather. To avoid burning yoursef or a chid, check them before you or your chid touches them. Your Mazda is equipped with LATCH ower anchors for attachment of speciay designed LATCH chid-restraint systems in the rear seats. When using these anchors to secure a chid-restraint system, refer to LATCH Chid-Restraint Systems (page 2-35). 2-27

40 Essentia Safety Equipment Chid Restraint Instaing Chid-Restraint Systems Accident statistics revea that a chid is safer in the rear seats. The front passenger's seat is ceary the worst choice for any chid under 12, and with rearfacing chid-restraint systems it is ceary unsafe due to air bags. Some chid-restraint systems now come with tethers and therefore must be instaed on the seats that take tethers to be effective. In your Mazda, tethered chid-restraint systems can ony be accommodated in the four positions on the rear seats. Even if your vehice is equipped with the front passenger air bag cut-off system (page 2-46), which automaticay deactivates the front passenger air bag, a rear seat is the safest pace for a chid of any age or size. Some chid-restraint systems aso empoy speciay designed LATCH attachments; refer to LATCH Chid-Restraint Systems (page 2-35). WARNING Tethered Chid-Restraint Systems Work Ony on Tether-Equipped Rear Seats: Instaation of a tether equipped chidrestraint system in the front passenger's seat defeats the safety design of the system and wi resut in an increased chance of serious injury if the chid-restraint system goes forward without benefit of being tethered. Pace tether equipped chid-restraint systems where there are tether anchors. qrear Seats Chid-Restraint System Instaation Foow these instructions when using a chid-restraint system, uness you are attaching a LATCH-equipped chidrestraint system to the rear LATCH ower anchors. Refer to LATCH Chid- Restraint Systems (page 2-35). Foow the chid-restraint system manufacturer's instructions carefuy. If you are not sure whether you have a LATCH system or tether, check in the chid-restraint system manufacturer's instructions and foow them accordingy. Depending on the type of chid-restraint system, it may not empoy seat bets which are in automatic ocking mode. 2-28

41 Essentia Safety Equipment Chid Restraint 1. If the seat in which you insta a chidrestraint system has a seat side function, side the seat as far back as possibe. 2. Make sure the seatback is securey atched by pushing it back unti it is fuy ocked. 3. Secure the chid-restraint system with the ap portion of the ap/shouder bet. See the manufacturer's instructions on the chid-restraint system for bet routing instructions. 4. To get the retractor into the automatic ocking mode, pu the shouder bet portion of the seat bet unti the entire ength of the bet is out of the retractor. 5. Push the chid-restraint system firmy into the vehice seat. Be sure the bet retracts as snugy as possibe. Cicking from the retractor wi be heard during retraction if the system is in the automatic ocking mode. If the bet does not ock the seat down tight, repeat this step. Inspect this function before each use of the chid-restraint system. You shoud not be abe to pu the shouder bet out of the retractor whie the system is in the automatic ocking mode. When you remove the chid-restraint system, be sure the bet fuy retracts to return the system to emergency ocking mode before occupants use the seat bets. 6. If your chid-restraint system requires the use of a tether strap, hook and tighten the tether strap after raising the head restraint (Second-row seats) by foowing the manufacturer's instructions. 2-29

42 Essentia Safety Equipment Chid Restraint Anchor bracket ocation (Second-row seats) Tether strap position (Third-row seat) Tether strap Marking Tether strap position (Second-row seats) Tether strap Anchor bracket Anchor bracket ocation (Third-row seat) Anchor bracket Marking WARNING Chid-Restraint Tether Usage: Using the tether or tether anchor to secure anything but a chid-restraint system is dangerous. This coud weaken or damage the tether or tether anchor and resut in injury. Use the tether and tether anchor ony for a chid-restraint system. Incorrect Attachment of the Tether Strap (Second-row seats): Routing the tether strap on top of the head restraint is dangerous. In a coision, the tether strap coud side off the head restraint, and oosen the chid-restraint system. The chidrestraint system coud move which may resut in death or injury to the chid. Aways route the tether strap between the head restraint posts. 2-30

43 Essentia Safety Equipment Chid Restraint WARNING Incorrect Attachment of the Tether Strap (Third-row seat): Routing the tether strap between the head restraint posts is dangerous as it coud damage or weaker the seatback, resuting in the chid-restraint system not being correcty secured. In a coision, the chid-restraint system coud shift or oosen which may resut in death or injury to the chid. Aways route the tether strap over the head restraint. qif You Must Use the Front Seat for Chidren If you cannot put a chidren in the rear seats, at east put the smaest chidren in the rear and be sure the argest chid up front uses the shouder bet over the shouder. NEVER put a rear-facing chid-restraint system on the front passenger seat, even with a seat weight sensor equipped vehice. This seat is aso not set up for tethered chid-restraint systems, put them in one of the rear seat positions set up with tether anchors. Likewise the LATCH chid-restraint system cannot be secured in the front passenger's seat and shoud be used in the second-row seats. Don't aow anyone to seep against the side window if you have an optiona side and curtain air bag, it coud cause serious injuries to an out of position occupant. As chidren more often seep in cars, it is better to put them in the rear seat. If instaing the chid-restraint system on the front seat is unavoidabe, foow these instructions when using a front-facing chid-restraint system in the front passenger's seat. 2-31

44 Essentia Safety Equipment Chid Restraint To check if your front seats have side air bags: Every Mazda side air bag wi have a SRS AIRBAG tag on the outboard shouder of the front seats. To check if your vehice has curtain air bags: Every Mazda curtain air bag wi have an SRS AIRBAG marking on the front and rear window piars aong the roof edge. WARNING Front Passenger's Seat Position: As your vehice has front air bags and douby so if your vehice has side air bags, a front-facing chid-restraint system shoud be put on the front seat ony when it is unavoidabe. Even if the front passenger air bag deactivation indicator ight iuminates, aways move the seat as far back as possibe, because the force of a depoying air bag coud cause serious injury or death to the chid. WARNING Rear-Facing Chid-Restraint System: Rear-facing chid-restraint systems on the front seat are particuary dangerous. The chid-restraint system can be hit by a depoying air bag and moved vioenty backward resuting in serious injury or death to the chid. Even though you may fee assured that the front passenger air bag wi not depoy based on the fact that the front passenger air bag deactivation indicator ight iuminates, NEVER use a rear-facing chid-restraint system in the front seat with an air bag that coud depoy even in a moderate coision. 2-32

45 Essentia Safety Equipment Chid Restraint WARNING Chidren and Seating Position with Side and Curtain Air Bags: Aowing anyone to ean over or against the side window, the area of the front passenger seat, front and rear window piars and the roof edge aong both sides from which the side and curtain air bags depoy, even if a chid-restraint system is used, is dangerous. If the vehice is equipped with side and curtain air bags, the impact of infation coud cause serious injury or death to the chid. Furthermore, eaning over or against the front door coud bock the side and curtain air bags and eiminate the advantages of suppementa protection. With the front air bag and the additiona side air bag that comes out of the front seat, the rear seat is aways a better ocation for chidren. Do not aow a chid to ean over or against the side window, even if the chid is seated in a chid-restraint system. qfront Passenger's Seat Chid- Restraint System Instaation 1. Side the seat as far back as possibe. 2. Secure the chid-restraint system with the ap portion of the ap/shouder bet. See the manufacturer's instructions on the chid-restraint system for bet routing instructions. 3. To get the retractor into the automatic ocking mode, pu the shouder bet portion of the seat bet unti the entire ength of the bet is out of the retractor. 4. Push the chid-restraint system firmy into the vehice seat. Be sure the bet retracts as snugy as possibe. Cicking from the retractor wi be heard during retraction if the system is in automatic ocking mode. If the bet does not ock the seat down tight, repeat the previous step and aso this one. 2-33