Mazda owner’s manuals In our opinion, there a glaring mistake in the 2025 Mazda owner’s manuals, that is repeated over and over and therefore likely intended. The company has left images out of the list of warning symbols and indicators in favor of embedding them into the text. The problem with this approach is that …
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Mazda dashboard symbols A full review of 2024 and 2025 models results in the addition of 17 new indicators to the Mazda dashboard symbols page. This is due to the addition of a number of new technologies to Mazda models. The most significant one is from what the company calls Cruising & Traffic Support (CTS), …
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Boost indicator This is a Boost Indicator text symbol. It is found in Mazda hybrid vehicles, and the company offers no more explanation than that the “light turns on when the energy used for driving is at maximum output.” It is associated with the vehicle’s Charge Mode and EV Mode indicators, so we surmise that …
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Collision Warning and Intervention Our Collision Warning and Intervention page now features 29 entries. We added another today from Mazda, who also uses a different name for the system: Smart Brake Support (SBS). That’s now nine different naming conventions for the same basic system. Plus, our Collision Warning and Intervention page begins with a an …
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Lane keeping assist Lane Keeping Assist page now hold 33 entries. This comes courtesy of Mazda, which calls its system Emergency Lane Keeping (ELK), growing the number of name options to 10, because of course, why use a single name for the same system! Several manufacturers use the first image to the right to indicate …
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Mazda symbols page In advance of an update of our Mazda symbols page, we thought it would be prudent to rearrange the page by color, as we have been doing with all our dashboard symbols pages over the last several weeks. The process for the Mazda page is now complete. Beginning with our primary symbols …
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Using the mechanical key We just dropped a video on YouTube discussing why using the mechanical key sets off the alarm in the vehicle the key belongs to! We discussed it in a post earlier here, but thought we should inform our subscribers. We note in the middle of our videos that the alarm may …
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Marc Favreau
The author has 30+ years of automotive experience and has assembled the most extensive collection of symbols and warning lights anywhere (over 1,000!) and can help you open and start any keyless start car with a dead key fob battery. BA, St. Joseph's, ME: MS, RPI, NY
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