I started my Mazda6 today with the driver's door open and the display screen was dead.
I shut it off, closed the door and restarted it.
The screen worked perfectly.
Is this normal?
Re: Dumb question, Mazda6 content.
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 3:34 pm
by Houblues
My 2016 GM product has similar issues. If you don't do things in a sequence it expects the screen won't work. Like opening the doors, futzing around a few minutes, then starting. I guess it loses patience.... As you say, it eventually comes back.
Re: Dumb question, Mazda6 content.
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 3:39 pm
by MichaelR
Sometimes I start my computer and it fails to recognize my keyboard so I have to restart. I think that sometimes a computer just misses a step for whatever reason and needs a restart as what happened to your Mazda6, I wouldn't worry about it unless it becomes a constant feature which I doubt it will.
Re: Dumb question, Mazda6 content.
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 6:32 pm
by PoodlesAgain
mickey wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 3:28 pm
I started my Mazda6 today with the driver's door open and the display screen was dead.
I shut it off, closed the door and restarted it.
The screen worked perfectly.
Is this normal?
As they service bay guy says, "They all do that..!"
Seriously, it may be a power-saving feature, or safety interlock.
A sticky switch, somewhere?
These darn cars think for themselves, these days.
As you recall our PM conversation last year, this thing, like most now, has a modem phoning home twice a day or such. It knows you have been up to something. Forgot feeding the dog? Up to date on your taxes?
Re: Dumb question, Mazda6 content.
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 6:37 pm
by mickey
You think Murphy caused it???
Re: Dumb question, Mazda6 content.
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 9:24 pm
by bc rich
What"s a mazda
Re: Dumb question, Mazda6 content.
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2021 6:39 am
by PoodlesAgain
Something that goes wroom wroom like this:
@mickey that is not how Murphy was described to me, seems pretty adjusted. Also how come you have a "Cape Cod lawn"?
Re: Dumb question, Mazda6 content.
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2021 7:01 am
by mickey
Murphy the attack dog?
He had a difficult time adjusting at first. He had been a city dog all his life so he had to learn how to be a country dog.
Lawn? What lawn? I live in RURAL Floriduh so I just mow whatever comes up near the house.
Murphy & me and my lawn care contractor is all that see it in a normal month.