Bought a car today
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@jon-nyc said in Bought a car today:
Itβs the Mazda app telling me I left the door unlocked. So I opened the app on my phone, and locked it.
Does that car have an old school lock that you can open with a physical key? It would suck if a hacker or system multifunction locks you out of your car and you cannot override with a physical key. Also hope all that remote control stuff is completely physically isolated from the drive/steering system. Last think you want is for anything to remotely temper with your acceleration, breaking, steering, or gear shifting controls while you drive. If it were me I would also put the driver seat adjustment, head lights, signal lights, and wiper controls out of the mobile app's reach.
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@axtremus said in Bought a car today:
Does that car have an old school lock that you can open with a physical key?
https://www.mazdausa.com/static/manuals/2021/cx-5/contents/04030101.html
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@axtremus said in Bought a car today:
Also hope all that remote control stuff is completely physically isolated from the drive/steering system. Last think you want is for anything to remotely temper with your acceleration, breaking, steering, or gear shifting controls while you drive. If it were me I would also put the driver seat adjustment, head lights, signal lights, and wiper controls out of the mobile app's reach.
All you can control is start/stop engine, lock/unlock doors, and turn on/off hazards.
And lots of 'read only' stuff - fuel levels, oil life, stuff like that.
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@axtremus said in Bought a car today:
Last think you want is for anything to remotely temper with your acceleration, breaking, steering, or gear shifting controls while you drive.
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Check out what you have to do to use the old-school key in my car
You have to pry off the handle cover, I never came close to figuring that out, I had to go to the owner's manual.
Link to video