So I can’t see a button to turn this off anywhere. I have to go into Home>Settings>Safety features(might be driving aids)>untick lane departure. This then puts up a light on the dash informing me that lane departure is off, but it still interferes!!! Still tugs at wheel and flashes up on dash that I am too near the lane lines. Really annoying. Any suggestions?
Does ND3 not have the switch in this manual? Mazda MX-5 Owner’s Manual
Unfortunately no. This is what I have in that area. Top left, Track Mode, Bottom left DSC off, top middle mute audible alerts, bottom middle parking sensors off, top right, i-stop off and bottom right auto headlights off.
I found this Manuals & Know your Mazda | Mazda UK which shows what you have.
I will read and see what it reveals.
I have had a read and it appears that you can turn off just the warning sound or turn the whole system off from within the ‘settings’. It is the same as the other NDs in that it will always reset to on when the car is restarted.
If you can not find the LDWS off in the system make sure that the engine is running.
Thanks Malc, I’ll have another look and let you know how I get on
Interesting. I was told by my local dealer that it was possible to disable the Lane Assist permanently on ND’s 1&2. (But not on the ND3)
So this is definitely incorrect then?
It has stayed off on my ND1 since I bought it in 2017, never had it reset when the car is turned off.
Today I learnt that the ND3 has a Lane-keep Assist System (LAS) as well as a Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS)! Both share the same warning light on the dash that will turn on if either LAS or LDWS is turned off.
From what I can see reading the manual both are controlled by the same setting but I don’t have access to a ND3 to confirm this. It might be that there are separate settings in the infotainment system so you might just be disabling LDWS and not LAS.
It looks like I am wrong on this. I could be getting confused with the Volvo systems. Sorry for any confusion.
I copied this from the Parker’s website
Yes, you can. You may just want to turn it off in some circumstances, some drivers do so every time they start their car. Same goes for lane-keeping assist.
Exactly how you turn LDW off varies from car to car. Some cars have a button on the dashboard bearing a symbol similar to that pictured at the top of this page, usually to the right of the steering wheel. In other cars you’ll find it in the Driver Assistance menu on the touchscreen. You might also be able to raise and lower the level of intervention from LDW, as in the BMW 7 Series.
Note that some cars let you to turn LDW off permanently, however in cars sold from July 2022, you have to turn it off every time you start the car.
So cars after July 22 will always default to LDW on.
So it looks like you have to turn off LAS (tugs at steering wheel to pull you back into lane), every time you start the car, in settings as it defaults to on when the car is turned on. LDWS is another setting that gives me visual alerts in left display, seems I can take out the ticks for visual and rumble in settings, which then doesn’t reset. What a PITA!! Thank frack it only kicks in above 40mph!
Think of it in a positive way, one day you may have had a momentary lapse of concentration and it could just save your life or more importantly someone else’s. Glass half full not half empty!!
It is the reason I leave all driver aids on. I have come to realise that I am fallible after all!!!
Today I turned it all off. LAS & LDWS, went for a short drive, turned car off, turned it back on again and it is all enabled again!
Guess I’ll have to learn to live with being nannied lol
Yes - these are now mandated safety systems on new vehicles, covered under the DCAS (Driver Control Assistance Systems) umbrella. Hence why systems such LAS & LDWS return to an ‘on state’ when the car starts again.
Similar to how ESP\TCS systems are configured really. Default is ‘on’.
Cheers,
Steve
