Mazda manual for the soft top calls out keeping the drain channels clear and cleaning a filter. I can’t for the life of me figure out where the filder actually is from the diagram - can someone put me out of my misery, please
I bought a jack and fitted it behind the pull off carpet panel in the boot on the drivers side. You would need one if you wanted to check a punctured tyre for a nail etc and if you wanted to repair it at the roadside to get you to a garage.
By not providing one, mazda save the cost and no doubt equally, the weight of the jack so they can keep the claimed weight down.
The strap in the boot is handy to stop things moving around when there is not much in there, not sure if there was supposed to be anything there as there wasnt in my 2nd hand car. I have a first aid kit and spare oil bottle there at present.
There is a youtube video with an american showing how to remove and clean the drain baskets and sponges. Easy to do once you have done it once! I did mine yesterday and took maybe half an hour to do both?
That is not the video I watched but you get the idea. I gripped the little tab that has a bit of foam rubber on and just pulled and mine came out. This helps to find the right bit to pull as you are doing it by feel!
When you take each sponge out, make a mental note of the orientation for when you put them back in.
My tyre kit is also on the strap on the front of the boot.
I put the puncture repair kit in one of the pockets behind the seats. And if you haven’t found it yet there is a power supply in the passenger footwell top r/h side.
Did the same. It is not something you need regular access too. I also bought a Mazda jack (along with folding jack handle and wheel brace of ebay) and fitted it to the special bracket found behind the removeable trim piece in the offside rear wing. I think it is always a good idea to be able to jack up a punctured wheel when using the foam puncture repair kit as you can rotate the wheel to ensure the fluid can get to the puncture as required.
I have it clipped to one of the air vent blades, with the clip the other way up from the Amazon picture. It seemed to fit better with the metal hook part being under the blade and hooking upwards.
There’s a few negative reviews on Amazon where people have said their vent blade got snapped, but I think you’d have to be pretty heavy handed and have maybe inadvertently knocked it to do that. It cannot be over-tightened when fitting because the tightening knob is ratcheted and it just turns and clicks when tight.
Overall I’m pleased with it, and subjectively I think the Apple Car Play navigation is less laggy with the phone in the “open” than it was when it was laying down in the cubby space below.
I went with the custom one here, and mounted a wireless charger to it. The 2023 model year doesn’t do wireless Android Auto so I also got a wireless adapter. All pretty expensive all in all, and I hesitated because of that, but it works and looks as close to OEM as I’m going to get.
Buy all this stuff quick whilst it still feels part of the cost of the car
I ditched a phone holder when I did the airplay upgrade. I found the the weight of the phone suspended away from the dash gave it enough leverage to rattle and creak a little. Drove me nuts.
With car play, i just don’t need access to the phone.
Each to their own. For me it augments Android Auto, and replaces Android Auto when it bugs out…
At least mounting it is supposed to make it legal to use, as much as any other car infotainment/controls. In all cases (even with what’s built into the car) you can still be prosecuted if you’re dangerous.
If your car has no spare wheel, it won’t have a jack - that is standard across the car industry. In the area where the spare wheel would normally be, there should be a compressor with a power lead and a can of sealant with a means of connecting to the compressor so you can blow it into the deflated tyre in the faint hope it will re-inflate it. I say faint hope because on the two occasions I have had a flat and no spare, the can did diddly squat…but not on my MX-5 which is old enough to have a space saver spare which I have never needed to use. This is an example of the Sod’s first law of car maintenance.
The straps you can see are for some items of emergency equipment such as a first aid kit, warning triangle and so on which are legal requirements in some markets but not the UK. Again, these are quite common in modern cars, but the dealer doesn’t tell you about them because it only draws attention to the fact that the UK market is short changed in this respect!
As for the hood drains, can’t help as on the NBFL they are large and obvious holes to clear out every autumn with the obligatory trombone brush, available at all good e-Bay sites selling trombone brushes, and do not pay MX-5 Parts or Amazon prices.
I’ve not got a diagram but I do have a jack. It is in a wee upright compartment on the right side of the boot, more or less aligned with maybe the top of the right rear tyre. 2011 Mk3
btw thanks to the member who brought up checking the inflation can is still viable! Mine
wasn’t so thanks v much!
Thanks.
