Backup or other camera/sensors “It failed completely at 7600 miles. Replaced by new one. Still acting up, back up yellow lines are broken segments half the time”
Anonymous, FL (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “Backup camera intermittently becomes scrambled. No rhyme or reason to when it happens, but can present a safety concern. Dealer has been unable to duplicate and fix”
Andrew L., AL (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “At low temperatures, the camera starts to have a less reliable connection, sometimes does not work at all”
Michael T., CA (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) Display screen difficult to see “In bright sunlight, display screen difficult to see, sometimes can't at all”
Martha B., FL (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “Display screen for GPS and back-up camera doesn't automatically change from day to night. Have to adjust it by hand”
Anonymous, AZ (2014 Mazda 3 Touring Unsure) “The system automatically dims when it senses it is night time. Unfortunately this often happens when I drive in a shadow of a building or an underpass. Then it takes forever for the display to brighten again”
Paul R., ON (2014 Mazda 3 Sport 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “the switch to day/night was random, they said there was a service advisory. They replaced the unit. I still had problems, they looked at the new one and said my settings were the problem”
Anonymous, ON (2014 Mazda 3 Sport Unsure) Display screen freezes up “For no reason system crashes and screen freezes. I had to look up online for the reset buttons to press”
Paul F., NC (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “I can unfreeze it by turning the car motor off and back on, which seems to cause the display screen to reset itself and unfreeze”
Anonymous, OR (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “mAZADA CONNECT GOES BLANK DOESN'T COME ONE WON'T SYN WITH MY IPHONE SCREEN TURNS BLUE AND STAYS LIKE THAT FOR A LONG TIME”
Anonymous, AZ (2014 Mazda 3 Touring Unsure) “At least once per drive, the screen freezes and all functionality is lost until I shut the car off and the system reinitializes”
A C., WA (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “Display & functions not responding to controls”
Anonymous, BC (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “Freezes just before it goes blank. Associated always with other problem described above”
Peter F., PA (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “Gps and traffic app would start to download on display screen. It would freeze up after partially loading screen and crash system. System would have to restart”
Anonymous, GA (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “after starting, the display screen sometimes freezes on the permission screen. requires restart to resolve. dealer installed update to the system to resolve problems have not occurred since”
Anonymous, MI (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “Rarely happens, but sometimes the display becomes unresponsive, sometimes it continues to work after a pause, sometimes it blacks out and resets”
Michael T., CA (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “the display freezes up while playing music in random mode for no reason”
Anonymous, MA (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) Display screen goes blank “It is linked to the previous problem”
Paul F., NC (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “About once a month, the system gives a plain bluescreen or forgets it has a navigation system (it has one). I restart the car, and it is OK. Initially, the Mazda dealer said they new about the issue and a software fix was coming. Now, they shrug”
Anonymous, CA (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “Info system went dark on three occasions since purchase in December 2014. Problem was fixed by dealer each time, but it continued to happen. Each fix wiped out all personals settings which had to be reset after each repair”
Anonymous, NC (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “Screen went blank. Reset and worked fine. notified Mazda and they recommended a software update. had that done and haven't had any more problems”
Thomas O., NM (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “When the system is not freezing, the screen goes blank and it reboots. When that happens, I lose all of my previous settings”
A C., WA (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “The display screen goes blank seemingly randomly when driving. Can go weeks without blanking or twice in one trip. Sometimes it forgets the favorites and nav destination, sometimes not”
Peter F., PA (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “screen went blank, it was replaced by the dealer. Had to be fixed once more after the replacement”
Anonymous, CA (2014 Mazda 3 Unsure 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “Infotainment system ceased three times in ten months. Each time all features (backup camera, audio, & bluetooth) attached to the screen ceased. Dealer had to run updates each time”
Amanda R., MD (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “glitchy”
Ashley C., CA (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring Unsure) “Dash unit went dead. Had to take it in to Mazda to be serviced”
Anonymous, CO (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “Intermittent blank screen during cold weather. Sometimes also includes loss of rear camera display when backing up”
Anonymous, AL (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) External music device interface (e.g., smart phone, MP3 player) “It doesn't recognize my brand-new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the iPod interface is just downright terrible. When plugging your iPod in it freezes up and starts playing, alphabetically, all your songs. You have no control on the progress screen becau”
David S., NY (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “Difficulty in getting a WI FI signal. Users manual no help and dealer unfamiliar with Wi Fi feature”
Anonymous, NY (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “Bluetooth and auxiliary connections to iPhone are unreliable and don't always play songs correctly”
Andrew L., AL (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “The songs on my iphone replay no matter what I do. The only way around it is to not choose a song by an artist, but instead the song itself”
Anonymous, MA (2014 Mazda 3 Sport 2.0-L 4 Cyl) “System fails to properly play albums from a USB stick. It plays one song and then stops instead of continuing the album. I have tried multiple USB drives and the problem continues. This started happening recently for no apparent reason, with no system updates or any other culprit”
David R., CA (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “the playlist and the songs being played back is different”
Anonymous, MA (2014 Mazda 3 Touring 2.0-L 4 Cyl) In-dash navigation system (GPS) “it had to be reprogramed several times”
Daniel G., NJ (2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring 2.5-L 4 Cyl) “system stopped loading. Old program had to be updated. Afterwards it works fine. By the way I live in Thailand not US”