Until Mazda uses electrical steering wheel position adjustment instead mechenical, this automatic easy entry feature won’t be available for the customers.I was hoping this option exists but that I just couldn't find it.... A setting where the seat automatically lowers and goes back when I park or turn off the car? Some cars have a setting that does this to make entry and exit easier/more room.
Yes, I got a pair too! No regrets!The Japanese Domestic Market Headrest sits lower when down. I ordered some from Japan so I can drop my rear seats without adjusting the fronts.
Caturra Brown leather found in gen-2 CX-5 Signature is "Exclusive Mode", "KF2 RED" leather in CX-5 KF for Japanese Domestic Market. The part number for low profile JDM rear headrest with this color is K331-88-240 13. You can get this from some Japanese online sellers.Murky,
Great! Could you please link that for me?
Are they available in the “Caturra Brown” (or what everyone who sees it calls “black”) leather?
Yes, certainly we’re living in a unforeseen era right now.Never had a Mazda before, but couldn’t find anyone selling a car with the features I wanted who wasn’t charging above MSRP at this time. I got a good deal on a Signature (well, probably because the MSRP is over-priced to start with ) and am happy with my choice.
Yes, my 2016 CX-5 is my first Mazda too and I have similar feelings like you. All complaints you have are mine too when the re-designed gen-2 CX-5 just came out. It seems Mazda is trying too hard to be different from everybody else.I guess I’m still getting used to some of Mazda’s odd choices compared to competitors (like it’s the only car I’ve had which has a HUD, which I like a lot, but it doesn’t display individual tire pressure??? Horizontally mounted trunk cargo net??? Totally weird cargo cover??? Rear seat heater switches hidden in the rear console and inaccessible if someone is sitting in the middle???).
And they call the “Caturra Brown” leather color “Exclusive Mode"、“KF2 Red” in Japan.I also don’t think they could have worked any harder making the brown leather and real wood trim look black instead of brown,
It's brown enough to clash with the black. I don't know how they decided that to be the premium color combination.Murky,
Great! Could you please link that for me?
Are they available in the “Caturra Brown” (or what everyone who sees it calls “black”) leather?
Until Mazda uses electrical steering wheel position adjustment instead mechenical, this automatic easy entry feature won’t be available for the customers.
Yes, I got a pair too! No regret!
Yes, certainly we’re living in a unforeseen era right now.
Yes, my 2016 CX-5 is my first Mazda too and I have similar feelings like you. All complaints you have are mine too when the re-designed gen-2 CX-5 just came out. It seems Mazda is trying too hard to be different from everybody else.
And they call the “Caturra Brown” leather color “Exclusive Mode"、“KF2 Red” in Japan.
Uh... yea bro. I've been obsessed with telling people to loosen their schedule if a few minutes is detrimental ever since I heard a Brain Regan bit about people who are so pressed for time they need to microwave pop tarts instead of toast them.I'll assume from the smiley that was a good natured comment, but like a lot of people, my schedule is often in the hands of others…
But let's chat!Taken to it's logical conclusion, one could easily say we don't need power windows, power door locks, power seats and all the other convenience features which are now pretty much standard on most cars and were once only available on the most expensive luxury cars (I'm old enough to have hand-cranked my share of windows and strained to reach across the car to unlock doors for passengers).
As an engineer? As a human being, I couldn't agree more. 5 passenger vehicle my foot. If your passengers are children only.As an engineer, I find the design of the CX-5 rear seating sub-optimal.
Curious what that was?I would have bought the latest model of that brand if they hadn't been charging a premium over MSRP at this time.
OK, that's just weird, sorry. How gross is your car? My floor is clean enough that the head rests don't get dirty putting them there?!?!As far as putting the headrests on the floor--uh, no. There are many members of my family who would not want to lay their hair against something which had been on the floor of the car and I would never hear the end of it…
Yep, Caturra Brown leather is Nappa Leather Deep Red in Japan with color code KF2 which is only available in CX-5’s highest trim “Exclusive Mode” similar to CX-5 Signature in the US.“Red” is an amazing name choice... With the sun beating down on the interior it barely looks brown. In typical light, my wife and I (and everyone who has seen my car) think it looks black, but to be diplomatic I call it “warm black”. The cool white interior LED lighting certainly doesn’t do it any favors.
The wood is perhaps a bigger disappointment. I’d hate to do this to real wood, but I’m contemplating a visibly brown wood dash/door kit whenever someone comes out with one for a 2021 CX-5.
Uh... yea bro. I've been obsessed with telling people to loosen their schedule if a few minutes is detrimental ever since I heard a Brain Regan bit about people who are so pressed for time they need to microwave pop tarts instead of toast them.
But let's chat!
This is nowhere near the logical conclusion I would go to re: ways to save time. These are convenience features, not time savers.
I swear to god there is one word I can just never freaking spell. Embarrassing how long it took me to get spell check to figure out what I was spelling (convienence)
Curious what that was?
OK, that's just weird, sorry. How gross is your car? My floor is clean enough that the head rests don't get dirty putting them there?!?!
(Or what kind of prima donna's do you live with? hahaha)
I just discovered that there are cooking instructions on the package of frozen cookie dough - I got no idea why.Ehh, I don’t like Pop Tarts anyway—but sometimes I microwave my bagel instead of toasting it
Oh, I knew what you meant.As far as the prima donnas, they’re called “Females”
1) This’s really a surprise to me. I know on gen-2 CX-5, the JDM rear seat headrest has different stitch design (or hidden) than the US version. But didn’t know the front and rear stitches are different for US version. I’d believe if Mazda has changed the stitch design when they redesigned the rear headrest for US CX-5, they woukd make the stitch design consistent between front and rear.Sorry to dredge this up again, but two new things:
1) I got my Japanese market rear headrests from JapanParts today (so less than a month from order to receipt). They are perfect! I didn’t realize that the stitching/trim on the US market rear headrests doesn’t match the US front headrests, but the Japanese market rear headrests DO match the US front headrests. They slide down over the front of the seats, giving you much better rear visibility and don’t require you to remove them to fold the rear seats down.
2) I was wrong in my re-analysis—there is unquestionably an easy-entry function which moves the driver’s seat back. A few days ago, after a specific sequence of events, the next time I opened the driver’s door, the seat moved all the way back. To verify this, I pressed the memory button for my seat setting and the seat moved forward to the correct position without any of the other settings for the seat and mirrors changing. Just to be sure, I repeated the sequence of events and once again the seat moved all the way back when I opened the door.
I’m not at the point where I can tell what the essential parts of the sequence are, but it involved turning off the car with the doors locked, exiting the driver’s door by opening it (without first unlocking the car), then after closing the driver’s door, unlocking the rest of the doors with the key fob, opening and closing a rear door, then, the next time I opened the driver’s door, the driver’s seat moved back. I repeated the sequence to be sure and the results were the same.
Unfortunately I tried what I thought was the same sequence today and it didn’t work, so I probably forgot exactly what I did. Functionally, it works too much like an easy-entry feature to believe it’s a glitch or software bug, but at this point, it’s inscrutable how to make it work, but I’ll keep trying!