Recent content by Charly Brown

Hello, I was wondering if the 2011 CX9 Grand Touring has some kind of advice that schedule maintenance is due, like a light or written notice on the dashboard? All the cars I owned for the last 10 years (Audi, BMW, Mini, Toyota, Honda, etc) has some sort of warning that the car is due for...

Centerpoint works only with the CD and the rear DVD entertainment, it doesn't work with the AUX input, AM/FM, SAT or BT-Audio. The reason is that Centerpoint is designed to emulate 5.1 channel surround on a conventional stereo channel, so the option will be grayed-out in all sources except the...

My experience with BT Audio on the CX-9 is very good; it's not the highest quality as for example an Audio CD (not an MP3 CD) but it goes very close to iPod quality. It will also depend of course on the quality of the Audio files you have on the player. I use an IPhone 4 with mostly AAC type and...

My other car with navigation is a Prius, and I was able to configure the GPS to show only my bank as POI on the Bank/ATM Category, saving me the crowded screen showing all banks/ATMs I don't care about when displaying the category POI Can this be done on the CX-9 GPS? Denso makes both GPS, so I...

OK, I found out what it was: the red dot represents the end of a previous destination set and not completed. The strange thing was that I've deleted the destination before and the red dot was still there. I had to restore defaults, delete the HOME address on the address book and re-input it for...

Ok, this is more an aesthetics issue than a real technical one. I programmed my home address into the GPS, and instead of the screen showing a little home or any other icon I choose for the location, it shows a big red dot, something like a bullseye. It looks very ugly and I cannot take it out...

I checked and searched the manual and it seems there is no warning light for the coolant level being too low. Am I right or is there a light for such event? Also, per your experience, is there a need to refill the coolant between service intervals or does it last between services? Some engines...

Update: My dealer sent me the missing DVD, tested it and everything is OK. I think I'm all set!

Just a quick update, Mazda replied to me that there are in fact 2 DVDs, and that both should have come with the car. My dealer told me they will get me the missing disk, hopefuly this week or the next. Other than that, what a great car the CX9 is, no regrets so far and not missing my former BMW...

Hello, I'm the happy new owner of a 2011 CX-9 Grand Touring with Navigation. According to the Navigation manual, the navigation map comes in a set of two discs, disc A and disc B. Disc B covers the Eastern US and Canada, and Disc A covers the rest of the US (plus Canada again). I bought my CX-9...