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Knowing Your Mazda
Security System
Form No. 8S06-EA-03H
The optional theft-deterrent system is
designed to prevent your vehicle or its
contents from being stolen when all the
doors, hood, and liftgate are locked.
If forcible entry is attempted, the system
sounds the horn and flashes the hazard
warning lights.
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Operation
System triggering conditions
The horn sounds intermittently and the
hazard warning lights flash for about 3
minutes when the system is triggered by
any one of the following:
•
Forcing open a door, the hood or the
liftgate.
•
Opening a door or the hood by
operating an inside door-lock knob or
the hood release handle.
If the system is triggered again, the lights
and horn will activate until a door or the
liftgate is unlocked with the key or with
the transmitter.
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How to Arm the System
1. Remove the key from the ignition
switch.
2. Close the hood. Then close and lock all
doors and the liftgate from the outside
using the key. If you have the keyless
entry system, press the LOCK button
on the transmitter. The hazard warning
lights will flash once to indicate that
the system is armed.
The following method will also arm the
theft-deterrent system:
Close the hood and the liftgate . Press
the area on the door-lock switch
marked "LOCK" once. Close all doors.
Theft-Deterrent System*
NOTE
•
The theft-deterrent system operates
with the key or the keyless entry
system transmitter.
•
The system will not function unless
it is properly armed. To properly
secure the vehicle, always make
sure all the windows are completely
closed and all doors and the liftgate
are locked before leaving the
vehicle. Make sure the security
indicator light is flashing.
Remember to take your key and
transmitter.
NOTE
Locking the doors with the inside
door-lock knob will not arm the
system.
*Some models.
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