Big Warning

[McGuyver_3]

if your horn fuse blows or is not there for whatever the reason you brake lights will all be unoperational. I dont know why Mazda did this but it is simply rediculous. Just a warning to all i thaught it may be useful

[S.F.W.]

thanks for the heads up

[MattC]

AND, if your horn fuse blows, and your brake lights/3rd brake light become un-operational, and you drive an automatic car... Your car will not be able to shift into gear.

this happened to me yesterday, I couldnt get the car out of Park until I found and replaced the fuse that was the culprit.

[Cardinal Fang]

Now that's just strange!

[dentinger]

a safety measure maybe?

[MattC]

I mean its a good safety measure, since you shouldnt drive with no horn/brake lights, but they should throw a code or something, because it gives you no indication of what went wrong.

i think the transmission is connected to that same wire/fuse to determine weither or not the brake is on, so I dont think its a safety measure, I just think its the way they connected everything.

[McGuyver_3]

if it was a safety measure then they would have to let people know about it because i drove around for 3 days wondering why the hell my compustar wasnt shutting the cazr down when i stepped on the brakes. Which of course meant that for the same amount of time i didnot have any brake lights what so ever

[b3GS]

the horn fuse going makes you lose your brake lights!?!??

this is extremely dangerous

you could go a long time without knowing your horn is not working

[MattC]

not if you have an automatic car... the manuals seem to be ok, but autos will lock the transmission.

[WildEmu]

At least there is a safety measure in the autos (even though connecting the break lights to the horn is stupid). Thanks for the heads up!

[MattC]

It would be great if it mentioned something about this in the manual, for the average 3 owner, if this happened to them they would be screwed, have to get mazda service to come and bail them out.

who knows how much thatd cost.

[McGuyver_3]

That deffinatly true and there should be some sort of wrning for the mannual cars because i hd no clue what so ever