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Knowing Your Mazda

Security System

Form No. 8S18-EA-03I

The optional theft-deterrent system is 
designed to prevent your vehicle or its 
contents from being stolen when all the 
doors, hood, and trunk lid/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 
trunk lid/liftgate.

•

Opening a door, the hood or the trunk 
lid by operating an inside door-lock 
knob, the hood release handle or the 
trunk lid release lever.

If the system is triggered again, the lights 
and horn will activate until a door or the 
trunk lid 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 trunk lid/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 trunk lid/
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. 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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