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Knowing Your Mazda

Security System

Form No. 8Q44-EA-01K

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. 

The system won’t function unless it’s 
properly armed. So when you leave the 
vehicle, lock all the doors and the liftgate, 
close all the windows, take your key, your 
transmitter, and make sure the security 
indicator light is flashing.

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Operation

What turns it on:

•

Forcing open a door, the hood or the 
liftgate.

•

Opening a door or the hood by 
operating an inside door-lock button or 
the hood release handle.

What it does:

•

The horn sounds intermittently and the 
hazard warning lights flash.

•

The alarm continues for about 3 
minutes, then stops.

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 ignition key.

2. Close the hood. Then close all doors 

and the liftgate and lock them from the 
outside using the key in the door. If you 
have the keyless entry system, press the 
LOCK button on the transmitter. The 
hazard warning lights will flash one 
time to indicate that the system is 
armed.

The following method will also arm the 
theft-deterrent system:
Close the hood. Press the area on the 
door-lock switch marked "DOOR 
LOCK" once. Close all doors and the 
liftgate.

3. The indicator light flashes once every 3 

seconds to indicate that the system is 
fully armed. It continues to flash until 
the theft-deterrent system is turned off.

Theft-Deterrent System

NOTE

The theft-deterrent system operates 
without the keyless entry system 
transmitter, as well.

NOTE

Locking the doors with the inside 
door-lock button will not arm the 
system.

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