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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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