Mazda 6 Owners Manual: Winter Driving
Carry emergency gear, including tire chains, window scraper, flares, a small
shovel, jumper cables, and a small bag of sand or salt.
Ask an Authorized Mazda Dealer to check the following:
- Have the proper ratio of antifreeze in the radiator.
- Inspect the battery and its cables. Cold reduces battery capacity.
- Use an engine oil appropriate for the lowest ambient temperatures that the
vehicle will be driven in.
- Inspect the ignition system for damage and loose connections.
- Use washer fluid made with antifreeze— but do not use engine coolant antifreeze
for washer fluid
NOTE
- Remove snow before driving. Snow left on the windshield is dangerous
as it could obstruct vision.
- Do not apply excessive force to a window scraper when removing ice or
frozen snow on the mirror glass and windshield.
- Never use warm or hot water for removing snow or ice from windows and
mirrors as it could result in the glass cracking.
- Drive slowly. Braking performance can be adversely affected if snow or
ice adheres to the brake components. If this situation occurs, drive the vehicle
slowly, releasing the accelerator pedal and lightly applying the brakes several
times until the brake performance returns to normal.
WARNING
Do not spin the wheels at more than 56 km/h (35 mph), and do not allow
anyone to stand behind a wheel when pushing the vehicle: When the vehicle
is stuck, spinning the wheels at high spee ...
Use snow tires on all four wheels
Do not go faster than 120 km/h (75 mph) while driving with snow tires. Inflate
snow tires 30 kPa (0.3 kgf/cm2, 4.3 psi) more than recommended on the tire pressure ...
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Mazda 6 Owners Manual: Turning the Engine Off
WARNINGDo not stop the engine while the vehicle is moving: Stopping the
engine while the vehicle is moving for any reason other than in an emergency is
dangerous. Stopping the engine while the vehicle is moving will result in reduced
braking ability due to the loss of power braking, which coul ...
Mazda 6 Owners Manual: Gracenote Database
When a USB device is connected to this unit and the audio is played, the album
name, artist name, genre and title information are automatically displayed if there
is a match in the vehicle's database compilation to the music being played. The
information stored in this device uses database inf ...