Hey guys,
This is quite embarrassing. I've had my 8 now for about 6-8 months, and just today l realized that the center console folds up.

Am l the only one that notices little things about the car as time goes on???

 

We had somebody who never knew there was a tire repair kit in the trunk. So no big deal. It's easy to get caught up in just driving and not notice certain features.

 

I never noticed the dome light until a friend asked me why it didn't come on.

Reading the little things thread will surely uncover some things you were unaware of too! Love that thread.

 

Had the car for like 2yrs before becoming aware of the little trunk handle used to pull down the trunk from the inside. Guy from a local meet used it once and i saw him and was like, WTF is that? LOL...dipshit. Just gotta laugh off lil stuff like that

 

The car has a tire repair kit!

 

don't feel bad I just discovered it a few months ago myself. I felt so retarded. But then again I don't really put anything in my center console anyway.

 

There have been posts from people who didn't realize there was a jack.

I knew the console opened because I read the owner's manual when I got the car. I stashed some stuff back there. Couple of years later I was wondering where the stuff had gone to...and randomly found it under the lift-up, which I had completely forgotten about.

Ken

 

Well, I have now just learned that the trunk has a handle. I have been using the mazda symbol to close it.

 

lol i didn't realize the car had a lot of things till i read the little things thread... such as the credit card holder on the visor.

 

the trunk has a handle? aslo anyone notice the flip down little cubby hole by the trunk/hood release button? What are you supposed to put in there? spare change and buttons?

 

^It's the spare change holder. Or any other misc object(s) you can fit into it

 

seems like it might rattle around and be annoying, but also quite a handy place for toll roads

 

I didn't know that either!!!

what?!

Glad l'm not the only one. The worst part however, is that is where the previous owner had stored the locknut key for the stock rims... The nuts were a b!tch to get off without it..

 

Doesn't seem to rattle that I know of

 

Same here with the trunk handle.....had the car for a year and noticed it last month lol

 

O_O the trunk has a handle

i have never once noticed that even after doing audio work and taking alot of it apart ....*goes to check*

 

few people know there is a smaller compartment inside of the center console compartment.

 

WOW. I just went outside in the rain to check this stuff out. Had no idea about the credit card holder or the trunk handle. Not too long ago I noticed the sunglass holder by the sunroof controls.

 

Yeah or on some JDM versions they don't have that holder - there's a rotor shaped Start Button there instead...

 

Woah I don't have pistons? hah

 

as for the spare change holder on the left, it is safe to put change in there and it wont move around. the compartment has like a rubber pad in it so the change doesnt move.

 

Just to make it unequivocally clear, that handle is a mandate safety feature in the event someone gets locked in the trunk, they have a means of getting out. It's just like refrigerators from back in the day that actually 'clicked' closed. People used to throw them out in their yards when they went bad...well they were great places to hide if you were playing hide and seek, but too many kids were locked in and died as a consequence. Same thing with these..kids play in old cars and locked themselves in..

Some of you may be too young to remember that lol, but I had a cousin that died when he accidentally locked himself into one of those old refrigerators...

 

That's sad. My mother tells me that when I was small they pulled me out of one of those things just in time.

My wife worries about trunk releases because of incidents of carjackers throwing the driver in the trunk. Trunk releases are always on her list of questions. When we were looking at the RX-8, the salesman asked if she thought any one of us could actually fit in the trunk.

I think the handle everyone is talking about, though, is the recessed finger grip, not the release.

Ken

 

credit card holder! i always wondered what that was!

 

Ken, I agree. The trunk release thing is a very good question.... And now I'm going to ask it... Is there one on the 8? Because I am tiny enough to get tossed into my trunk.

On a side note, I never hid in an old refridgerator. I always ended up hiding in washer and dryers.