Sensor by sunroof switch

[604Jay]

I have what looks like a sensor near the sunroof buttons. It has a small blue LED light in it. Does anybody know what this sensor is for?

Thanks

[valence220]

I was wondering the same, hoping it was a hidden blue tooth function only to find out that it's a complimantery light for the center console for driving at night

[Raider]

I forget what the manual said, I want to say it is the smartkey sensor.

[AWmustang]

It's just a light. It is only on the Grand Touring models.

It's blue led for ambient lighting. But if you have Nav you have to turn that screen off before you can notice it.

[604Jay]

The Blue LED looks to Dim to be a light

[HeavyH20]

It is simply a night light. I casts very dim light on the console by the drink holders for night visibility without being bright. Simple enough.

[AWmustang]

The Blue LED looks to Dim to be a light

You gotta be out in the country or in your garage with no lights (in the garage or in the car) before you can really notice it.

[moozmooz]

It is simply a night light. I casts very dim light on the console by the drink holders for night visibility without being bright. Simple enough.

right on..... a very thoughtful feature and I like it.

[Mononcle_jojo]

Actualy, Raider is right.

Its one of the Smart key sensor (Luxury package for Canada, Tech package for US I think). Mazda simply added a blue light in it to match with the blue lights from the GT gauges.

I personally like it. :D

[Raider]

Hooray! I thought I was right.

[AWmustang]

So what is there in non-GT CX-7s that have the advanced key?

[MAZOOM]

It doesn't make any sense to me that the light is a sensor, it hits directly down on the gear shifter like the ambient lighting in our A4.

[Raider]

OK, so to settle this once and for all, I went
http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/pdf/manuals/2007CX7OM.pdf
and got the manual, and could not find it in there at all.

Other forums have found it to be a light only. I might be wrong. Can canyone frond this light in the manual?

[shadow1]

There is NO sensor in the headliner. It is a blue LED ambiance light so you can see the cupholders at night. Other comapnies do this as well. My previous Honda Ridgeline had an amber LED in the headliner that served the same purpose.

[shadow1]

This blue light is listed as a standard feature for Grand Touring models. It is called "Indirect blue illumination."

[Raider]

What page of the manual is it on?

[AWmustang]

Can someone with the tech package who does NOT have a GT tell us what is on the headliner of their car behind the map light, sunroof controls cluster?

My gut says there isn't anything until you get to the back seat.

[Seminole]

Actualy, Raider is right.

Its one of the Smart key sensor (Luxury package for Canada, Tech package for US I think). Mazda simply added a blue light in it to match with the blue lights from the GT gauges.

I personally like it. :D


Nah, I think your wrong. Mazda's website calls it "Indirect Blue Lighting" (Look here: http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/displayPage.action?pageParameter=modelsSpecs&vehicleCode=CX7 Under Comfort and Convenience)

You can get the Tech Package on any of the models (Sport, Touring, G Touring) and it comes with the smart key, but not the blue light.

[Raider]

Bingo...that must b e it.

[deacro]

Sorry guys its only a night light, not a smart key sensor thats what I read some were in the manual.:)

[Raider]

I read through the manual, could not find it. Can you tell us where you found it?

[deacro]

Ya sure when the wife gets back with the cx-7 I will have a look trough the owners manual and see if i can find it again.

[imanofpiano]

you guys are all wrong.... it is the original sunroof wiring and it is the teat lite from the factory for electric problems. it is a plug underneath that mazda uses for their ecu...plus it does make a great ambience light.

[HunterSwift]

you guys are all wrong.... it is the original sunroof wiring and it is the teat lite from the factory for electric problems. it is a plug underneath that mazda uses for their ecu...plus it does make a great ambience light.

your post doesnt make sense. if you are talking about the blue light that is all it is a blue light.

"Indirect blue lighting casts a cool, subtle glow over the driver’s cockpit, standard on the Grand Touring model."

[MAZOOM]

you guys are all wrong.... it is the original sunroof wiring and it is the teat lite from the factory for electric problems. it is a plug underneath that mazda uses for their ecu...plus it does make a great ambience light.
It has nothing to do with the sunroof, it's lighting for the cabin at night to give it an upscale feel.

[Raider]

Prove it. Please show us documentation to show that.

you guys are all wrong.... it is the original sunroof wiring and it is the teat lite from the factory for electric problems. it is a plug underneath that mazda uses for their ecu...plus it does make a great ambience light.

[HunterSwift]

"CAR interiors glowed with a strange blue light this year at the North American International Auto Show, imparting a nervous, edgy electricity that seemed to speak to the industry’s state of mind — part excitement and part anxiety.

What it spoke with, mostly, was L.E.D.’s in the blue end of the spectrum, and what it promised was a sense that light is capable of providing the style once imparted by stamped metal or molded glass.

Ambience was the word much used at the show in connection with light. “Everyone is talking about ambient lighting,” said Gary S. Vasilash, editor of a trade magazine, Automotive Design and Production, who has attended many auto shows.

Ian Callum, the director of design for Jaguar, proved the point. “Lighting is going to be the next big thing in automobile design,” he said.

Of course, ambience, like the chef or the menu, can make or break any restaurant that aspires to be more than a diner. In the car, ambience is created by dramatic lighting on doors, sills and beneath the seats, with footlights and sidelights that lend a theatrical quality to the simple act of opening a door. Luxury cars have offered lighting before, but never with quite such dramaturgy.

Lower costs for L.E.D.’s and the electronics that control them — and the development of blue L.E.D.’s a few years ago, joining red and green ones — have brought similar effects to more modest models. In the next generation of Chrysler minivans, cup holders glow with blue light.

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In the Lincoln MKR concept car, “ambient lighting and contrasting colors” establish a design language for the brand’s interiors. The new Lincoln theme of “guilt-free luxury” combines motifs derived from classic cars like the 1941 Lincoln Continental.

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Nature provided inspiration in concept cars from Mazda and Volvo.

Mazda introduced a design based on the characteristics of flowing water or windblown sand with the Nagare concept car that it took to the Los Angeles auto show several weeks ago. While the Nagare was presented as a car for the year 2020, the related concept car that Mazda brought to Detroit, the Ryuga, was imagined as a car to be driven relatively soon, in 2010. But it, too, continued to build on the flow theme.

In the case of the Ryuga, a Japanese word that translates as “gracious flow,” the textured body panels and interior evoke the waves and ripples from carefully raked Japanese gravel gardens, whose waves of stone seem to mimic water. Engineers might snicker, but according to Laurens van den Acker, Mazda’s design chief, the Ryuga’s wavy headlights were inspired by blades of grass heavy with dew. "

[deacro]

Wow that the craziest idea yet by imanofpiano, its just a blue light to light up center consule. Happy thanksgiving to all you down south:)