You had a 318ti clubsport right?
I was looking at f22’s at the beginning of the pandemic, even m235i’s were dumping in the high teens/low 20’s in so cal.
Bought one of the first sets of A/S4’s for the Mazdaspeed3 when they came out July 2020. Getting ready to replace them now after 35k miles. Several Tahoe trips, lots of rain driving and spirited sprints back and forth to LA. I would not dream of using these in HPDE or even canyon driving. These...
Update. Put about 22k on my set so far. Rotating pretty aggressively at 3500 mile intervals. So far they are wearing great. I can probably get another 15k out of them. Compared to the 4S they replaced they are wearing much better (those lasted 20k-ish).
They aren’t as responsive or grippy but...
I believe user M Compct also had a gen 1. He posted plenty of mobil 1 uoa’s dispelling many myths about fuel dilution. I love the little car, plan to keep her until at least 200k at which point hoping Bronco is out and debugged.
2012 Mazda Mazdaspeed3
159,000 miles
out goes Valvoline Synthetic High Mileage 5w30 just under 5 quarts
in goes Rotella Gas Truck 5w-30 full fill 5.7 quarts
filter change the usual MC FL-910S.
i regularly got people at gas stations etc who were surprised when i told them my e34 m5 was model year 1990. they couldn't believe it. this was circa 2012.
Can’t speak for the new turbo engines but this is a well documented and well photographed issue for the DISI engines (2.3 liter turbo in the Mazdaspeed 3, 6, and CX-7). I just had my valves cleaned at 150k and they were nasty. More importantly I had the injectors cleaned and flow benched which...