Recent content by Tony_P

I attempted a pulse repair with a cheap Chinese eBay charger while the battery was still connected and it fried the diodes in my alternator. It's a 2010 Mazda 3 with only 100,000 km (65,000 miles) on it. Well looked after car, a very mild weather environment where it's lived it's whole life...

Only you can answer that. I'm in Australia where FZ fluid can only be bought from the dealer at massively inflated prices. Maxlife is an order of degrees cheaper, and given the CX5 that I linked to above has clocked half a million miles, I'm confident in aftermarket fluids, providing the...

And to anyone worried about using aftermarket fluid in a CX5, here is a Facebook thread about a 2012 CX5 with 800,000 kilometres (500,000 miles) on the clock. The mechanic says he flushes the trans every 50,000ks with Castrol Transmax ATF DEXRON VI Meccon LV Multivehicle. Castrol specs here...

The specs for the Mobil 1™ Synthetic LV ATF HP look like it's a great OEM replacement. Mobil specs are KV@40°C - 27, KV@100°C - 5.7, viscosity index 152 vs OEM Idemitsu KV@40°C - 25, KV@100°C - 5.5, viscosity index 167. I would add it to my list above tig1 but it won't let me edit it now. Great...

https://www.idemitsulubricants.com/product/atf-type-m Type M/MV fluid (for MV trans) KE@40 is 33.8. The genuine factory FZ fluid for your transmission KE@40 is 25. The oil is much too thick when cold to be suitable, although this post is from 2022. I'm not sure why Nicholas above has revived it...

The spec sheet was published in 2012 and is available here: https://kemi.is/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TOTAL-MAZDA-ORIGINAL-OIL-ATF-FZ-TDS.pdf Idemitsu FZ specs are KV@40°C - 25, KV@100°C - 5.5, viscosity index 167. Valvoline Maxlife specs here...