No. I just do her oil changes at 6,000 miles or 6 months, whichever comes first. She has always been within a few hundred miles give or take at the 6 month mark. Some may say that's overkill with PP and a Fram XG3614, but it's cheap insurance for $70 per year.
Mazda 3 Oil Filter
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Here is a double c&p! You even posted on it!
Two Motorcraft FL400S Filters Cut Open
The first filter was used on a 1997 Saturn SL1 SOHC for about 3,000 miles over the course of 12 months. Oil was Havoline High Mileage. Here's the second filter. It was used on a 2002 Ford Windstar 3.8L for about 5,000 miles over the course of 9 months. Oil was Castrol GTX...
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Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant a Mazda 3 2.0 factory oil filter.
Search function works good these days.
Cut Open - Mazda OEM BT115010-7600 @ 7,700kms (2016 CX-3)
OEM filter off the wifes 2016 Mazda CX-3 after about 7,700 kms. Oil changes every 8,000kms as per Mazda while under warranty. 34,500 kms on the engine. Probably won't do an oil analysis until it's coming up on warranty expiry. Whatever 0w20 the Mazda dealership put in was drained. I put another...
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Sorry, mines broke.
Had a 2010 Mazda in the home fleet for 7 years. Decent car. Used OE filters, and 5W-20 PP. No issues.
Good find.
Good find.
That link was a Thai Denso. Never a favourite of mine. In fact its the reason I am on this forum. Thai Denso Oil filter NOT working and starving engine.
I hope you can get a Mazda Tokyo Roki filter at the dealer - they highly regarded as a great filter - at least in build and construction.
here is a link to one.
MAZDA OIL FILTER CUT OPEN
Another oil filter from member Loi. Miles in use was 3,1xx as accidentally threw box filter was in trash Looks good i say
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You should get that looked at.Sorry, mines broke.
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It's actually quite the opposite, they have a known problem and quite often use so much oil they run their bottom ends.
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Your example of one is highly accurate.
And you've provided less evidence than him.
Read here: http://www.duratecnc.co.uk/?p=146
I rebuild these engines for a living, it's a massive problem.
So the engine's not the problem, it's a culture problem in the UK that Brits don't know how to check their own oil levels, repeatedly running a car low can result in additional ring wear that makes consumption worse and worse the more times you run it low, in the US duratec/MZR engines don't really consume oil or fail spectacularly, apparently as stupid as Americans are about cars, the average American still has enough sense to pull a dipstick and check it on occasion and knows that a knocking noise is very bad. Plus you said your an Engine builder, on an Island where smaller displacement and smaller cylinder count engines are very popular, "I've seen" is still not evidence of a widespread problem, It's merely confirmation bias. The UOA section on this site has shown time and time again that duratec are very easy on oil, and as the mileage creeps up, maybe a quart every 5000-10000mi is normal consumption. The OP here is clearly a DIY'er that knowns how to check his oil level, so why bring up "I see a lot of these engines that are very popular on the Isle of Britain fail because Europeans and the Brits don't know how to check their own oil."
No it's global. Go onto any US Mk3 Miata based page or forum and ask about 'rod knock' as they call it, it's rife.
If you want to get into a debate over the stupidity of Americans then start a thread on it. Although I can see it here, it's off topic really.
It's an engine design problem.
Running an engine low on oil does not effect the rings in anyway as you claim, that's utter garbage.
Better to be thought of as a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt applies here very much.
It's not a problem and you're just spitting off you own bias as someone that only sees failed engines all day, the 2.0/2.3/2.5 in Ford/Mazda cars are well known for their reliability and being not very hard on oil. The only problem I've seen presented is "I see engines that people have ran low on oil", that's on the owner for not changing the oil, I guess American engine builders that see them don't go online spouting off garbage like this, because American engine builders and Mechanics know that running a car low on oil is almost always the owner's fault, only a European would grow so complacent in blaming manufacturers for everything to misplace the blame. May I add that you have replied to a 6 month old thread and have a very low post count to interject bull crap and link to your website, your intent seems to be to shill your own site not add any thing of value to the conversation that was had here.
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