My Mazda3 service intervals are 7500 miles

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: beer
My mazda3 now has about 3700 miles on it now. I figured I'd take it to the dealer for my first appoinment and then do the maintenance myself thereafter, but then I checked the manual and it's not due for 6 months/7500 miles.

Now Mazda wouldn't put in an interval that was harmful for my car, so should I end up waiting six months....but is there anything wrong with waiting six months for an oil change if mazda says that that's what you're supposed to do?

Very common in newer vehicles to have oil every 6mo/6k-7.5k miles. Don't worry about it.

Ditto.

 

[theMan]

i hate how these oild change places say, "3000 miles, 3000 miles, or your car will explode!!!" thats just rediculous. thats why the price of oil is so high. cars have been 5000 miles for 15 years or more.

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: mooncancook

Originally posted by: shortylickens
My Mazda 5 is 5000 miles.
Its been running fine for 46 thousand now.
I do exactly as the manual says. No problems.

How could you have done 46k mi on a Mazda 5?? i thought the car is just released a few months ago.

anyway I change oil for my Mazda 6s every 5k mi because 5k is easy to keep track of.

Mazda Protege5

 

[Lumathix]

Originally posted by: thirdeye

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: beer
My mazda3 now has about 3700 miles on it now. I figured I'd take it to the dealer for my first appoinment and then do the maintenance myself thereafter, but then I checked the manual and it's not due for 6 months/7500 miles.

Now Mazda wouldn't put in an interval that was harmful for my car, so should I end up waiting six months....but is there anything wrong with waiting six months for an oil change if mazda says that that's what you're supposed to do?

Very common in newer vehicles to have oil every 6mo/6k-7.5k miles. Don't worry about it.

What he said.

Although, I still stick to the 3k mile service just because.

Congratulations. Oil companies love people like you.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: gigapet
my bimmer is 15k service interval

assuming you actually check to make sure the oil level is good every so often.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: Riverhound777
The guy gave me some speach about how mazda puts some special additives into the oil and that your not supposed to have it changed till 3500 miles. I told him to just change the damn oil. Do they not want my business?

some do have special additives... I know honda uses a special oil out of the factory. However, mazda uses plain only semi-syn motocraft for these babies. And 5w30 ain't gunna do much other than hurt mileage a little. Besides, mobile's 5w30 is a very thin 30, close to a 20

 

[radioouman]

Nobody can really predict when an oil will break down, so why not change it at a safe interval?

You don't want to take any chances with oil sludge...