Just hit 202k miles on my 2013 mazda 3 2.0L. No problems yet. Only have went through a few sets of tires and a battery. I change the oil every 5k miles.
Yeah, also curious to know if you touched the transmission fluid or not.Just hit 202k miles on my 2013 mazda 3 2.0L. No problems yet. Only have went through a few sets of tires and a battery. I change the oil every 5k miles.
Yeah, also curious to know if you touched the transmission fluid or not.
You keep calling it a "fluid failure", but wouldn't anything fluid related just cause the mechanical failures. Suppose his transmission craps out tomorrow...the first thing they'd say is he didn't change the fluid.I doubt he did because he even lists his tires, battery, and oil change info. Seems odd to leave atf out if he did it. Also, it will blow peoples minds as we still have 0 failures of atf in the skyactiv auto transmission.
You keep calling it a "fluid failure", but wouldn't anything fluid related just cause the mechanical failures. Suppose his transmission craps out tomorrow...the first thing they'd say is he didn't change the fluid.
Fluid failure would be a failure traced to fluid in a definitive manner. An example would be, say, bearing or other wear in absence of mechanical defect. A nonfluid failure would be something the fluid did not influence, such as the failures that occurred in earlier skyactiv transmissions due to part defect.
My fluid was very dark at 71k miles.Ive seen posts of CEL codes thrown due to dirty fluid. Not an outright failure, but concerning to me nonetheless.
Yeah makes sense. Since I did 3 drain and fills at 71k since I had not done any previous service before that, I'm thinking I'll do 1 drain and fill every 30-40k from now on.I agree. While color isnt necessarily an indicator of quality, my fluid came out a dark maroon color at 51k. It was enough to make me triple check the manual and bottles to ensure blue FZ was supposed to go back in lol. Dudes over at BITOG thought 50k was a good time to change and do 25k after that based on the UOA yrwei shared (but Ill stick with 50k overall). I remember one of them mentioning the Blackstone analysis doesnt include particle count and that would likely floor us.
3x for me again at 100k if it looks like it did at 50k ; )
Auto. No fluid change. Atleast 90% of it is highway mileage since I bought it.(had 40,888 miles at the time)
Mazda says don't change it.At what mileage is the auto trans fluid supposed to be changed? And by change, is it just a drain and fill or an actual flush?
At what mileage is the auto trans fluid supposed to be changed? And by change, is it just a drain and fill or an actual flush?