Feeling a little dumb right now and need some pointers.
I changed the oil on my wife's 2013 Mazda2. Not a whole lot came out, which seemed odd. It shouldn't have been particularly low. It was still black fluid, like you expect from old oil. Replaced the filter, lowered it down, and put in about 2.5 quarts.
Dipstick showed it was overfilled, and still had a lot of black oil on it.
Put it back on the stands, and I saw my mistake. When you crawl under the front of the car, there's a pan with a drain plug on the left, and then another pan closer to the oil filter on the right. I had pulled the left plug. The right plug is the correct one.
So I drained that one. Question is, what the hell is that second plug? It appears to be under the automatic transmission, but it doesn't seem to be AT fluid. The owner's manual says there's over 7 quarts of ATF in there; not nearly that much came out.
From this diagram:
https://www.jimellismazdaparts.com/...odel=14355&modelYear=2013&ukey_category=20236
What I pulled from appears to be part 19836, which is listed as "PAN, OIL", so was this just a secondary oil pan? Meaning that filling the oil back up is going to refill that pan, too? If so, should that pan also be drained with every oil change?
Don't want to drive it until I figure out what the hell is supposed to be in that pan. Feeling rather dumb about cars this week--screwed up my Miata's oil change, too (nothing catastrophic, just dumb).
I changed the oil on my wife's 2013 Mazda2. Not a whole lot came out, which seemed odd. It shouldn't have been particularly low. It was still black fluid, like you expect from old oil. Replaced the filter, lowered it down, and put in about 2.5 quarts.
Dipstick showed it was overfilled, and still had a lot of black oil on it.
Put it back on the stands, and I saw my mistake. When you crawl under the front of the car, there's a pan with a drain plug on the left, and then another pan closer to the oil filter on the right. I had pulled the left plug. The right plug is the correct one.
So I drained that one. Question is, what the hell is that second plug? It appears to be under the automatic transmission, but it doesn't seem to be AT fluid. The owner's manual says there's over 7 quarts of ATF in there; not nearly that much came out.
From this diagram:
https://www.jimellismazdaparts.com/...odel=14355&modelYear=2013&ukey_category=20236
What I pulled from appears to be part 19836, which is listed as "PAN, OIL", so was this just a secondary oil pan? Meaning that filling the oil back up is going to refill that pan, too? If so, should that pan also be drained with every oil change?
Don't want to drive it until I figure out what the hell is supposed to be in that pan. Feeling rather dumb about cars this week--screwed up my Miata's oil change, too (nothing catastrophic, just dumb).