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Not sure when it was fixed. 🤩 Last year I reached out to Mazda USA about this and was told to contact Mazda Japan. I wasn't able to structure legit contact info that is required to submit an inquiry there.

Cut open the Bosch filter (large) today along with a Pentius (small) from the CX-3. The Bosch filter was on for two years and worked for maybe 500 miles. Nothing alarming that I can tell. It was almost too wide for the baby visegrip mounted to the bench on my patio.

The maintenance requirements for severe driving conditions represent a higher standard of care for the same engine. It would be difficult for Mazda to deny warranty coverage on the ground that the owner has been more careful/diligent than most. 🤦

My 2017 NA 2.0 used 0w20 every 7K/8K miles for around 160K miles at typical mpg. If I knew better, I would have switched to 5w30 every 5K miles much sooner. It really sucks to have this worry/concern hanging over our heads. I was lucky that nothing went wrong during the warranty period. At...

It was a really weird episode. I experimented with different apps and still prefer OBD Scanner Pro over Torque Pro. Read the developer's notes more carefully and bought a $30 adapter that was listed as compatible. No DTC found with the new adapter. The vLinker adapter offers its own app to...

That shop in Berkeley is quite a gem!

At 179,340 miles with 1.5 quarts of VRP and the rest Castrol GTX, both full synthetic 5w30. Yes I understand that different brands offer different additive packages. Going forward, 3K with lowest cost full syn oil plus one of the 3 aftermarket filters left on my shelf.

Thank you. Sometimes my reading is not connected to comprehension. 😳

Good point. I never looked into where my CX-3 was made. When I worked at the dealership, some customers would specify that they only wanted units (model specific) from Japan. I recall it was the 3s that were made in both. The manager would search the inventory based on VIN to meet that request...

Wix 57002 is the only one that I am aware of. Was about to order until I saw the cut-open video. I do not understand why the filter element has to be so short. I had a royal purple filter like that. I do not know if Wix 57002 is rated for turbo...

Experimenting with Torque Pro right now. I felt challenged when the Eco Widget showed that I was driving like a mum and dad's taxi. For a very brief period, it showed "Sunday Driver." After an hour-long drive with two crashes leading to slow crawls, my final score is Green Machine. 😳 What other...

I was obsessed with filters. Cut open quite a few filters and watched videos of more getting cut open. My focus has been with the filters for NA 2.0. The OEM design makes sense. Nothing else on the market is close. The Wix filter has a much shorter filter media, though without a adbv. The next...

I understand the importance of flow on Skyactiv engines and appreciate your earlier post about shorter OCI. I wonder if there are two parts of the flow: fresh oil entering the top inlet holes into the filter media, and exiting through the inner tube/core/support. Do they both matter? 😅

Let me send a distress signal for more help... @sm1ke 😳😳

In the thread linked above, someone noted the MAF sensor as the culprit. You can explore that aspect yourself. If all your cylinders are misfiring, the cause is hopefully something other than a dead cylinder. I learned recently that the scanning process is not absolutely precise/perfect. The...