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When I took the car in at about 30k miles, I asked the service guy about changing the fuel filter. He looked it up - it did not fill me with confidence that he had to look it up - and then told me that it was located inside the fuel pump which in turn was inside or atop the fuel tank and that...

The handbook that came with my Mazdaspeed 3 has no recommended intervals for such things as transmission fluid. I have 45k on the odometer. I do the oil and filter change, synthetic oil, just shy of every 5k miles. I replaced the air engine filter at 20k and again at 32k. I'll do that...

I have a 2008 Speedthree. Got the smoking exhaust problem a year into ownership. Changing to a thin, synthetic oil fixed it temporarily. When it came back a year later, they installed the ventilation kit and it hasn't smoked since, i.e., since last year. My married daughter wants to buy the...

The dealer wants $329 to do a bunch of stuff I don't think need doing and I was going to have stuff done on an a la carte basis. (BTW, my oil and filter were just changed after a 5,600 mi r/t mile cross country trip, I have had the brake fluid replaced and ditto for the cabin air filter.) Here...

When I bought my Speed3 about three years ago, May of 2008, I read in several reviews of the Speed3 not to even think about driving in snow with the stock tires and, on the recommendation of my tire guy, I replaced them with Pirelli Pzero Nero tires. Today, they were checked and showed 4/32"...