High Mileage CX-5s - report in

[madar]

I follow these guys a lot. Go to the 6:50 minute mark for his comment on Mazda.

 

[RedBaron]

Very interesting.

 

[madar]

Yes. 10k oil changes. Does not burn any oil.

Which Amsoil are you using? Signature Series, OE, 0w-20?

 

[docs03]

Signature series. I use amsoil in all my cars since 2003

 

[yrwei52]

Air cabin filters are cheaper, engine air filters are still up there. Even the Mazda online parts places are up there. I bought oil filters last year, ran me about $11. Geeezz

Have you shopped anything else lately? Almost everything goes up by not 5% or 10% , but 50% or 2X! And wait until the tariff goes into fully effect, the price for car parts will be even much higher!

 

[yrwei52]

Thats why I buy my air/cabin filters off Amazon for half the price!

But the aftermarket air / cabin filters at Amazon are also more expensive than a couple of years ago!

 

[ColoradoDriver]

But the aftermarket air / cabin filters at Amazon are also more expensive than a couple of years ago!

Everything is.

146,000 miles just about on mine. Needs an oil change at 147k, and 150k it will be time for spark plugs and transmission fluid again.

 

[yrwei52]

Everything is.

146,000 miles just about on mine. Needs an oil change at 147k, and 150k it will be time for spark plugs and transmission fluid again.

I assume you’d changed your coolant?

 

[ADS-B]

I assume you’d changed your coolant?

I have more than 180.000 miles on mine and never serviced the coolant.

 

[yrwei52]

I have more than 180.000 miles on mine and never serviced the coolant.

The recommended service interval for our FL-22 coolant is:

”Replace at first 192,000 km (120,000 miles) or 10 years; after
that, every 96,000 km (60,000 miles) or 5 years.”

 

[ColoradoDriver]

I assume you’d changed your coolant?

A bit after 120k. It's not time to again yet.

 

[hxdai]

Air cabin filters are cheaper, engine air filters are still up there. Even the Mazda online parts places are up there. I bought oil filters last year, ran me about $11. Geeezz

AEM washable filters FTW - young(and naive) me put on one of those "cold air intake" one, when/if that ever fails I'm going back to OEM air box and a square washable one all the way to the end

 

[hxdai]

my '14 AWD just hit 96k - by no means a "high mileage" one but years of northeast US has started to show. never needed to change spark plug/trans fluid, is now the time to start thinking about that?

 

[yrwei52]

my '14 AWD just hit 96k - by no means a "high mileage" one but years of northeast US has started to show. never needed to change spark plug/trans fluid, is now the time to start thinking about that?

I definitely would change the spark plugs and the engine FL-22 coolant as both have past due based on Mazda’s maintenance schedule. The same on changing the gear oil in front transfer case and real differential since you have an AWD. Although Mazda doesn’t say, but I’d as least do the ATF drain-and-fill a couple of times or three at 96K miles.