Oil Change

[JMG]

Very basic question for those of us that are a little bit new car challenged. How often should I change the oil, and what kind of oil is needed for the CX-5?

I have had the car now for over a year but just hit 5K miles the other day. No indicators about oil change or anything else yet have popped up.

Thank you.

 

[erhayes]

5K is the recommended severe schedule recommendation unless you have an oil life monitor. 0w20 oil is the one on your oil fill cap. I use Pennzoil Platinum and a factory or Fram Ultra filter.

Suggest you read your owners manual to familiarize yourself with your vehicle. Ed

 

[yrwei52]

Having your 2017 CX-5 for 12 months / 5,000 miles without any service reminder displayed? Use infotainment system and select the icon on the home screen to display the Applications, then select Vehicle Status Monitor、Maintenance to display the maintenance list screen, Scheduled、Tire Rotation and Oil Change. Check and see how many miles left for each tab.

For "Oil Change" with "Flexible" setting, the oil change interval is up to 12 months or 7,500 miles whichever comes first. You should see "Oil change due" message with wrench indicator in instrument cluster very soon unless the reset has been done in certain point.

Mazda recommends Mazda moly, or Castrol 0W-20 full synthetic oil.

 

[ColoradoDriver]

0w20 oil. Any quality 0w20 oil will be fine. I use Castrol. Some use the Mazda Moly oil, but it will cost more.

Use a Mazda oil filter as they are cheap. There are 2 available, the one made in Thailand with part number: 1WPE-14-302. The other is the Mazda Value Line filter, made in Mexico. Both are good, but if given the choice, get the Thailand filter as it seems to be of better overall quality. Again, the Mexico filter is still fine though. As always, use a new crush washer on the drain plug each change. They are $1/each.

Owners manual has 2 different schedules which are 5k intervals for the severe schedule, or 7.5k intervals.

I don't know anything about these oil monitors the new CX-5's have in the infotainment system, sorry.

Also, I'd read your owner's manual is it has all the maintenance schedules listed. One caveat being the transmission fluid (some folks leave it alone, others do periodic drain and fills), and it's not explicit on when you should change the rear differential and transfer case oil, but that's a good thing to do what...every 30k miles or so? Someone can correct me if wrong there on the interval.

 

[yrwei52]

⋯ Owners manual has 2 different schedules which are 5k intervals for the severe schedule, or 7.5k intervals.

For 2017~2018 gen-2 CX-5, Mazda uses Flexible oil change interval for both Schedule 1 normal driving condition and Schedule 2 severe driving condition.

Fixed oil change interval is used only under Schedule 2 severe driving condition which is 5,000 miles or 6 months whichever comes first.

Theres no routine maintenance schedule from Mazda unless both front transfer case and rear differential have been submerged in water.

 

[ColoradoDriver]

For 2017~2018 gen-2 CX-5, Mazda uses *Flexible* oil change interval for both *Schedule 1* normal driving condition and *Schedule 2* severe driving condition.

Fixed oil change interval is used only under *Schedule 2* severe driving condition which is 5,000 miles or 6 months whichever comes first.

There*s no routine maintenance schedule from Mazda unless both front transfer case and rear differential have been submerged in water.

Thanks for the clarification.

I saw that as well, hence my statement of not otherwise being explicit, though I did forget about the submersion in water. Still seems like a good idea to change that out, but OP will be quite a ways away from that.

 

[yrwei52]

I saw that as well, hence my statement of not otherwise being explicit, though I did forget about the submersion in water. Still seems like a good idea to change that out, but OP will be quite a ways away from that.

Yes theres no specific maintenance schedule on front transfer case and rear differential like automatic transmission fluid, but I plan to change these gear lubricants at 50K miles. Especially the gear lub in every rear differential from factory seems to be very low according to those who checked and changed rear differential oil.

 

[Conrad 16.5]

If only Mazda had included some type of paper manual with our new cars that had info about how often to change the oil and what type of oil to use...

 

[VQ35DE]

Lol

 

[ColoradoDriver]

If only Mazda had included some type of paper manual with our new cars that had info about how often to change the oil and what type of oil to use...

(RTM)

 

[Avoidin Deer]

If only Mazda had included some type of paper manual with our new cars that had info about how often to change the oil and what type of oil to use...

Mine came with one.

Maybe it's an option...friggin' everything else is.

 

[erhayes]

Get the "ON-LINE" owners manual. Ed

 

[Avoidin Deer]

Get the "ON-LINE" owners manual. Ed

2018 CX-5 manual for USA market: https://www.mazdausa.com/static/manuals/2018/cx5/index.html