Feel Free to Use Almost Any Oil You Want in This Mazda

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro) 12/15/2017 at 12:00 • Filed to: motor oil, engine oil, oil, mazda

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Takuro Spirit > Urambo Tauro 12/15/2017 at 12:02

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OP’s image is much funnier

Urambo Tauro > Takuro Spirit 12/15/2017 at 12:03

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Yeah, I’ve already added that to my next JRitS roundup.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Urambo Tauro 12/15/2017 at 12:29

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Had that same picture in the RX-8 manual, I went with 10w40, since the engine gets quite hot

46and2aheadofme > Urambo Tauro 12/15/2017 at 12:51

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My M cars manuals say don’t even think about it PLEBE, go to dealer.

J/K, but it’s 10W-60 only, liqui moly for me.

All my other cars/trucks have had charts like that, but I’ve never seen that many oil options.

diplodicus > Urambo Tauro 12/15/2017 at 13:19

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I’ve heard they’re running those crazy low viscosity oils for minuscule fuel efficiency gains.  

My e30 has a similar chart to that mazda. The weird thing is the owners manual and the bentley manual give different temp ranges.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Urambo Tauro 12/15/2017 at 15:05

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That is insane. The Landy’s is much more... reasonable.

bhtooefr > diplodicus 12/15/2017 at 15:11

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2% better than 0W-20 is nothing to sneeze at.

I mean, the Camry LE Hybrid is at 51.7126 MPG combined (I used the unrounded number from the fuel economy data files).

The average American driver drives 13,476 miles per year, per the FHWA. That’s 260.59 gallons per year.

2% more fuel consumption would be 265.81 gallons per year - sure, it’s not much over 5 gallons, but it is something.

Where this engine family’s lubrication choices could make huge gains, though, are in less efficient vehicles. As an extreme example, let’s use a Tundra 5.7 4WD, at 14.4788 combined - at that 13,476 mi/year, that’s 930.74 gallons. Simply moving from 0W-20 to 0W-16, getting that 2% improvement, would get you down to 912.49 gallons, and saving 18+ gallons a year is nothing to sneeze at. (Mind you, there’s a lot more room for improvement in that truck, and if there’s new V8s in this engine family for the Tundra to use, expect it to improve much more than that.)

Urambo Tauro > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 12/15/2017 at 15:43

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Wow, “only” seven options there!

Most (if not all) of my cars have had a chart like this: