Oil filter on I4
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As I understand it, you need a special tool to change the oil in the I-4. I would take to your dealers service department about this. Why that is, I'm not sure. I've heard that it is illegal in Japan to change your own oil(maybe in other countries as well); so since the U.S. I-4 is the same engine as Japan, that could be the reason since Mazda Japan designed the I-4. I have a V6, and since its a Duratec block, it takes a standard filter that Mazda and Ford share.
As I understand it, you need a special tool to change the oil in the I-4. I would take to your dealers service department about this. Why that is, I'm not sure. I've heard that it is illegal in Japan to change your own oil(maybe in other countries as well); so since the U.S. I-4 is the same engine as Japan, that could be the reason since Mazda Japan designed the I-4. I have a V6, and since its a Duratec block, it takes a standard filter that Mazda and Ford share.
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That is exactly what owner's manual says: take your car to dealership to change filter because it requires special tool. Simultaneously, the same manual describes how to drain oil from the engine. And the same manual specifies that the oil filter should be changed at the same time as the oil!
Sounds like no logic to me.
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That is exactly what owner's manual says: take your car to dealership to change filter because it requires special tool. Simultaneously, the same manual describes how to drain oil from the engine. And the same manual specifies that the oil filter should be changed at the same time as the oil!
Sounds like no logic to me.
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Maybe I wasn't clear, I thought it was not legal to change your oil personally (ie in your garage) and that it had to be done by someone professional (akin to Jiffy Lube) in Japan. Again, this is something I just thought I remembered reading, I could be wrong. I was just trying to think of why you would need a tool to change the I-4 oil, and not the 6. I have heard from several people that old Japanese cars that were made in Japan were pretty notorious for being very difficult to do you own oil changes on, again a way of keeping people from changing there own oil in Japan due to the law....
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Maybe I wasn't clear, I thought it was not legal to change your oil personally (ie in your garage) and that it had to be done by someone professional (akin to Jiffy Lube) in Japan. Again, this is something I just thought I remembered reading, I could be wrong. I was just trying to think of why you would need a tool to change the I-4 oil, and not the 6. I have heard from several people that old Japanese cars that were made in Japan were pretty notorious for being very difficult to do you own oil changes on, again a way of keeping people from changing there own oil in Japan due to the law....
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If I can't change my own oil, I will hate the car. No matter how hard I try, I seriously will have lost all respect for the car.
I'm being quite serious here. I love the car, but not being able to change my own oil is ludicrous.
If I can't change my own oil, I will hate the car. No matter how hard I try, I seriously will have lost all respect for the car.
I'm being quite serious here. I love the car, but not being able to change my own oil is ludicrous.
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I don't have a 4cyl so your guess is a good as mine on what filter it takes. But I would suspect the "Special Tool" is simply a filter wrench of some type.
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Not sure what you are looking for. On the filter, when I went in to get a filter for my 6s the guy at the parts counter said something like "One the those is a cartridge, isn't it?" He was just sort of thinking out loud. Since my car was the first 6 the dealer had sold, I didn't hold not knowing against him.
I don't have a 4cyl so your guess is a good as mine on what filter it takes. But I would suspect the "Special Tool" is simply a filter wrench of some type.
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