Schedule II — Special Operating- Page 305

Maintenance

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Schedule II — Special Operating
Conditions

If your driving habits 

FREQUENTLY

include one or more of the following
conditions:

S

Short trips of

 less

 than 10 miles

(16 km) when outside temperatures
remain below freezing.

S

Towing a trailer, or carrying maxi-
mum loads.

S

Operating in severe dust conditions.

S

Operating during 

hot weather

 in

stop-and-go ‘‘rush-hour’’ traffic.

S

Extensive idling, such as police, taxi
or door-to-door delivery service.

S

High speed operation with a fully
loaded vehicle (max. GVW).

S

Off-road operation.

Change ENGINE OIL AND OIL
FILTER every 3 months or 3,000 miles
(4,800 km) whichever occurs first.

NOTE

Idling the engine for extended peri-
ods will accumulate more hours of
use on your vehicle than is actually
indicated by the mileage odometer.
Consequently, the odometer reading

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can be often misleading when deter-
mining the right time to change
your engine oil and filter. If you are
using your vehicle in a manner which
allows it to remain stationary while
the engine is running for long periods
(door-to-door delivery, taxi, police,
power/utility company trucks, or
similar duty), then Mazda recom-
mends you increase the frequency of
oil and filter changes to an interval
equivalent to 200 ENGINE HOURS
of use. Since most vehicles are not
equipped with hour-meters, it may
be necessary for you to approximate
your idle time and plan oil/filter
changes accordingly.