2018 Mazda CX-3 Maintenance Schedule
This is the model year Mazda rescaled the CX-3’s normal schedule. Every Schedule 1 column moves from ten-thousand-mile steps to 7,500-mile ones, the oil ceiling drops to 12 months or 7,500 miles, and the second fixed Schedule 1 table disappears. Its severe table is unchanged. This page states that model year’s own tables and no other year’s.
What Is Different About This Model Year
The reason this model year has its own page instead of being read off a later CX-3’s.
Mazda Published This Table for This Model Year Alone
Mazda revised the published schedule at this model year. It revised it again at the next one, so this table belongs to this model year and to no other. What that means for the table below is set out in the cards that follow.
Schedule 1 Is Rescaled
Mazda reprints the Schedule 1 grid for this model year as 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84 and 96 months against 7,500, 15,000, 22,500, 30,000, 37,500, 45,000, 52,500 and 60,000 miles. The model year before it runs the same eight columns in ten-thousand-mile steps, so every column figure moves even on the rows whose marks did not — the disc brakes go from every 10,000 miles to every 7,500, and the chassis rows from every 20,000 to every 15,000.
The Oil Ceiling Drops to 7,500 Miles
Both tables print: replace when the wrench indicator light is ON, with a maximum interval of 12 months or 12,000 km (7,500 miles). The model year before it prints a ceiling of 12 months or 16,000 km (10,000 miles). The tire rotation ceiling moves with it, from 8,000 km (5,000 miles) to 12,000 km (7,500 miles), and the exhaust row moves from every 40,000 miles to a single mark at 37,500 miles or 60 months.
The Second Schedule 1 Table Is Gone
The model year before this one prints a separate fixed-interval Schedule 1 in full. This one prints no such table, and the framing changes with it: engine oil flexible maintenance stops being available for U.S.A. and Puerto Rico residents on request and becomes selected by default for them.
The Severe Marks Did Not Move
Every one of Schedule 2’s twelve-column runs is the same as the model year before it — disc brakes every 10,000 miles, the chassis rows every 20,000, drive belts every 30,000. The boundary here belongs to Schedule 1 alone, which is worth stating plainly because it is the half of the book most people never open.
How This Model Year’s Table Is Built
Mazda’s own structure, described so you can read your own manual with confidence.
What Mazda asks for at your mileage
Updates Mazda has issued for your car
What was done, and what comes next
Schedule 1 — Normal Driving
This model year’s normal-driving table, grouped by the interval Mazda marks each row at.
Sourced from the Scheduled Maintenance (U.S.A., Canada, and Puerto Rico) section of the 2018 Mazda CX-3 owner’s manual, document CX-3_8GA5-EA-17F_Edition1, section pages 412 to 416, and from no other model year’s manual. Mazda’s standalone scheduled-maintenance document for this model year matches it character for character. Your own manual is the authority for your vehicle; bring the mileage and our team will read the table with you. For this model year specifically, Mazda’s own book is document CX-3_8GA5-EA-17F_Edition1 2017-4-7 — the one to check your vehicle against.
Which Schedule Applies to Your CX-3
On this model year the answer is a property of the whole car, not of one row.
Mazda’s Own Condition List
Repeated short-distance driving; driving in dusty conditions; driving with extended use of brakes; driving in areas where salt or other corrosive materials are used; driving on rough or muddy roads; extended periods of idling or low-speed operation; driving for long periods in cold temperatures or extremely humid climates; driving in extremely hot conditions; driving in mountainous conditions continually. Mazda prints: follow Schedule 1 if none of these apply, and if any do apply, follow Schedule 2.
It Is the Whole Car, Not One Row
On this car a single condition moves the entire schedule to Schedule 2 — the oil, the disc brakes and every chassis row with it. Mazda’s newer books do something different and map each condition to specific items, leaving every other row on its normal interval. Two different models of severe service, and neither may be written the other one’s way.
Flexible and Fixed Are a Separate Question
Mazda prints, for this model year: engine oil flexible maintenance is selected by default for U.S.A. and Puerto Rico residents, and if either extended periods of idling or low-speed operation such as a police car, taxi or driving-school car, or driving in dusty conditions applies, follow Schedule 2 with engine oil fixed maintenance. So a dusty-conditions car is on Schedule 2 and on the fixed 5,000-mile oil interval rather than on the wrench light.
Rows That Are Not for This Market
Mazda routes Canada residents to Schedule 2 outright. That is a market routing rather than a statement about how a car is driven in Mobile, and it is not quoted as one here. Which of the two U.S. tables your CX-3 is on is a question about how it is driven, and our service team will go through the condition list with you.
Schedule 2 — Severe Driving
The severe-driving table for this model year, unchanged in every mark from the model year before it.
Every 5,000 Miles or 6 Months
Engine oil and filter on the fixed basis, engine coolant level, brake and clutch fluid level, tire inflation pressure and tire wear, function of all lights, all locks and hinges lubricated, and washer fluid level. The flexible alternative on this table carries the same 12 month or 12,000 km (7,500 mile) ceiling Schedule 1 does.
Disc Brakes Every 10,000 Miles
Mazda marks the severe disc-brake inspection at every other column on this model year — every 10,000 miles or 12 months. The following model year moves it to every column, every 5,000 miles, and that is the boundary a page can get wrong in the expensive direction. It is a Schedule 2 figure and is stated here as one; Schedule 1 inspects the disc brakes every 7,500 miles.
Every 20,000 Miles or 24 Months
Fuel lines and hoses, brake lines, hoses and connections, steering operation and linkages, front and rear suspension with ball joints and wheel bearing axial play, driveshaft dust boots, and the bolts and nuts on the chassis and body.
The Longer Severe Rows
Every 30,000 miles or 36 months — drive belts. At 40,000 miles or 48 months, once — hoses and tubes for emission. Every 45,000 miles or 5 years — exhaust system and heat shields, printed as a sentence rather than marked. The air filter and the tire rotation are performed at the oil change with ceilings of 36 months or 37,500 miles and 8,000 km (5,000 miles). The cabin air filter is printed as replace every 40,000 km (25,000 miles) or 2 years.
2018 Mazda CX-3 Maintenance Schedule Near Mobile, AL
Dean McCrary Mazda works from this model year’s own factory maintenance schedule at our Mazda service center in Mobile.
Why This Model Year Has Its Own Page
Mazda rescaled Schedule 1 here. Its eight columns move to 7,500-mile steps, the oil ceiling drops to 12 months or 7,500 miles, and the second fixed Schedule 1 table disappears. The severe table did not move at all, so this model year is half of one CX-3 schedule and half of another and cannot be read off either neighbour.
Schedule 1 and Schedule 2
Schedule 1 is the normal-driving table and hangs off a maximum interval of 12 months or 7,500 miles. Schedule 2 is the severe-driving table and marks its shortest rows at 6 months or 5,000 miles. On this model year’s wording a single severe condition moves the whole car onto Schedule 2.
Booking and Pricing
Service pricing moves, so it lives on the service offers page rather than being written into this one — what you read there is current. Book through the service scheduler, or see the rest of what we do at the Mazda service center.
2018 Mazda CX-3 Maintenance Schedule Questions
What is the maintenance schedule for a 2018 Mazda CX-3?⌄
Mazda prints two tables for this model year. Schedule 1, for normal driving, hangs off a maximum interval of 12 months or 12,000 km (7,500 miles) and runs on eight columns from 7,500 to 60,000 miles. Schedule 2, for severe driving, runs on twelve columns from 5,000 to 60,000 miles in six-month steps.
How often are the disc brakes inspected on a 2018 Mazda CX-3?⌄
Every 7,500 miles or 12 months on Schedule 1, and every 10,000 miles or 12 months on Schedule 2. The following model year moves the severe row to every 5,000 miles, so a schedule carried across from a newer CX-3 asks for the inspection twice as often as Mazda does for this car.
How often is the air filter replaced on a 2018 Mazda CX-3?⌄
Mazda does not mark it at a fixed column on this model year. Both tables print: replace at any equivalent timing of replacing engine oil, with a maximum interval of 36 months or 60,000 km (37,500 miles). That maximum is a ceiling rather than a schedule.
Does this page apply to a newer CX-3?⌄
No. The following model year moves the air filter, the cabin air filter and the tire rotation onto fixed grid marks and tightens every severe chassis row. Each CX-3 model year has its own page, and this one states the schedule printed in this model year’s own owner’s manual and nothing else.
How much is maintenance for a 2018 Mazda CX-3 at Dean McCrary Mazda?⌄
Service pricing moves, so it lives on one page that is kept current rather than being written into pages like this one. Current offers are on the service offers page, and our service team will confirm the figure for your CX-3 when you book.
