2020 Mazda CX-3 Maintenance Schedule
This model year’s tables are marked exactly as the CX-3 before it, with one difference that a customer feels: Mazda removes the footnote that scheduled a rear differential oil replacement under towing, dusty and short-trip conditions, and prints only the submerged-in-water note in its place. 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.
The Conditional Rear Differential Oil Replacement Is Gone
The model year before this one attaches two footnotes to the rear differential oil row, and the second schedules a replacement under four named conditions. This model year attaches one: if this component has been submerged in water, the oil should be replaced. Mazda publishes no mileage for the row here at all, so this page states none — and towing and dusty, sandy or wet driving are exactly the conditions a Mobile owner asks about, which is why the difference is worth saying out loud.
The Rows Are Still Printed
Rear differential oil and transfer oil both still appear on this model year’s two tables, carrying that footnote and no mark in any column. The following model year removes both rows and the footnote with them, so this is the last CX-3 table they appear on.
Nothing Else Moved
Every row’s mark set is identical to the model year before it — the comparison was made per page rather than off a diff, because several rows change pages between the two printings. Schedule 1 keeps its 12 month or 7,500 mile ceiling, the severe disc brakes stay at every 5,000 miles, and the severe cabin air filter stays at 25,000 miles.
The Kit Still Reads “If Installed”
The emergency flat tire repair kit row on this model year is printed if installed and inspected annually. The following model year prints if equipped instead. It is a wording change rather than an interval change, and it is recorded here so that the two pages are not assumed identical because their numbers are.
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 2020 Mazda CX-3 owner’s manual, document CX-3_8JC8-EA-19J_Edition2, section pages 429 to 433, and from no other model year’s manual. Mazda’s standalone scheduled-maintenance document for this model year agrees with it. 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_8JC8-EA-19J_Edition2_old 2019-10-28 — 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.
Every 5,000 Miles or 6 Months
Engine oil and filter on the fixed basis, disc brakes, 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. Tire rotation runs at the same cadence and is printed as a sentence: rotate every 8,000 km (5,000 miles).
Every 15,000 Miles or 18 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 same rows sit at every 15,000 miles or 24 months on Schedule 1 — the mileage matches and the month figure does not, which is exactly why the two tables are quoted separately.
Cabin Air Filter — 25,000 Miles
Mazda prints, on this model year’s Schedule 2: replace every 40,000 km (25,000 miles) or 2 years. That is the CX-3’s own figure and it is not the one Mazda prints for every other crossover of the same era, so a severe cabin filter borrowed from a showroom neighbour is wrong for this car. Schedule 1 replaces the cabin air filter every 15,000 miles or 24 months.
The Longer Severe Rows
Every 20,000 miles or 24 months — drive belts. Every 30,000 miles or 36 months — air filter, and hoses and tubes for emission. At 35,000 miles or 42 months, once — exhaust system and heat shields. Spark plugs and engine coolant carry the same figures they carry on Schedule 1, and the emergency flat tire repair kit is inspected annually. Mazda adds one note to the severe air filter row: if the vehicle is operated in very dusty or sandy areas, clean and if necessary replace the air filter more often than the recommended intervals.
2020 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
Its marks are the CX-3’s settled ones, but Mazda removed a published figure here: the rear differential oil no longer carries a conditional 30,000-mile replacement under towing, dusty and short-trip conditions. A page written from the model year before it would state an interval Mazda does not publish for this car, and one written from the model year after it would leave out two rows Mazda still prints.
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, with the disc brakes on every one of those columns.
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.
2020 Mazda CX-3 Maintenance Schedule Questions
What is the maintenance schedule for a 2020 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 marks each row at the columns it falls on. Schedule 2, for severe driving, runs on a grid of 6 months and 5,000 miles.
Does the rear differential oil have a replacement interval on a 2020 Mazda CX-3?⌄
No. Mazda prints the row with no mark in any column and one footnote: if this component has been submerged in water, the oil should be replaced. The model year before it also carries a conditional 30,000-mile replacement under four named conditions, and this one does not, so nothing is carried across.
How often is the cabin air filter replaced on a 2020 Mazda CX-3?⌄
Every 15,000 miles or 24 months on Schedule 1. On Schedule 2 Mazda prints: replace every 40,000 km (25,000 miles) or 2 years.
Does this page apply to a newer CX-3?⌄
No. The following model year removes the rear differential oil and transfer oil rows entirely. 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 2020 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.
