2020 Mazda3 Hatchback Maintenance Schedule
On this model year Mazda rewrote the sentence that tells an owner when maintenance is due: every maintenance must be done when the display or wrench indication comes on, and that indication comes on before the maximum interval of 16,000 km (10,000 miles) or 12 months is reached. It is also the last model year whose table schedules a brake fluid replacement. This page states that model year’s own schedule and no other year’s.
What Is Different About This Model Year
The reason this model year has its own page instead of pointing at the current Mazda3 Hatchback’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 Wrench Light Becomes the Trigger
Mazda prints, for this model year: every maintenance must be done when the display or wrench indication comes on, and the indication will come on before reaching the maximum interval of 16,000 km (10,000 miles) or 12 months after the previous maintenance. The model year before it makes that mileage a deadline the owner is responsible for instead. Every mark and every printed figure in both tables is identical — the difference is the instruction.
The Last Scheduled Brake Fluid Replacement
Mazda schedules the brake fluid on a car with an electrical booster every 20,000 miles or 24 months. The following model year removes the row, so a Mazda3 Hatchback of this model year has a scheduled brake fluid replacement and a newer one does not. Nothing about the two pages looks different unless the row is named.
One Spark Plug Row
Mazda prints a single spark-plug row for this model year: replace every 120,000 km (75,000 miles), with no separate turbocharged row and no month figure. The following model year splits the row by engine.
Rows That Carry No Interval
Rear differential oil and transfer oil are printed with no mark in any column and one footnote: if the component has been submerged in water, the oil should be replaced. The following model year removes both rows. The emergency flat tire repair kit is printed if installed rather than if equipped, and the coolant footnote reads “use of FL-22 is recommended when replacing engine coolant”.
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 schedule, grouped by the column Mazda marks each row at.
Sourced from the scheduled maintenance section of the 2020 Mazda3 Hatchback owner’s manual, document Mazda3_8HZ1-EA-19G_Edition3, and from no other model year’s manual. Mazda publishes one combined book covering both Mazda3 body styles for this model year. 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 Mazda3_8HZ1-EA-19G_Edition3_old 2020-1-15 — the one to check your vehicle against.
Which Schedule Applies to Your Mazda3 Hatchback
On this nameplate the severe schedule changes one row, not the whole car.
Mazda’s Own Condition List
Mazda prints, for the Mazda3 Hatchback: if you drive your vehicle under any of the following conditions, follow the severe driving scheduled maintenance and replace the engine oil and filter every 8,000 km (5,000 miles) or 6 months, whichever comes first; otherwise follow the normal driving scheduled maintenance intervals. The vehicle is idled for long periods or driven at low speeds, such as with police cars, taxis or a driver’s education school car; driving under dusty conditions; driving for long periods in cold temperatures or driving regularly for short distances only; driving under extremely high temperature conditions; and driving continuously in mountainous regions.
It Is One Row, Not the Whole Car
This is the important difference between this nameplate and several Mazdas of the same era. Mazda does not move this car onto a second full table. It changes the engine oil and filter and prints, for everything else, “follow maintenance interval listed in normal driving scheduled maintenance”. Writing it the other way would shorten twenty rows Mazda never shortens.
So the Other Rows Do Not Move
The air filter, the cabin air filter, the brake and chassis inspections and the tire rotation are the same on both schedules. If a shop tells you severe driving has moved all of them on a Mazda3 Hatchback of these model years, that is not what this car’s manual says.
Which One Applies to Yours
That is a question about how the car is driven, and on this nameplate it changes one row. Bring the car and its mileage and our service team will go through Mazda’s own condition list with you before anything is quoted.
Schedule 2 — Severe Driving
What Mazda’s severe-driving schedule actually changes on this model year.
Engine Oil and Filter — Every 5,000 Miles or 6 Months
Mazda prints: replace the engine oil and filter every 8,000 km (5,000 miles) or 6 months, whichever comes first. That is the whole of what the severe schedule changes, and the row sits on its own eight-column grid running from 5,000 miles and 6 months up to 40,000 miles and 48 months.
Everything Else Follows the Normal Intervals
Mazda prints it in as many words: follow the maintenance interval listed in the normal driving scheduled maintenance. The air filter stays at 30,000 miles, the cabin air filter at 30,000 miles or 24 months, the chassis rows at 20,000 miles and the disc brakes at 10,000 miles, whichever schedule the car is on.
The Conditions Mazda Names
The vehicle is idled for long periods or driven at low speeds, such as with police cars, taxis or a driver’s education school car; driving under dusty conditions; driving for long periods in cold temperatures or driving regularly for short distances only; driving under extremely high temperature conditions; and driving continuously in mountainous regions.
What That Means Here
A Mazda3 Hatchback driven in Mobile heat may well meet Mazda’s extremely-high-temperature condition, and if it does, the answer is a 5,000-mile oil and filter and nothing else on the schedule moving. Our service team will go through the list with you rather than assuming it.
2020 Mazda3 Hatchback Maintenance Schedule Near Mobile, AL
Dean McCrary Mazda works from these model years’ own factory maintenance schedule at our Mazda service center in Mobile.
Why This Model Year Has Its Own Page
Mazda rewrote the maintenance-due sentence on this model year — the wrench light becomes the trigger and 10,000 miles or 12 months becomes a ceiling it is guaranteed to precede — and this is the last model year whose table schedules a brake fluid replacement, every 20,000 miles on a car with an electrical booster. Neither is visible in the numbers alone. The current Mazda3 Hatchback is on a different table again and is covered on the Mazda3 Hatchback maintenance schedule page.
Normal and Severe
The normal schedule is the whole list, hung off a maximum of 10,000 miles or 12 months. The severe schedule is a short condition list and one row: engine oil and filter every 5,000 miles or 6 months. Everything else follows the normal intervals, which Mazda prints in as many words.
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 Mazda3 Hatchback Maintenance Schedule Questions
What is the maintenance schedule for a 2020 Mazda3 Hatchback?⌄
Mazda prints: every maintenance must be done when the display or wrench indication comes on, and the indication comes on before reaching the maximum interval of 16,000 km (10,000 miles) or 12 months. The columns are occasions rather than mileages, so the second falls at 20,000 miles or 24 months and so on to 80,000 miles or 96 months.
When is the brake fluid replaced on a 2020 Mazda3 Hatchback?⌄
Every 20,000 miles or 24 months on a car with an electrical booster. This is the last Mazda3 model year whose table schedules it — the following one removes the row entirely — so the figure belongs to this car and may not be carried forward.
Does Gulf Coast driving change the schedule on a 2020 Mazda3 Hatchback?⌄
Only one row, if Mazda’s conditions apply. Mazda does not move this car onto a second full table — it names a short condition list and replaces the engine oil and filter every 8,000 km (5,000 miles) or 6 months, and prints that everything else follows the normal intervals.
When are the spark plugs replaced on a 2020 Mazda3 Hatchback?⌄
Mazda prints one row for every engine on this model year: replace every 120,000 km (75,000 miles). It publishes a mileage and no month figure, so this page states the mileage and stops there.
How much is maintenance for a 2020 Mazda3 Hatchback 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 when you book.
