mazda 6 1.8 petrol 2008 oil requrement.

[shDK]

hi all.

anyone here knows what oil requirement mazda has for the 1.8 petrol engine in a mazda 6 2008?

i think to remember they have another system then API/ACEA.

thanks

søren

 

[Nickdfresh]

I believe the engine wasn't used here in North America, at least not after the Protege was gone. The 2.0L was the smallest engine of the 2008 vintage Mazdas here, and all called for 5W-20. The 1.8L engines would have called for 5W-30 in the U.S. and Canada IIRC. I would use a good synthetic 5W-30 and call it a day...

I would think you're fine with anything in that engine from 0W-20 to 5W-40 (some U.S. 2009 Mazda6's actually had a listing for that weight specifically in the manual, which is unusual here). But that would have been for the 3.7L V6 beastie they had...

 

[shDK]

I was thinkin of going that way

Now my next problem will be finding a full saps 5-30 oil. Here almost all 5-30 are low saps

 

[Nickdfresh]

I wouldn't worry about saps as long as I wasn't being one.

I think Ford of Europe (then Mazda's parent company more-or-less) seemed to like Castrol Edge 0W-30 in a lot of their cars. I think maybe that or Mobil 1 0W-30 or 0W-40 might do the job for you. Shell Helix also makes a great line-up...

 

[Quest]

IMHO unless you engine is burning oil (e.g. Wenkel engine ala: Renesis, or older RX7 types), otherwise, SAPs or low SAPs shouldn't be an issue.

Q.

 

[Garak]

With your gasoline having lower sulfur than ours (and possibly no ethanol), maybe a mid or low saps oil isn't quite the end of the world. I take it you don't have a manual.

 

[shDK]

No i don.t have manual.. unfortunatly.

But think i will wait buying the oil till i have the manual.

 

[Garak]

As an alternative, some of the oil company sites for your country might be able to provide assistance. They often have lubricant selectors. A manual would be nice, though!