Hi fellow Mazda 3 enthusiasts,

I wanna share my experience with Canadian Tire today ...

I went for an oil change and chose the 5W20 Formula 1 synthetic (I am driving 2006 M3 2.0 l). I had the car back and after a couple of hundred meters I saw that the sticker on the windshield reads 10W30. I went back to ask them what oil they have put. The service manager says, they have put 5W20 just he guy have entered the wrong grade and gave me another sticker which had wrong KMs this time. So far not such a big deal, but when I drove the car for 20-30 km today I noticed the engine was sluggish. When I came back tonight and looked under it, I saw that oil is leaking from the area around the oil filter (about a drop of oil every couple of minutes). I may be wrong, but I think they may have not tighten something good enough. The other possible reason would be that the oil is synthetic and as we know Mazda does not recommend using synthetic oil. The car is at 125K KM and this was the first time I used synthetic so there is a chance that a gasket might have leaked.

I will be back tomorrow and share what would be the rest of the story ... any piece of advice or suggestion what might have gone wrong is much apprecited

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