Engine oil OEM Mazda or RAVENOL

Could be weather related. I'm in Canada and we have weather from -35C to +35C, so Mazda recommends oil changes every 8000km instead of 12,000km.

I use original Mazda oil and Nipparts for the filters. I live in Europe and I buy these for 80€ / 85$.

For [Naturally-Aspirated Skyactiv engines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyActiv), it is highly recommended that you use Mazda's own(Idemitsu) high molly GF-5 0w-20. [Arguably it is one of the best oil for skyactiv engines]

Even Ravenol, which is pretty expensive since it is made in Germany from Group V base stock. Great stuff.

I used to have castrol but since i chiptuned my octavia i switched to ravenol and the oil temps went down a good bit and it doesnt use any oil but that could also be because the old oil was 0w20 and the new one is 5w40

Last month I replaced the valve stem seals and it helped massively with the smoke. It doesn't really smoke much anymore, there's definitely still small puffs when taking off quickly, but nothing that I can see in the mirror.

I go with 10w40 Ravenol TSi

After reading several posts I got the Mazda Molly and Personally really like it! With the Molly it seems to run much quieter not such a heavy tick and just overall feels better’

The oil i have run: VW brand, Castrol and Ravenol all 0w-20 that meets 508/509. Basically on cooler outside temperatures the oil does run slightly higher than on hotter days.

after 2000km of running on it, i see there is quite a drop (30% from the max point). i think that is very weird...