Oil filter Wix or OEM Mazda

I use Mobil 1 with either a Wix or Mobil 1 filter.

At the recommendation of several others, I put a Wix in mine when I bought my Fit last year.

Both Wix and Purolator are made by the same company, Mann & Hummel so the top of the line filters (Purolator Boss & Wix XP) are about identical. IDK about the 20k mile one, haven't touched it yet but it should be on par or better than the Boss.

You can't go wrong with either as they are some of my favorite filters on the market due to how clean the internal construction & how solid the material quality is. The highest end Frams are fine to run but still not as good as Wix or Purolator, and nothing below Frams highest line is worth running imo.

Wix everything. It's the only filter I use in mine and customer cars. I've probably used 3,000 + over the last 20 years

I've had no issue with the WIX filters for my last two oil changes

Mazda recommends their oem filters on skyactive motors. Its because they dont have the flaps that keeps oil pressurized. Any wisdom says you dont need it but go ahead and buy them online as I paid $5 per.

In terms of filter and oil, I have an NA and I personally like to buy the OE filters from Mazda and for oil I just use the oil recommended in the owners manual, id assume the ND uses different oil so I’d say just check that.

i keep using wix and haven’t had any issues

Delco and fram filters are no different. Wix is 100% way better and a lot less when you have a commercial account

The car takes a different oil filter (wix 57170). The filter housing has a center structure coming out of it that slides in the bottom of the filter (to keep it in place?) and the new filter doesnt have that. I sat there with a dremel for 2 hours and made the new filter fit. Success, but its still leaking the same amount of oil.