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One-Time-Use Parts And Fasteners: Mazda
I-CAR · November 11, 2022 · Mazda
Summary
This document outlines Mazda's requirements for identifying and replacing one-time-use parts and fasteners during repairs. It highlights Mazda's general policy to replace items like cotter pins, gaskets, locknuts, lock washers, oil seals, O-rings, and spring pins, as well as specific component cautions found within individual workshop manual procedures.
What to do on the job
Always replace cotter pins, gaskets, locknuts, lock washers, oil seals, O-rings, and spring pins with new parts upon removal, and check vehicle-specific workshop manual procedures for additional component-specific one-time-use cautions.
How to use it
Use this document to justify the replacement and billing of one-time-use fasteners, seals, and clips on estimates. Refer to Workshop Manual > General Information > Service Cautions > Reassembly for the general replacement mandate, and check specific repair procedures (such as liftgate removal) for localized one-time-use warnings to defend these required parts to insurers.
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