Okay... help me br/o/thers.
Talk me out of getting a 2004 Mazda RX-8, Grand Touring, every option available, low miles (45k), for a great price ($5999)
Oh no... I want an RX-8
Xavier Reyes
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Noah Carter
You have a dyno sheet for your ms3 yet?
Matthew Scott
Apex seals are probably shattered
Sebastian Barnes
I own a FB and the car is a huge fuckin pain in the ass to work on, you have to follow a strict shitty schedule and even if you do it still breaks. It gets pathetic gas mileage. It burns oil. You can't bolt the engine to a stand without an adapter or rigging something up. The community is full of liars, retards and people who just can't accept their buyer's remorse and stop at nothing to defend it. Parts are expensive. You'll constantly have a nagging feeling that the car will break (because it will).
tl:dr the rotary meme is shit just test drive it to get your rotary kick then move on to something else, don't make the same mistake as me
Sebastian Price
"I own an old car and im not man enough to keep it running"
Daniel Jenkins
Would like to add that you can't even stop at the store to grab something really quick cause it'll probably flood. So you have to do a dumbass unflodding procedure, or leave the car running. Also contrary to what the rotard community and anyone who talks about rotary engines will lead you to believe, you cannot just rebuild an engine. When the apex seals go, they ruin the housing as well almost every single time, and if it overheated, the irons can be warped too, or even gouged out by the seals, the rotors get ruined too. there is a chance that it'll be able to be rebuilt, but 9/10 you'll have to get a new housing and new rotors, so you can't just buy that rebuild kit and do it.
When the engine went in my FB, the rear housing, rear and center iron and rotor were all unusable, thats over half the engine.
Wyatt Cox
And here's what I'm talking about with the community. You can't be serious can you? I guess you're more of a man if you get to constantly have your car sit on the back of a tow truck bed. Everyone knows old cars require effort to keep running, and you get rewarded for your effort, but the rotary engine doesn't reward you. It's a cuck car, it blows it's load too early, you're never satisfied.
James Stewart
>Would like to add that you can't even stop at the store to grab something really quick cause it'll probably flood.
Is it really that bad though? Over here the average RX8 driver is 50+ years old. I'm pretty sure they use it as a grocery getter and I'm positive they never redline it. Though that might be why there's so many for sale for cheap.
Xavier Thomas
>over half the engine
>has 3 moving parts
Carson Ross
The owners being 50+ years old is actually a bad thing. Chances are they don't follow the very strict maintenance schedule, including redlining the car. You're supposed to redline the car once a day and shift high, because the engine builds up too much carbon.