tootsie
05-18-2006, 10:25 PM
Before I e-mail Mazda or call the dealership, I thought I would ask y'all. Please be gentle. I'm a woman raised in an all Chevy family. They're all mechanics but know very little about the RX-8. My husband has no clue. I've been the nerd and read the manual from cover to cover.
I love my car, but like y'all, I've had my problems. When I first bought the car it was out of alignment. It wasn't fixed until my first rotation. The tires have roared ever since...can't wait to get new tires!!
I have an automatic. To my questions, when I'm slowing and touch the brakes around 35 or 40 mph the gear handle shakes up and down. Also, the car seems to not stop smoothly all the time. But these 2 items aren't dependent on each other. Sometimes the handle shakes as the car slows smoothly down. I did grow up in a car family, so I was taught not to ride my breaks and to use my gas as a way to slow down. That's one question...why is it shaking?
Another question, since day one, say if I forgot and needed over in the other lane at the red light and needed to beat the other car off the line, I will punch it. Well, as someone else has said on a thread, it just feels like 1000 pounds is in my trunk. It eventually takes off, but it sure bogs down on the punch. And somethimes after it gets it little spurt, it just loses it. Then other times, I just barely tap the gas, and it takes off. I feel like I'm having to learn to drive this car. It shouldn't be so hard to punch it to fall out and pass someone.
Not a question, but I'm with everyone on the door rattle!! ugh!
I just love my car, but it's kinda embarrassing if someone is riding with you and your car won't get up and go sometimes and then other times it's like she has a mind of her own...she just takes off.
Appreciate the help.
I love my car, but like y'all, I've had my problems. When I first bought the car it was out of alignment. It wasn't fixed until my first rotation. The tires have roared ever since...can't wait to get new tires!!
I have an automatic. To my questions, when I'm slowing and touch the brakes around 35 or 40 mph the gear handle shakes up and down. Also, the car seems to not stop smoothly all the time. But these 2 items aren't dependent on each other. Sometimes the handle shakes as the car slows smoothly down. I did grow up in a car family, so I was taught not to ride my breaks and to use my gas as a way to slow down. That's one question...why is it shaking?
Another question, since day one, say if I forgot and needed over in the other lane at the red light and needed to beat the other car off the line, I will punch it. Well, as someone else has said on a thread, it just feels like 1000 pounds is in my trunk. It eventually takes off, but it sure bogs down on the punch. And somethimes after it gets it little spurt, it just loses it. Then other times, I just barely tap the gas, and it takes off. I feel like I'm having to learn to drive this car. It shouldn't be so hard to punch it to fall out and pass someone.
Not a question, but I'm with everyone on the door rattle!! ugh!
I just love my car, but it's kinda embarrassing if someone is riding with you and your car won't get up and go sometimes and then other times it's like she has a mind of her own...she just takes off.
Appreciate the help.