marky77

i used road side assitance the other day cause my oil light came on! THEY told me that they couldnt send a car to check the oil pressure so its best if they send a tow truck and take it to my local service centre!! IT seemed a little extreme! BUT i thought dam its a new car and theres an oil leak! AND i didnt want any warranty issues down the track! SO they took the car to my dealer and latter that day the dealer called me and said that it was low on oil and they apparently put about 2 litres in! AND there isnt an oil leak! AND that rotaries drink allot of oil and i should check it every couple of thousand k's! DO you think this sounds right!!
anyway the moral of the story is that it cost me $50 bucks for 5 litres of oil and they picked up my car! and washed it!! THIS normally costs me $26? so i thought it was a bargain!??

ZoomZoomH

iTrader: (1)

are you kidding me, you never checked your oil level???

expo1

You should delete / close your own thread before Mugatu logs on and save yourself the embarrassment.

Getting your car towed for low oil

Gomez

Oh dear. In your owners manual the first thing they tell you in the "Owner Maintenance" section on page 8-15 is that the Renesis requires regular checking of the oil. Once a month should be enough in most cases.

Marky...you have some light reading ahead of you :p .

Cheers,
Gomez.

Gomez

This is actually sound advice! However it would be great if you'd weather the storm and leave this thread up as a pointer to other new owners. This is really an indictment on the poor performance of the sales staff. They should have pointed this requirement out to you.

khtm

Please do the rotary world a favour and sell your car to someone who isn't a moron.

Gomez

Marky.....I did warn you about the storm, mate.....

Nemesis8

iTrader: (3)

Stand up and make your right hand into a fist and hit yourself quickly. Now sit down and read about your car's engine.

NicoRx8

Come on my friend!!!!!!!

page 5-31 and 8-15 of the owners manual clearly states recommending checking the oil at every 2ND Fuel fill-up!!!!!!!!!

How many km have you done without checking the oil level!!!
The dealer you bought it off should also be shot for not explaining this IMPORTANT point.

DO you know your car has a ROTARY engine in it???
Thank god you found this website - it will provide you the education you need to treat your baby right.

sco

marky77... $50 is about the going price for the oil for the RX-8... 5w-30 is a reasonably obscure blend so you're not going to get pricing like you see for more popular oil.

timbo

oh dear :o well, it's good to know the warning light works for its intended purpose

wedge357

ARE YOU FOR REAL???

Seriously, you buy a $30k+ car and you don't read your fracking manual???

Wear the Official RX-8 Dunce Cap of the week for you, dude...

wedge357

They should charge you an extra $69 for being an upside down cookie...

spaldo

Give the guy a bit of a break. Since he's only had the car since April, I'm surprised he's used as much as 2litres since his 1000km service, which makes me wonder whether the dealer added enough oil then. I have hardly had to add any oil to mine, even though I check the level regularly.
Come to think of it, I don't think that my dealer really stressed the importance of checking the oil, but i guess most of the population wouldn't check the oil in their cars from one service to the next.

wedge357

You are hereby sentenced to reading all the threads in the RX-8 website.

Just giving you a hard time... Now keep up with the rotary updates by reading all the threads.

Revolver

Oh boy! :p :D

Well done Marky for having the courage to own up.

Let's look on the bright side. As Timbo says, the oil light works. And it sounds like Roadside Assistance errs on the side of caution. I reckon most other services would have told him to buy the first litre of oil he could find, tip it in and then drive it to his dealer.

As to checking the oil - my salesman didn't breathe a word about it and I know plenty of people who don't read the manual when they buy cars far more expensive than the 8. They just get in and drive 'em.

My old man engrained into me the habit of checking oil, water and tyre pressure once a week (okay, sometimes it's once a fortnight) and of course getting onto this site reinforced that for this particular car.

However, in Marky's defence, he's probably a young dude who grew up with modern, reliable japanese cars that don't leak oil and can stand a lot of ignoring before they exhibit any kind of problem. Hell, I'm still getting used to the idea that you can wait 10k between every service.

He now knows better so give him a break.

auzoom

I want to know who the dealer is that DIDN'T tell you that 50 times before they let you off the lot!

Andrew

Revolver

Brookvale Mazda Andrew.

Funny really, 'cause the sales manager who I picked the car up from went to some pains to give me a run down on the DSC button and how the bose stereo worked, etc. And I otherwise have found them very good to deal with.

Perhaps he was just having a blonde day and forgot.

takahashi

Well... no one read my thread

Ten things that all new RX-8 owners should know from day 1 :rolleye:
https://www.rx8club.com/australia-new-zealand-forum-37/10-things-new-rx-8-owners-should-know-day-1-a-35405/

It is even sticky(ed) by Hymee

What is point number 2 in the thread.

Revolver

I read it Taka - very helpful it was too.

In fact, I think it was one of the first things I read as a newbie.

xxup

Hear hear...

It took over 3,000km for us to use 1 Litre of oil...

I can remember a certain manufacturer of non-rotary cars that used to tell its customers that it would not consider an oil consumption problem until it was using 1.5l per 1,000km AND the dealer had to add the oil and take the measurements...

Whenever you get a new car - regardless of it being a rotary - always check the oil level every couple of tanks of fuel..

Gomez

Marky read it too, Taka. He even posted about having read it :o .

Hymee

iTrader: (1)

Good on ya for owning up, marky. It is all an education.

Myself, I let the "add oil light" do it's job. When it tells me to add oil, I do. Now that might take some of the heat off you and I cop some flack instead.

Cheers,
Hymee.

sco

Note to self... never loan my car to Hymee :p

The rumour goes... last time Hymee ran out of 710 he couldn't find any 710 stores nearby so had to do with a 711 instead

auzoom

Hey cant sCanalyser tell you when your oil is getting low and send all sorts of warnings and so on :-D Joking!

Andrew