Hey everyone!!

I just found this forum today and I'm very excited. Im a 26 year old girl from Surrey, B.C. and I just bought a Silver 2005 Brand new RX8!!! I drove a 92 Acura Integra previously and just thought it was time for a new car!! I love the RX8 because its sooo different!!! I don't see many of them out there.

A little about me... I graduated from SFU in 2001. I completed a BA in Psychology. I am currently a Human Resources Generalist at a HR Firm. If you want to know more about me or the new car add me to msn or email me at trendyangel@msn.com

Can anyone give me tips as I am a brand new RX8 owner!! Any would be appreciated!!

I pick up my RX8 tommorow morning I am looking forward to attending some meets and getting to know some of you.

Love
Angel

 

Welcome welcome Angel. You're going to love the car! What exactly did you get (GS/GT? Nav? etc).

Make sure you break in the car properly too! There are a couple of different thoughts on this .... do a search and you'll find tons on the break in. Oh, stock up on oil because the rotary engine loves to drink that stuff!

Other than that ... ZOOM!

ps. Rotten will likely tell you about the curse of the silver and claim that red is the fastest (when we all know blue is).

 

You bought the best color...even with the curse

I've had mine for 2 yrs now....silver with bits

Where did you buy it?? Freeway, Wolfes or the one at the SS auto mall??

 

I bought it from Freeway Mazda. I did check out the titanium one at Wolfe but it was a 2004 and had 30,000 km on it, so i opted for the brand new one

But I must know what is this curse you speak of

 

ooh nevermind I just did a search for silver cursed Mazdas... I gotcha!

I prefer not to join that club

I think the colors hot so I dont care!!

 

Do a search ( couldn't resist..you being a virgin and all )

There is a long standing joke on here that silver 8's get into more accidents..this came about early on cause the crashes all seemed to be silver

I think there is something too it though...I've almost been hit twice. The light silver gray color is hard to see in low light....so be careful

As far as tips...take it cool on the motor for about 600KM...vary the rpm a lot and don't rev the s**t out of it till then. After that rev it lot's...it will run better. The worse thing to do is drive it at low rpm's all the time.

Check the oil lots...every 2nd fill up at least. The motor injects oil into the motor....so it will use about 1 litre beetween oil changes.

The biggest thing is don't start it...and shut it off before it warms up.....if you do it could flood the next time you try to start it....let it warm up before you shut it off.

Check out some of the sticky threads at the top of the forums...you will get good info there

Good luck and have fun with the new toy

 

Welcome to the club! Great colour choice.
Another piece of advice; buy winter tires if you have any snow or temperatures below 5 C. TireTrends is a good place to get them.
Also make sure to get clear corners 'cus the stock markers look like crap on the Silvers!

 

I would only be speaking the truth

 

coool i'm from bc too.. lets go rev it lol...

 

Welcome to the club =) Good choice on the 8! U'll love it... specially when u pass the break in period and start using the high REVS !! I'm from Vancouver, but remember to wave or honk when u see me !!

 

Hell, wave and honk at any RX-8 - we seem to need/crave the attention.

Congratulations on the purchase, and have fun.

 

Welcome, congrats on the purchase from the "down under" crew.

 

Stock up on 5W-30. The 8 will drink lots of it if you enjoy 9200rpm on a regular basis. Welcome to the boards.

 

Probably better with the recomended 5-20

 

I would agree with you. I am glad though that even the LOSER BLUES are getting the idea behind the superiority of VR's

Congrats with your purchase angel

 

^^^ See what I'm saying Starlight Angel? These poor VR guys are so deluded that they're in a dream world (they believe the 8 can fly and make ice cream, as well). Besides why is it called WINNING blue rather than Winning red??

 

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome!!

I was extremely lucky today as we got some beautiful sunshine. I took it for a drive down to White Rock and it was absolutely heavenly!!!!

I saw another Silver RX8 in Surrey today I wonder who it was

 

Because they knew at Mazda that they had to pump up the low self-esteem that all you Blue car owners have....The movie "the 40 year old virgin" comes to mind!!

You Blue owners have such a fragile ego and very indecisive.

"I want to show off...no wait...I don't want to show off...yes, yes I do...ah crap, I'll just go park my car and play game cube".


Us Velocity Red owners have "mocheeesmo".....and we out it on display for everybody to admire and aspire to.

 

Welcome, see you on the road!

 

Don't be a hater.....that red looks like a 10yr olds play nail polish. SS is the sexy!

 

It sounds like this group needs a little "diversity" training. Enjoy and respect each other's differences. We wouldn't want all the 8's on the road to be identical, now would we?

 

...
yes we would...all Velocity Red!!!

...no whinner blue

 

um, my VR DOES do the above!!

and welcome starlight. dont let the leg humpers get you down .. most of em are good guys

 

She seems to be too busy driving to pay attention to the " leg humpers" anyway

So far they are being very subtle......not crying for photos

 

Red, you've taken too much medication again!!!