I ordered it on the web on Saturday-evening, and found it on my doorstep on Tuesday-morning, so great service! I paid 25 € for the tech wax (don't know what I paid for the spray wax) and paid 10 € for shipment. You can get Zaino on the web too, but it is twice the price and 25 € for shipment. To order, surf to the Meguiars site and then you can select the continent. It is great stuff, uncomparable to any products available over here.

 

GirlyRX8,


Thanks for your info, if I have some names of the MX5-club I also will let you know.
Nice tip on Meguiars NXT products. That will be work for the "grote vakantie"

regards,
Patrick

 

Hi all,

I know we all are reasonably, responsebly drivers, not too young and with some driving experience.
Look what can happen with a very powerfull car as our 8, in the hands of a young unexperienced driver.
https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...5&pagenumber=1

I've been to an extended training course last Thuesday, just to learn to deal with these kind of situations because I've read all about the 8 wagging it's tail. Didn't practice it in my 8, it's still so new so I hired a car, but now I wish I had. Time to pull some strings with Mazda NL for some kind of "Prodrive day".

See you, drive save,
Caecil

 

Hi Caecil,

I saw the pics of the car. That must have been some smack! The 8 is not an easy car to drive. I am very cautious with it, because I already felt that it can do some strange things. Last Sunday we went out with the 8 and my husband did some 'test-driving' with it. When we came to our destination, I felt like I had been to an amusementpark and took the worst ride of all, my stomach was turning. He is a good driver, but like most men, a lesser driver than he regards himself. I have my license for 13 years now and never even had a scratch on my car, so I'm going to keep my strategie. First: get used to a car, learn how it reacts in sertain situations, then you can play around. I would like to do that training course too, but with 8 specialists, because it is not an ordinairy car. I am still halfway my break-in period, so I can't pull it over 4000 rnds/min, but even under these conditions, I have problems to keep myself from speeding.

 

Yes, I've had the same strategie. After nearly 6000km I'm still learning, but keeping it within speed limits was hard from the start. And I'm affraid it always will be.:D

 

6000 km in only one month .....
You should have bought a Wankel Diesel.....

We did almost 7000 km in almost 6 months.

Are there more of you with such a record?

See you tomorrow!

ps
Mazda NL won't be present tomorrow. I received a short reply from one of there marketing people that nobody was available this saterday.

Eric

 

Hi,

Nearly 12000 km from the 10th of december until now.
Just not such a record but good driving.

regards and till tomorrow

Patrick

 

I think Hilbert drove more if I remember correctly, but we´ll find out tomorrow!

See you in Eindhoven.

Regards,
Caecil

 

Hi fellow RX8 Drivers. I will be visiting The Netherlands (Roden) on business the week of June 21st and I will like to have directions to a dealer or store that sell parts and accessories for our beloved cars. My goal is to compare availability and cost. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

EAQR

 

Hi EAQR,


Welcome to Holland,

But availability is low and costs are high!!!!
Even with the costs of shipping it´s much cheaper to order some accessories in the states. If you want, we could send you a list with available goodies and prices to compare.

I think the nearest Mazda dealer to Roden is in Groningen. Just let us know if you need the adress.

 

Thanks Caecil...

Yes please send me both the list with available goodies and prices, and the address of the dealer at Groningen. My plan is to stay in Groningen, any hotel recommendations?

My email is eaqr@bellsouth.net

Thanks,

EAQR

 

I'll send you the adresses from the dealer in Groningen and some other nearby dealers a.s.a.p. But I don't know any hotels over there, sorry.

 

Hi all,

Yesterday Patrick, Hilbert, Eric and I met with our partners in Eindhoven. The dealer was so kind to supply coffee and pastry.
Guess what we talked about?

 

b.t.w. the left B.Black is from the dealer.

Renesis, we missed you! See you next time?

 

Dear All,

It sure was a very pleasent and interesting meeting. The beginning, we hope, of something bigger.

We met a very kind and willing dealer who's hospitality was fantastic. We could stay as long as we wanted.
Allthough the dealer was engaged (he had a tennis tournement) he quickly visited us in between.

Many thanks to Garage Muzenberg and to all the participants yesterday.

See you all next time!

Corrie & Eric

 

Dear all,

To the Dutch-speaking subscribers of this thread, Eric, Barf and I would like to announce that we have created a forum in the Dutch language.
It certainly is not our intention to draw everyone away from this thread or this forum, because this is the place where we all have learned so much about our 8's and everyone is supportive and compassionat in good and bad times.

But we noticed that a lot of Dutchspeaking people can read English, but can't or won't write it. Since it is so much easyer to communicate in once own language, we thought we should give this forum in Dutch a try.
Barf, the "computernerd" who made this all possible, and I have registered the name of this forum for one year. If it is succesfull, we will continue this of course. It is our goal to find and communicate to many new Belgium and Dutch RX-8 owners or RX-8 interested people.

Well, this is the kick-off. The three of us posted some pictures, links and stories on the new forum, but it needs a lot more!

On behalf of Eric and Barf (Leo), I would like to invite you to www.rx8nl.com
We hope to see you soon!

Caecil


To IKN, Baphi and TheChimiste,
I've send you a Private Message.

 

Cool site
There is potential in there

 

Caecil,

Thanks for the PM. I will register too. Will it give me access to the tech stuff or do I need to PM you for that?

IKN

 

IKN,

Please PM me.

Caecil

 

Done,

IKN

 

Hi All,

Apparently the meeting in Eindhoven was great too bad for me that I was not able to come furthermore I studied some months in Eindhoven years ago, it was a nice opportunity to see how the city changed.

This new site is looking nice, I have definitly to improve my dutch knowledge.

Finally do you have the car technical stuff ?

Cheers
RenesisMsa

 

Hi Renesis,

I've send you a P.M. too. We hope to welcome you very soon again.

Regards,
Caecil

 

It has arrived at the dealer





I'll take her in about 2 weeks, but in between I'll go see her everyday :p
Before she leaves the shop, I'll give her it's first Crystal Guard gloss , and place some invisible (and maybe not so) mods :D

 

It looks great Tertou, but why wait two weeks? Is it because of the mods?

 

Maybe I won't wait that long, but papers need to be filled, taxes (and car ) need to be paid, the mods put on...
But I have also some work in the house, and I prefer having it be done before going flying on the roads :D

Gosh, I like it's colour :p