Picked it up last wendsday, fell in love with the car as soon as I drove it I have a 93 Miata and had a 2000 bmw 328i as a daily. When I test drove the rx8 if felt like a perfect hybrid of the last two cars I drive/drove in terms of handling and interior luxury. The rx8 I picked up was a one owner car with 88k original miles it has two tone brown and black leather interior w/the pop up nav and DVD player. Is there anything I need to know to look out for in terms of preventive Maintanance or Maintanance in general? And what things are faulty and break easily that I should upgrade first?

 

Congrats on acquiring your 8 :-) and Welcome to the club..

I hope you got the compression test done
Inspect the ignition components to ensure they are in good order
Get the maintenance history from Mazda to get a better picture of what's been done to the car

Tell us more about your car, share some pics..

Rx8 indeed is a great car, and looks and drives awesome.


**Read through this thread, it's packed with tons of great info
https://www.rx8club.com/new-member-f...t-here-202454/


All the best..

 

 

It's got the chocolate and black two tone interior





Body is super straight, I can tell the previous owner garaged it from the time it was new














Took it out to a local track to get a better feel for the car, had a lot of people ask how I found a rx8 in such good condition and I shared some laughs with them because I don't have plates yet just the temp dealership paper one in the back window. It was all in all a awesome experience and I'll definitely do it again!

 

Wow looks clean as hell... It's posts and pics like these that sadden me since I might have to let mine go pretty soon...

 

Don't sell the 8! I know I could never sell mine now that I've owned it for a few weeks the car is in a class of its own

 

Great pickup man!! Looks super clean. (By the way, take off those license plate frames! Haha). Where in WA are you located?? I'm over in Kirkland.. Good to see another 8 in WA!

 

I will when i get my plates lol and I'm up in mount Vernon! I head south quite a bit though for the Mazda militia meets i know two other guys that own 8's (4 between the two of them to be exact &#128514 that live in the Kent area. Are you going to make it to the xxx root beer meet on Sunday in issaquah?

 

I will when i get my plates lol and I'm up in mount Vernon! I head south quite a bit though for the Mazda militia meets