After reading many of the posts on here I became aware of the flooding problem of the 8. I purchased a new 05 6 speed less than a week ago. I have been taking the necessary precautions...warm up, rev before shutoff etc. It has been quite cold up here near chicago, in the single digits. By accident I have stalled the engine twice within a minute after starting it. The car started right back up after only one crank of the starter. My car has a build date of september of 05....so only 3 months ago. I'm not sure how much of a factor this is, but I wanted to post this so to ease some worried minds.

 

I have a Sept 03 build date, it has never flooded, before or after computer chip reflashes.

 

I bought in June '04. No issues here. Always warm up before shutting down.

 

Owner since Aug 2003. No flooding here.

 

2004 never flooded here

 

04, no flooding. I have a few times accidentally shut it down cold too.

 

It's good to know flooding is not a definite possibility on all the rx8s...

 

Me too! July2003, 30,000 miles.

Never, not once, ever.

S

 

So you have had your car for less than a week and not flooded it, and felt this situation merited creating a thread and telling everyone?

 

Actually....yes, I did feel it needed the creation of a new thread. When I first came on this site I saw too many threads about engines flooding. Since the car was put in a situation where it should have flooded based on the info that I have seen. I guess that made me glad and it never hurts to be optimistic.

 

We need more threads like these. '03 build date, no flooding.

 

03 build date too. Flooded once after 2 years. It was very cold out and battery was weak and found to be defective. No problems since. I start and stop the car all the time cold. Only live 2 miles from work so the car never warms up during winter in Wisconsin.

 

'04 build date here. 24k miles and no flooding yet. Once I had even shut off the engine after moving it from my driveway to the street. Engine was definately very cold still. It started right up the next time.

-W

 

If you warm the car up every time, and turn off the engine while it is rev'ed to 3k, you will probably never flood. I haven't ever, got mine in Aug. 04.

 

No floods. June '03 build date. 20k miles.

 

Just details, but isn't the procedure to turn off the engine just as the rpms return to idle? I may be wrong...

 

the floods seem to be more likely when the cold shut off is followed by a lengthy setting period. Plenty of newbies report stalls as they learn mt and rarely have a problem when restarting immediately.

 

Although I am constantly worried about it, no flooding here, either.

Knock on carbon fiber.

 

Bought mine 11/2004...no floods..no problems...good times

 

Here is a caution that I just learned today... When your car is in a shop (ie bodyshop), tell them about the warming up the engine to avoid flooding... The bodyshop I was at just flooded my car, after myself not having one single flood for over a year. It made me so angry and pissed.

 

from a previous discussion, the impression is that the real flooding issue happens if you don't start the car for a while (e.g. someone moved it 20 feet, ran it for a minute, shut off cold and went to bed... car is dead in the morning). it seems that stalls followed by immediate restarts are OK, because fuel didn't have as much of a chance to accumulate and inside of your engine is at least a little bit warm from just being run (or something like that)

 

I've had mine sine July 2004. No floods.

 

I flooded my basement last year... does that count?

 

No floods jet. i think a poll would be really helpful to count how many people have flood their 8's. moderators?

 

There have been many polls already, just like the many threads about flooding or not flooding.