just a short story you might like to hear. bout my 8 last july with what i was told had 54000 miles...come to find out it had been tamperd with and actualy has over 100000 miles and now i need a motor. thankfully it is illegal to tamper with that and that i get a free lawyer due to being in the military. so after i file and win this lawsuit ill be looking into buying a new rx8 off the lot

 

Hope everything works out for you

 

Unfortunately this used to happen in Norfolk all the time.

 

Who tampered with mileage? Dealer or person that had it before?

 

person that had it before me did. called mazda corporation and insurance and found out the date and compared it to title so it was the previous owner. and im from newport news right around the corner from norfolk

 

They probably swapped gauge clusters. Weird, and that was in 1996 when I was stationed there in the Navy. All of us young guys got a good talking to about buying cars from the small used car dealerships in Norfolk.

 

yea we all still get the same briefs but i bought it from an officer in the army personaly so this may end his career for odometer fraud.

 

this sorta thing happened with my and my first car... the guy I purchased my 2001 Audi TT from had stuck a wad of electrical tape behind the cluster to block the engine light so it wouldnt shine throught the cluster. drove it for a month with the engine light flashing!

 

I wouldn't do that. The S2s are a nightmare.

 

 

I can appreciate that you just went through hell doing an oil change, but that doesn't mean everyone will lol
OP, shitty that there are people out there that do this to hard working people. Hard to trust anyone these days...

 

I was looking at buying a truck one time. After closely looking at the interior I saw light flash off something that looked metalic. I reached inside a cubby to find a switch that was hooked upto the odometer. This truck was on a lot. But the previous owner had installed a cut off switch linked to the odometer and gauge cluster. They had no idea how many miles were on the vehicle, but it only read about 20,000. He had been turning off the speedo/odometer and not moving the mileage.

 

You need specislized equipment to do this...it's not as easy as it looks....definitely not as easy as unplugging it

Wasn't a "mistake" for sure

 

That's too bad. Hope it all works out for ya.

 

Wouldn't carfax prove some of these things? You didn't look at the carfax before purchasing?

 

Not if it has never been in for service.

Also I didn't think just swapping the clusters would change anything...esp with the digital read out ones. Didn't think the mileage was stored in the cluster?

 

That sucks. Hope everything works out.

 

I thought mileage was reported when the car changed hands and needed to be titled again, among other ways. I guess if it was a single owner that part would not matter, but most cars are generally not owned by one person for the 100k+ that this car has.

 

i talked to mazda corporate to find out why the warranty was brnaded and they gave me the date of when they found out it was tamperd with which was the very end of 2009 and i bought it at end of june so it happen 6 months before i boughtt it and i doubt he only owned it for 5 or less months. printed out the carfax too and it said nothing of it.

 

It doesn't save the amount miles are on the gauge cluster, it does on the car's computer.

 

well i guess ima start looking into 3 rotors and ls1's...

 

You know you want an LS1 powered RX8.
You know you want to the very first person to install the Hinson kit, take lots of pictures, and note every little snag you run into... ahem... for posterity.

I may be willing to read that thread. Maybe.

 

so ive called r l polk the warranty company for mazda and they told me the are trying to reverse the branded title so ill get a new motor under warranty....kinda wanted a better motor but i would avoid the hassle of court and what not.

 

^ sounds good. Are they going to refund you any on the purchase price of the car? I would think they would to avoid litigation.

 

Oh yeah? You sound so certain.

Because I have seen clusters with shown mileage so explain that. If they swapped ECU's it would have had to be reprogrammed by the dealer because the security system is integrated.