I introduce myself and provide fuztupnz with evidence of my RX-8 R3 ownership

I've been an RX-8 owner for about a year and a 3 months now; bought a brand new 2009 RX-8 R3 in July 2009. I've got about 12,500 miles on it now, and I mainly use it for weekend driving, and it is garaged anytime it's not being used. I had mentioned in the original thread I posted in that I had stumbled across this site while trying to figure out how common the sun visors breaking was. Needless to say it appears I am not alone. Anyways, hoping to pick up some info along the way and it appears I'm in good hands for that.

 

 

nice ride.

 

Looks good.

 

It does exist

Welcome again my friend.

1 <3 R3's

Tons of info here. Enjoy the site. The hottest girl part 2 thread is a great place to start, as well as the Hot wives/Girlfriends thread.

I guess there's car related info on here too that's pretty good

Happy revving!

 

Welcome, friend!

Good to have another R3 owner around.

I see that yours is a weekend car. Mine happens to be my DD, and I'm expecting to rack up 15k miles a year on my baby.

I haven't run into the sun visor issue yet, so I better leave it alone and not try to figure out what you're talking about lol.

Anyways, happy to have you on board.

 

Haha yeah, I was so pissed on Saturday when I put the visor down and heard that plastic 'snap' sound. It appears to be a rather shitty design judging by the amount of people that were experiencing it also. New ones that the dealer installed yesterday seem better than the original ones I had, so here's hoping.

Thanks for the warm greeting peoples.

 

Welcome to the addiction.

 

Sweet 8!

 

thats not a bad bmw behind you lol

 

Haha yeah, that's my buddy's 335i.

 

What! they never fixed the visors on the series 2?

 

Well, being in Florida and using the car as a daily driver, I use my visors every day to hold up the sunshade. My sunvisor broke on my 2005 within about 3-4 months of getting the car brand new.
Since it's been replaced, it's been fine for over 4 years now.
Just a datapoint for you.
If you ever got a look at the insides of it, you'd see it's a pretty crappy design.

 

I didn't get a chance to look at mine Mazurfer, but I did see the design from the DIY thread I found on here and yeah it looks pretty damn shitty. I can definitely tell a difference between the new ones and my originals. The originals will snap pretty severely when I would fold them up or down about half way during the move.

The ones have some resistance but not that violent snapping. I just assumed the snapping was just the norm, but I suspect they might have been crap from the beginning. Small world with you being in Indialantic, I grew up in Melbourne and my grandparents lived in Indialantic. Good times.

 

Small world indeed.

Was born in Melbourne, many, many moons ago but have always lived beachside


I was also in Tampa and lived on Fletcher Ave while going to school. Worked in Temple Terrace on Busch.