dekka

RIght guys im toatally at the end of my wits with my RX8 last saturday night i took it out for a good couple of hours drive and parked it up outside my house shut it down poperly held it at 5000 RPM 10-12secs to push out fuel oil as ive always done. Went to start it on Tuesday morning absolutely nothing !! plenty of power in battery so wasnt battery rang out green flag and mechanic said it was flooded so pulled out Fuel Pump relay from fuse panel tried turning it over a few times then nothing !! in the end of trying said would need to be towed to a garage as access to spark plugs was difficult and had to be put on lift or ramp from below ! So the car was towed to garage on Tuesday to be de flooded Ive had a call from garage on Tuesday evening saying spark plugs are shot so have to order new plugs at 26 quid each x 4 ?? and also an oil and oil filter change its now Friday and ive heard nothing !!! can anyone give me some advice or help am i having my eyes pulled out here ???? is it really a hard fix to deflood an RX8 is there anyone out there who actually is an expert on these cars ??

redline86

iTrader: (7)

I don't see how you flooded it after driving for a few hours, the flooding problem should only happen on a cold engine shut down to my knowledge. Like starting the car, moving it, then shutting it down 30 seconds later. Why do you rev your engine to 5k for 10 seconds for shut down if the engine is warm? Deflood is rather easy to do, my bet is that they had you towe your car in only to find out it isn't flooded and they have no idea what to do with it. Or maybe they are waiting on plugs to arrive?

dekka

thanks for the reply just dont understand the plugs were only changed like 8x month ago and why the oil and oil filter change ?? do u think u could possibly tow and bump it off ??

redline86

iTrader: (7)

WTF? I missed this the first time I read your post. You DO NOT have to put the car on a lift at all to access the plugs. They are actually rather easy to get to all you have to do is remove the front driver wheel, remove the hanging splash guard or whatever it is called, and the plugs are right there.

Well if your engine was truly flooded badly the gas will foul up the plugs so it is a possibility that they should be replaced. No idea why the oil change and filter, did you not ask them to do that? They are probably milking you for what they can. I'm sure some other guys on here will chime in; I am educated but by no means an expert but it would be helpfull if we had more information to go on. There are many things that will prevent the engine from starting besides flooding.
If I where in your shoes I'd be calling them up wanting details of everything they are or are not doing. If they haven't already gotten rid of them I'd ask for the old spark plugs back to see how bad they really are.

dekka

Car returned this evening finally new plugs fitted old ones where in a bad way oil changed and new oil filter fitted cost £252.00 including VAT and Labour all running smoothly have a feeling may have paid for more than necessary but at least its sorted