JeRKy 8 Owner

I think i am the first person to have had interior damage done to my Rx8. I was fighting with someone on the phone on the way back to my car home and I had to put something in the back seat. I hung up onthem and opened up my driver door and then the rear door so I could throw the stuff in the back easy. That was right after the conversation had just got very heated and I was so into it that I forgot to close the rear door first! I got into the driver seat and then slammed the driver side door really hard to close it since I was so angry. Bam! The plastic cover for the little light on the lower part of the driver side door fell right off and I couldnt put it back in! I think it is cracked and Im going to have to get a newone. I just ewanted to remind you guys as a warning to make sure the rear door is closed before you close the first one so you dont end up with a broken light cover. I dont know if I did more damage to the door than just that. I hope not.

mikeb

that sucks. everytime both my doors are open and I'm showing someone the car I make sure I close the doors

Wing

I've tried it, the door simply bounces back, but I suspect if you SLAM it, yes it will break something

seikx8

With all the force from the SLAM, I'm sure even the best built door won't last. Yep, just have to watch out and remember to close rear before front

AccessoryMan

The Mazda accessory rear door trim protector is supose to help protect the rear door incase you close the front one first. It should help protect the rear door trim. Did you damage to soft trim as well?

Shocka

u actually tried it.. wow ive been aching to find out what happened but just couldnt even try it..

iwhen i show people my car.. i let them know i have a baseball bat in the trunk.. SHOULD thye close the front door before the back.. that bat goes to their head...
ALL FRIENDS KNOW THE RULES NOW!

Squidward

LOL.. maybe I should do that too.

rotarymotory

Be careful at car washes. Most of the folks that wash cars have no idea what's going on with these doors. Everytime I go I fear seeing the guy close the front door and then non-chalantly try to close the rear onto it. I'm less worried about a scratch on the inside of the rear door than I am about a CRIMP in the trailing edge of the front door. Mazda needs to idiot-proof (+ carwash-proof and valet-parker-proof) these doors. This is an accident just waiting to happen.

RM

superocho

Why are you taking your brand new 8 to an (automatic car wash)!!!!!! if you don't have place and hose of your own, ok, go to a car wash but wash it yourself dude! Dont trust some random machine and guys with your 8 --- or you'll be sorry...

P00Man

"Why are you taking your brand new 8 to an (automatic car wash)!!!!!! if you don't have place and hose of your own, ok, go to a car wash but wash it yourself dude! Dont trust some random machine and guys with your 8 --- or you'll be sorry..." - super

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Pete

same

Wing

Exactly, after you see the front door "bounce" you would have to be rather DUMB to close the back door on it!

Emsdad

My mother-in-law didn't bother to wait for the rear door to be closed before she slammed the front door....it bounced all over the place and now I have to slam it just to get it to latch.


What are mothers-in-law good for?

missinmahseven

Trunk ballast for those slippery winter days.

:D :D

Toadman

ROFL! Or slip them under the rear wheels as a replacement for sand when snow-stuck.

bwayout

Ouch!

...and for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction ...



All of this is something to think about.

I wonder if the rear doors operate the same way on the Saturn Ion ... or Honda Element?

rotarymotory

Please note that I said "folks who wash cars" not "machines that wash cars". I live in a large American city. People here are actually quite capable of keeping nice cars sparkling clean. There are numerous hand car washes that take care of the best cars money can buy. At the one I attend, my 8 is almost always the cheapest vehicle in the place (and that includes the motorcycles). Do you suburbanites and country folk actually imagine that the guys with the Bentley Turbo Rs and Ferraris on Lake Shore Drive pull out the garden hose every Saturday? Or that they hover over the wash attendants as they suds up? Get real.

Regardless, the employees of hand car washes are generally unfamiliar with the 8. So are valet parking attendants. I think Mazda could have come up with something to prevent mishaps. A simple idea would be to allow the rear doors to be locked independently(I'll bet you see this by spring). Then unknowing people wouldn't open them and accidents wouldn't happen.

To be more direct, the 8 is priced and targeted as an everyday driver. It's a wonderful car but it is not a fragile piece of jewelry. Most of the car attests to that. Any engineering oversights that allow for damaging mishaps due to the breakthrough design ought to be addressed. I wish they had been addressed in development, but I'll gladly have the lock-out installed myself to prevent damage.

To that point: Dear Mazda, why the heck isn't there some better sort of oil reservoir or sump system to make real life in real cities easier. I park in a giant concrete high-rise and it's just a touch inconvenient to have to deal with an oil light that's HALF QUART sensitive. My old RX-7 Turbo wasn't so finicky -- what gives?

RM



By the way, I love my 8. And am keeping it.

QuantumTheory08

I went to the movies with my two daughters last week. When my yonger was getting in the car, my older 14 year old got in and closed the door on her head!!!!. The nine year old was crying and okay.

What happened was, sometimes when you get in and out of the car, your not even thinking about others in the back seat, so you just start to close the door.

I love the car and the doors; has slip of the mind happened to anyone else?