haha, sorry for disappointing you but a person that bs's can only bs for so long.. well, lucky socal people get all the beautiful people, don't neglect the norcal folks! haha, well, just look in the west section of this forum to find out more about what goes on around your area! and good luck with your 8, hope everything turns out great!

 

really,

i will send you the tsbs and recalls.. if you have not had the last one done. you need to... if you have and still are having the problem you talk about. needs to be done again.

cover your ***. do you know what flash and recall you are on?


beers

 

The troll got a new Title

"Banned"

cheers

 

They're guttin' my baby!

I got the call from service that they think they've identified the problem - some apex or something that starts with an "a' is loose on the motor and so they are going to replace the WHOLE motor. Yikes. I was a little nervous to hear that but the service guy said its actually better for me, especially since my car is about 2k away from warranty (I'm at almost 48k)

He said he checked out the coils, cat, fuel system, etc and they all look fine. So they are assuming its this motor problem.

I'll have my baby back in a week/week and a half. In the meantime, I've got a Mazda 3 with no power anything (I have to manually roll down windows LOL). Hey, it beats walking.

 

Powertrain warranty for 04-05 has been extended to 60 K miles, 5 years.

your dealership is doing *something*, So you should be good

 

Really? How come I'm the last one to know these things?

Yes, I'm glad they're doing *something*, even if it sounds a little drastic.

 

you will be the better for it in a lot of ways.. the recall notice went out in late sept. dont know why you did not get it..

http://www.finishlineperformance.com...res_recall.pdf

at the end of the doc. it tells about the extended warranty.

btw, the thread hijacker, bye bye.

beers

 

I just had my 04 Rx8 towed in to the dealer this morning. Same problem. Once my car is hot, it loses its power. I had the engine fail once and couldn't get it started for about 10 minutes. This was about a month ago. This weekend, whatever was on the verge of breaking; broke. It wouldn't start at all. I am glad to hear the warranty was extended. I'll repost when I hear from the dealer.

Caligirl, do you have an update on your 8?

 

I looked at the CURRENT version of the PDF you link to and it says nothing about any powertrain warranty extension.

I am pretty sure it was in some letter I got from Mazda or something I had seen before, but what is currently up at finishline does not mention it.

Dennis

 

yep,

i recall that now. i will see if i can find it for you..

beers

 

here you go.

http://www.finishlineperformance.com.../pdf/ad-18.pdf

beers

 

Nope, KMB, she's still with the dealer. I'm going to call them tomorrow and check up on the progress.

swoope I never got that notice. Maybe mine isn't covered by it. Thanks for sending it along, though.

 

I would ask the dealer or maybe call MazdaUSA. The letter is sort of ambiguous:

Mazda Motor Corporation is conducting a Special Service Program (SSP) which extends the warranty coverage on Powertrain Components on all 2004, 2005 and 2006 model year RX-8 vehicles. The warranty coverage for the Powertrain Components will be extended to 5 years (60 months) from the original warranty start date, with a 60,000 mileage limitation. If you are a recipient of this notice, your vehicle is included in this program.

It says "all 2004,2005,and 2006" RX-8s, but also says "If you are a recipient of this notice". All would mean all, and not just those that did get the notice. Right?

Dennis

 

Sorry, I haven't saw this thread, I have the same problem with my previous engine, went to the dealer, it turned out the the black wire(in my case, both of them) which connects to the battery had several severed point and the ecu wasn't getting that much power, so they replaced it and it ran fine for a while

heres the catch, that engine, once it ran fine, 3 days later, the second rotary misfired and was broken, mazda replaced my engine