btw, great comment sushigirl. I posted it in this thread where it is more relevant.

 

thank you "8_wannabe"

i'm new to this whole thing -- i've never read or posted messages to any forum before (just joined today) and never had a car worth caring about either!

i'm thankful for everybody's participation. it helps people like me to become informed (and avoid looking like a typical, ignorant girls who don't know anything about their cars)!!! knowledge IS power!

-BSG
:D :D

 

No prob. Every girl here is powerful; just ask Elara! Welcome to the forum and congrats on the new car.

 

You know, the lead tech made the comment that he couldn't start mine in the morning, when they were going to install the CD player. So, he said he'd check the plugs. THEN he said, "Well, I had these new high-temperature plugs in after having back-ordered them so I put them in for you."

My guess is that they cold-started the car to move it around the service area and then parked it, then shut it down. So it ended up flooded. Got new plugs though!

 

Definitely. He was just giving you a line about just putting in plugs for you as he was too embarassed to admit the truth.

 

hey! Im new to this forum just send in today, I notice that the gas mileage on my RX8 from 1 to 800 miles is 11 mpg city/hiway driving. I alway keep my rpm around 5500 to 6000 before I shift gears. I was shifting at 3000 to 4500 rpms. but no change in the 11 to 12.5 mpg. I love this car .maybe it's my driving any Ideas

 

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i'm thankful for everybody's participation. it helps people like me to become informed (and avoid looking like a typical, ignorant girls who don't know anything about their cars)!!! knowledge IS power!

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BSG -

I agree. Knowledge IS power! I can't get over how many times I've already repeated things learned in this forum when dealing with the RX-8 salespeople and mechanics.

I see you teach math and based on what you've stated in your other posts I really, really doubt the Mazda mechanics are thinking "ignorant girl" when YOU walk away.

My wife is the same way. Her father was a "BIG wheel" in the automotive industry. He didn't have any sons, so his four daughters learned to fix stuck chokes, replace water pumps and drive ANYTHING with an engine. As a teenager (before computers) she worked in the billing department of a large chevy dealership and knew hundreds of billing code numbers by heart. For our first ten years of marriage she would go to the service managers and dispute line by line almost every repair bill we ever received stating things like "I see by this code number you’re trying to charge us for an entire box of rags". I can remember at least two really big repair bills that she had cut almost in half by the time she was done with them. Man, talk about a perfect woman! :D :p

 

I unplugged my battery for 12hours to reset the ecu. After I did that I filled up my gas tank and with just a the first quarter of a tank I hit 76 miles so far I have 130 and have about half a inch till half tank mark. Of how it’s heading now I think I might be able to get high 200 maybe low 300s. I will tell u how much my gas tank last after I need to fill up. That would be funny if my gas issue was fixed by resetting the ecu.

 

I average 250-280 per tank. combo highway and city.

 

I have a pretty good CD skip problem as well. It is interesting to know that they will replace the player. I also think I have the hesitation problem, and I think I switched of the DSC and have not noticed the problem again, but to be honest I didn't relate the two n(hesitation and DSC). Will have to experiment some more, but it just snowed like hell here so driving will be curtailed for a while (don't want baby in the snow, no siree).

 

Since I bought the car I've averaged 190.79 miles per tank. The worst being 158.1 and best being 227.0

 

just joking damm that is really good my average is 220-245 the most.I only got 245 on all highway comming from Nj-fL

 

If you really want to see if it's improved, PLEASE calculate miles per gallon. Miles per tank is so inaccurate as to be almost useless - a "tank" is not a unit of measure by any means.

Regards,
Gordon

 

My car stays warm for hours after its driven for a while. I'm all for giving shop guys hell when they deserve it, but unless you got in and noticed the temp gauge, I'd let it go.

 

i started the car and the gauge was on cold. the attendant didn't even run it for more than 60 seconds. a pamphlet "rx-8's for dummies" would be nice to distribute to those we must entrust our vehicles. perhaps i'll drop a note in the suggestion box.

-BSG

 

Yeah, its frustrating when you know more than the service techs

 

Perhaps a steering wheel cover with a warning to check the guage before shutting the engine off? Hmmm... I can see the auction now on Ebay.

 

Greetings all.

I've put about 550 miles on the car since the 'fix' and here are the results. MPG post fix, prior to extended highway trip: a whopping 11.96 MPG! MPG on Cincinnati -> Cleveland round trip (about 472 miles): 18.2MPG. This was done at pretty high average speed.

So, to summarize - my 'normal' non-highway MPG has not changed. it's still around 12. I'll run another tank to confirm, and inform the dealer. Any advice would be appreciated.

One final note - I have installed the RotaryExtreme CAI. My dealer warns me that it could have a negative effect on MPG due to changing the turbulence the engine is expecting. (??).

Back to the drawing board...

 

Interesting VelocityRedRX8, My MPG is pretty low now too, about 12 MPG! used to be 18-20. Lately it's been really cold out, and about halfway to work my car finally warms up. My car runs rich as hell too. Instead of a fuel tank, I think I need a fuel tanker. I'm going to stop by the dealer this week.

 

Dang, that's low MPG compared to my Twin Turbo RX7 that makes 280 hp (lightly modded). It's one good reason to stay away from RX8. (the other being poor dealer service/knowledge on rotary).

 

first of all, I don't think you own an RX8, so your posts are very subjective, and not quatified personally. Second of all, I get about 11 mpg, but I floor it all the time, so I deserve it! Other gassers, I would get about 15 mpg on other turbo cars, so the RX8 is not that far off.

What dealers are you quoting as having poor service/knowledge on rotaries? I doubt that every dealer has poor service

I'd be interested as what ones you have experience with as having poor service, especially for all the peeps here in your local area!

 

Thanks for mentioning that, Gord96BRG.

I have no idea what they mean by a tank. Did they run a full tank to EMPTY?

 

last tank. Full to empty

272 miles.
Filled with 13.2
20.6 mpg
approx 50% city 50% highway

Tank before

286
filled with 12.8
22.34 mpg
approx 80% highway 20% city

Best going to Las Vegas
334
filled with 13.3
25.11mpg
approx 98% highway 2% city

 

Take a look at this post. I'll take a look at my spread sheet tonight and post the averages.
https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?postid=88817

 

For those of you who had service techs shut your car off cold, did you notice whether they revved the engine a bit just before shutting it off?

I was told by my salesman, and have read in postings here too, that if you're shutting your engine off cold, you should gently rev it up to around 5K, and then turn off the ignition. This shuts the fuel pump off while the rotors are still spinning quite a bit, and thus spins out any excess remaining fuel that would cause flooding.

If the techs did that, your car might have been treated better than you realize. just a thought.