What's up y'all this my first rx8 I got it a couple of days ago and it was running fine up untill today. Started when I was on the freeway noticed my car kick n start to miss just a little so I thought oh it's sensitive let me put some gas cause I was a little below a quarter tank. Got off no problem put gas car started right up and I took off thinking it cleared up. I get a couple of blocks from the gas station and it start missfiring worse then before so I get the car home park it turned it off n now it won't start oh and I was driving the check engine was flashing the whole time n it smelled like gas bad could I have just put bad gas?

 

Oh it's a 2004 with 129k miles n the last 8 #s on the vin are 40104894

 

Wow
Compression test

 

check to see if all 4 plugs are firing.

you could do this manually by removing each plug wire by hand with the engine running but i wouldn't advise it.


but ideally hook up a timing light to each wire and crank the engine while checking the light's output.

 

Sounds like really old plugs.

 

Ok I'm try those two things out here in a bit when I back home. Had to go take care of family things first before I can mess with the car. Back to my boring Benz hopefully I can get this taken care of quickly miss driving her already lol

 

See my signature at the bottom of this post, specifically the flashing CEL comment.

 

thanx riwwp for the link helped out alot. turned out to be my coil packs so i replaced them and now the car turns on fine and runs awesome! and no more check engine light on

 

Please dont use your hands to do this... Use spark plug wire pullers.

 

I got it running fine had no check engine when I took off got on the freeway headed home about 20 mins later my check engine comes back on but didn't effect the driving of the car so now gotta find out what it's for now. Oh and it happened to be that two coil packs went out on me

 

When you replaced your coil packs, did you diconnect the terminal from the battery? The CEL you now have could be a new code but it could also be a pending code that wasn't cleared. Have the CEL read with an OBD II reader, you can delete the CEL with that device but your code will still be stored in memory. Click on this link for the https://www.rx8club.com/trouble-shoo...memory-169443/.