BeyondShadows

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Alright to start off the details of the car

2005, Automatic, Car has 89,000 miles on it, 27,000 on the engine..(was one of the unlucky ones that flooded the first one but picked up the extended warranty when i bought it!!)

First engine went to moving a little ways then cutting it off, Yea i know noob mistake but we gotta learn from them..actually is what brought me to this site after that happened..

This time here is the story..Recently got about a foot of snow where I am, so needless to say I was kinda ready for some RX-8 fun in the snow, but was actually stuck in my driveway which sucks..Anyways after Day 4 I had to get it unstuck to go to work, so I did some shoveling and such trying to get as much Grip as possible.

After a little bit of struggling to get going I got it to move about 10 feet then the car finally died..Now it will not start, (got it started once but had a really rough idle then it died again)..I was pushing it really hard to get unstuck and I think that could be the reason, really high revs in Reverse, spinning at high speeds..but actually had no other alternative but to try it like that..

Has anyone encountered this before? Haven't contacted the dealer yet, wanted to get some opinions first. The warranty is still good for about 6,000 miles

BeyondShadows

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Update: After letting it set for and hour or two, wnt to try and see if it would turn over and it did..Really really bad Idle, and when you rev it up a little it goes very slowly and sounds really rough..(yes it was warmed up before i started revving it up)

Went to put it in Reverse and it almost died completely, put it in Neutral real quick to keep it running..let it sit there for like 3 mins while at idle, put it in Drive and it dropped down to about 750 RPM and i pushed the gas it would not pull at all and wouldnt go past 1000 or 1250 RPM..

StealthTL

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It was flooded and you were lucky to get it going......

Keep a really fast idle (2k) until it's warm, the rev it up real good (blips to 8k)

That MAY clear the crap from the plugs. If it still idles poorly, you MUST take the plugs out and clean them.

Give up on moving it for now, you have bigger problems - if it floods completely you will be waiting for a tow....

BeyondShadows

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Thats what I was thinking it was, you could smell the richness as it was sitting there at idle when i tried the second time..

BeyondShadows

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UPDATE:

Appreciate the help Stealth, that worked BEAutifully...after about 2 min of it at 2000 RPM you can tell it started getting better then once i hit that redline a couple of times it perked right up..then after about 3 hours later finally go it out of my driveway also..