Or at least that is what I think happened to my 2004 RX8. After almost an hour of city traffic on a hot day I pulled into my garage and turned the key off. I thought I heard the car still reving but it could have been a very loud fan. I opened the door of the car and got out to confirm it was coming from under the hood. I got back in an turned the key to "on" -- I did not start the engine. The noise stoped. I turned it off and everthing seemed fine.

This is my first rotary engine and I have had it for only a few weeks. Any of you more experience folks know what happen?

 

rotaries run a ll hotter than normal. this one too is my first rotary, congrats my car does the same thing when im driving home, its just a fan kicking in. my brothers SVO used to do the same thing. I noticed that when you turn the key on, yeah the fan will shut off. the fan also shuts off when the engine temp cools as well, no biggy =)

 

First, don't worry. Ever since the auto manufactures went to electric fans mounted to the radiators first as supplemental fans to the belt driven fans now exclusively electric radiator mounted fans, there is a thermal conductor or thermostat type switch on the fans that keep the fans running on the car until the coolant drops in temp. This process happens on all car similarly equipped with eclectic fans, not just the RX8. That ends up cooling the radiator after the engine is off. Just a automatic temp control system. After awhile you get used to it and once you get to understand the reason behind it more you begin to appreciate the process more.

 

Read Your Manual. and let it run do not turn the key to on to make it stop. it has a job to do- let it do it.

 

I hope we don't have to go through this all summer, Search is your friend ....

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-trouble-shooting-95/ok-freaky-63437/

 

we will and then it'll stop until next spring/summer. but we have something to look forward to in the fall when the posts start again about "my TPMS light was on this morning. i drove for 10 minutes and then it went off. when i got to work i checked and the pressures were fine. is there something wrong with my TPMS" although its all probably my fault. i spend too much time posting and not any time fixing the FAQ. this is as far as i have gotten on the FAQ-


1. RTFM
2. RTFM
3. RTFM
4. RTFM
5. Search

 

lol zoom

I was just about to bash him but you guys did a pretty good job :D

 

not bashing him really- just letting off some angst over the same questions all the time. I mean this question you dont even have to use the search function for right now. just scroll down thru the threads and there are at least 2 others easily found.

 

Sorry if asked a question I should not have. I have read the manual and understood it could have been the fan. I did look for other threads that might have answered the question but I did not find them -- maybe I don't know how to do a reasonable search here. There was much more noise that I expected and I was worried about the car.

I joined this group with two goals. One was to learn about my new car. I will continue to work on that but mainly by "lurking". I had also hoped to find a group of people that might accept a new person who did not know as much as most of the rest of the group. It looks like I will fail there.

 

Sorry if asked a question I should not have. I have read the manual and understood it could have been the fan. I did look for other threads that might have answered the question but I did not find them -- maybe I don't know how to do a reasonable search here. There was much more noise that I expected and I was worried about the car.

I joined this group with two goals. One was to learn about my new car. I will continue to work on that but mainly by "lurking". I had also hoped to find a group of people that might accept a new person who did not know as much as most of the rest of the group. It looks like I will fail there.

 

^no worries..hehe someof these guys need to get out some..but we still lvoe them..they make my work days entertaining. welcome to teh club (cult)..and congrats on your car :D

haha ask me anything you want through pm's i may not be the smartest..but i like to think i know thing or two...maybe even 3 :p

edit: by the way i don't think they meant to be harsh or to make you feel unwelcome. :D in a few months you'll probbale make a "do a search" joke or two...hehehe it's almost liek a right of passage :p

 

sorry bob- you are absolutely most welcome here. as i said in another thread yesterday- its my fault really. i took up the challange of updating the faq for just such occasions and had failed to actually do any work on it. but thanks to your post and another i actually got my lazy *** working on it and got some done and posted yesterday. so i thank you for that

 

hmm one thing you will learn is we eat our young
but always remember SEARCH and then search somemore
most likely it has been talked before.
and if hasnt then we will be glad to try to help
welcome aboard

 

didn't mean to come across as being unfriendly either, but the link I copied where we asnwered the exact same question two days before you asked yours was only about ten posts down from the top of the page. You would have had your answer almost immediately.

Just imagine people asking the same question over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over .... I think you get the idea. For the regulars it starts to wear thin after awhile.

Just be glad nobody told you to Read The -------- Manual , which this is from:

 

ha ha good thing I waited :o ... I was wondering that same thing to as a new bee ..lol.. you head bashers in here :D ..