So I was driving home from work when suddenly my engine starts running rough and loosing power.

When I come to a stop I notice smoke rising from the hood.

**** I think something's seriously wrong, so I get it towed to Mazda and they tell me that 2 of the ignition coils are dead.

Is this normal? I just crossed 100,000 KM (about 60,000miles) do ignition coils suddenly fail at this age or is there some maintenance I should have been doing that could have prevented this?

-Palle

 

Search. Yes it is normal. And what was the smoke from? That is not from ignition coils unless you had an electrical fire or something.

 

I actually just got mine out of the shop yesterday because one of my coils was burnt out and there was a second one that was about to go. I have an 09 R3 that has 38K miles on it, and I maintenance it religiously. Anyone care to pop in and say how often they've had to change theirs? I'm rather curious. From what I know, they usually go every 30K miles or so.

 

Had one set last me 5k miles. After that I upgraded. Stock coils are crap.

 

Is this something particular to stock coils on the RX-8? Coils failing is not a car problem I frequently hear about?