mikeb

I have a shop in my area that works on my rx8. They checked a cel for me and it was the gas cap. They believe I have a gas leak.

anyone have this happen?

SOVINE

I've had my car throw a CEL for that a long time ago. I don't have a gas leak, just shitty gas mileage. lol

expo1

I also did, the CEL kept coming back till I bought Stant part #10838 $8.00

mikeb

expo
what part is that?

expo1

Slant makes gas caps, that is the one that fits the RX-8. I could tell it was the cap causing the CEL the first time I took the new one off. Since we don't pump our own gas in Jersey we never pick up on bad gas caps.

mikeb

i dont think its my cap
the shop put a pump on my tank and it has no pressure

Winning 8

get a new cap, because it is a small price to pay just to try it out, if it don't work return it.

mikeb

im trying to say its not the cap
its been tested

Winning 8

could you see gas dripping, or smell gas, you need to trace the lines and etc

mikeb

no gas dripping
no smell of gas

i will check it out saturday

just wondering if anyone had this issue before

Huhwha

Had it on mine a while back. They said they did a leak check and found it to be the gas cap. Funny thing is, they never did anything about it, but no more cels (for that anyway).

w0rm

I just had a CEL thrown and it was found to be the gas cap with a slow leak. There's apparently an updated gas cap that the dealership put on free of charge which resolved the matter.
WO says

INSTALLED UPDATED FUEL CAP--
PN FEY2-42-250 CAP,FUEL

Edit: here's the service bullitin on it: http://miata.net/garage/tsb/01-001-07-1748.pdf
edit: that TSB only applies to 06 RX8s but mine is an 05 and definately 'fixed' it.
Your dealer should fix it for you if they claim it's the cap per that TSB.

DarkBrew

Mine had a CEL for small leak.

Just a loose gas cap. A push and three clicks each time I put on the cap now.

w0rm

I had known about the gas cap issue so I made sure the cap was tight. I cleared KAM and NVRAM and visually inspected the engine bay(I did find a loose C clamp on some of my intake piping!) .. the car was driving fine so when I took it to the dealer to just get an ODB read i was suprised when they went ahead and fixed it.

I guess the cap seal just went belly up.

mikeb

well im taking the car to my tuner shop i use tomorrow
the cel is still on and the car runs poorly right now

im getting a oil change and having new ngk sparks put in since i have not changed mine in 30k miles

mikeb

ok i just had my shop do a oil change, adjust my tein coilovers and replace my spark plugs (ngk).

I stilll have the cel
guys please help me
they think its a bad line or leak from the gas tank
they said it would be 5 or 6 hours labor to reach it cuz they have to pull have the car apart to get to it


damn

swoope

iTrader: (5)

wow,
mike how many miles on the car?

did you have the last recall done.. you have been gone for a while..

beers

mikeb

the car has 65k miles
so the dealer is not going to cover it

what last recall?

ken-x8

Do you know what the code was? Hard for anyone to say something concrete without that. If you know the code, post it here, or do a forum search on it.

When I got a CEL with a P0455, searching P0455 led to really good info. It's evaporative system leak, and for almost everyone it was the gas cap. For one poor guy it was a hole in a tank in the evap system - he had run a screw into it while installing speakers. Cost a bundle to fix.

Ken

Razz1

Do you use Reliable Rotary?

Which shop do you use?

I read the forumn almost every day and haven't heard of a bad tank.

Sorry, can't help.

swoope

iTrader: (5)

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...ghlight=recall

beers

mikeb

thanks guys
i dont have the code of the cel
but i can tell you its NOT the gas tank