Hello everybody,
Finally I bought rx8. Read few things before purchasing and thanks for all information here it was very helpful. Although car is 2004 with high mileage i got it for a good price, so even if i have to replace engine i think im still good for the money i paid for it.

 

Congrats. Lets see some pics of said ride.

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

welcome to the addiction How much did you get your baby for?

 

Congrats man!

Let the mods begin

 

congrats welcome to the club, post pics

 

How can we even begin to believe such a story, without pics?!?! Seriously, how do we know you didn't buy a Smart car?

 

'how do we know you didn't buy a Smug?'

....fixed that for you.

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Well played, sir!

 

 

How much and pics please...or i won't believe you, lol

 

I think buying my RX8 was one of the best things I've done in a long time. Aside from marring my wife. Yeah, I'm one of the rare happily married guys. lol

 

Thanks, this is what i got. Going to pick it up soon and hopefully everything goes well. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/?cmd=...K%3AMEWNX%3AIT

 

134,600 miles... Did you check the compression?

 

Car looks great and it is the GT-Touring (Best) model. I think I see the check engine light on so it might need some repairs but considering how cheap it was its all good.

 

I don't know any specific details, guy said it runs good(I would too). I figured, even with bad engine i can get it replaced around $3000 and it will be a better car than i can find for $9000.
I have some experience working on cars, but mostly german(2 audis, bmw) as well as working on anything else that my friends bring in my garage. So i feel confident that i can do most of the things myself. Check engine light is on probably because RPMs are on 0 so engine is not started.

 

It does look great, and yeah, I saw the car's not started in those pics, haha.

But when you get her picked up, let us know how it all goes.

She'll probably need quite a bit of maintenance, as most cars do, but other than that, I hope she runs great for you. Give her a nice wash and wax, and get some pics!

 

I have a buddy that lives in streator. We ran in a car club together. Wonder if he knows this car. Off to FB to ask.

 

i picked up the car, looks great even with some minor scratches, scuffs, dings and other 7 year wears. Drives good for the exception of power steering. Never thought i would prefer to drive with out it. When it on it acts weird and dangerously. It turns left without a problem but to turn right even when it PS is on hard. But when its off it drives good but hard. So is there a fuse that i can take out and drive without PS?

 

Doing anything like that will damage your rack and pinion even more than it currently is. I'd honestly suggest just getting it fixed/replaced. Get a new one off of someone on here parting one out or something.

 

I don't see why driving without PS would damage the Rack and Pinion, and the easy one side hard the other sounds like the harness that connects the PS to the every thing else has got some water or other crap in it. Check these threads out before you take it to the shop.

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-tech-garage-22/steering-harder-turn-right-compared-left-198470/

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-trouble-shooting-95/power-steering-failure-107481/page2/

 

Thanks for links, i did that and it drives good now. It still has some weird noises that i will have to check out later like suspension and transmission