Since when were Rx8's worthless?

Rocky · Post by **Rocky** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 5:39 pm

Dbo wrote:we have a guy down here with a highly modded one that is in Tesco's all the time everytime he parks and walks away the car is always still running, people run after him shouting he has left his engine on
but his alarm system is set to close all windows, lock doors and switch off the engine when it has reached tempture!!!

he says that so short a drive to shops that the car does not reach full temp and if you switch off and try to restart this will blow the lump probally what kwik-fit done and drokked it!!!!

Sounds like a turbo timer, mate of mine had one on his GT4, he had the same with people chasing after him to tell him he's left his engine running

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:38 am

The nissan pulsar im doing the engine and box swap in atm has a turbo timer and the guy who owns it was telling me about when he fitted a new oil filter and the threads were wrong on it and it blew it straight off. He shut the ignition off but the car was still running fo 30 seconds because of the turbo timer. Ouch aye.

Post by **rob quilter** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:53 am

I heard that one reliability issue with the rx8 was caused by the engine map, 2005+ models had a different map which made them more reliable. If you had an earlier model, mazda would put the same engine map on that the later models have, unfortunately with the older ones...the damage was already done and changing the map wouldn't fix it.