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Thanks Guys....

Been absolutely manic. B***tards randomly took their house off the market so back to full on house hunting. Sigh - I get all the luck haha.

I'll pickup a bottle of two stroke.

Had a good chat to Carl Hayward the other day - good guy. Probably going to look to save up and get a proper good tune up done.

Got stranded at Halfords the other day and had to wait 30mins for engine to cool off before it would start. Other than that been running great 

Just picked up my motor, started hot. Oil leaked fixed, oil change and new filter. More powerful starter motor fitted all for 1/4 cost that local garage wanted. They checked ignition and said all fine. All things considered pretty happy!

Comp test results @ 291 rpm Rear 5.2, 4.9, 5.4 Front 4.5, 4.1, 4.3. From what I've read that's not great and I'm looking at a rebuild pretty soon right?

At least I can get from A - B in the meanwhile

Maybe shiny bits are not completely out of the question. For now at least I have a pretty tidy std 05 model rather than a non-runner.

So spoke to the garage again and and it's below 4 bar. Couldn't get a reading on digital meter. That's cranking @ 280 I think they said.

They're going to re-run the test to double check. Hopefully the meter was just misbehaving.

I've asked them to fix the oil leak and check/replace any ignition issues for now while I figure out if/how/when I can afford a rebuild.

Sucks 

They said 'no' compression. I wouldn't know how to make sense of the figures so didn't ask but he offered to show me if I could pop down.

Engine light wasn't on no.

Could do without spending the money but on the other hand it is very appealing to have the reassurance that would come with it.

They're going to check the coils (and rest of ignition) at the same time and change if needed.

At least after all this work I'll have in theory a decent motor with a warranty on the engine.

Funny thing is it's around the same price as that other place wanted for fixing the oil leak and replacing a starter motor that didn't even need replacing. I guess I have that to be happy about at least!

So they've ran a compression test and I'm looking at a rebuild. The rotary guys say the starter is absolutely fine and they can fix the oil cooler hoses for a fraction of the price of the other garage.

News I could have done without. 

Shiny go faster bits will have to wait a while after stumping up for a rebuild but I'll be at Castle combe this year for sure!

Yehman just spoke to Chris. Not been able to get through all day.

I've told local garage not to touch another thing and rotary motion going to pickup from them tomorrow.

I'm well cuffed. The prices and amount of labor rotary motion were qouting are actually affordable.

Will keep you posted. Thanks so much for the help!

Wow thanks that's somewhat cheaper!

Sweet cheers!

I'll give Chris a buzz tomorrow and go from there.

I was well down in the dumps - so glad I posted here. Had no idea there was any rotary specialists nearby. Legend.

Yeh leads were labelled and all out at once but they went back in the same orientation. I think the leads were all black but can't remember.

RE8's in lead and RE9's in trail. The old ones that came out were RE7's and RE9's.

It can't be that bad, I check the oil religiously and after bump starting and taking for a run the oil level didn't appear to have dipped. I of course wasn't aware at that point of any split hose.

Looking underneath briefly at the garage it appeared somewhere between a drip and a gush ;-) .

Funny thing is that as far as I could tell (by no means a mechanic) the starter was running like the clappers. The guy I bought it off said he had replaced at some point with the uprated starter.

Myself and Mrs are sharing a car at the moment so I can get around for now. I'll give rotary motion a buzz in the morning and see what they say! Thanks 

Hey boosted,

I'm in Calne, Wiltshire (Sort of near Swindon). Unfortunately I'm in the process of moving house so all my cars paperwork is packed (God knows which box!). I suspected the coils need changing and was in fact planning that as the first job once I move to the new place where I have an actual driveway!

Hi Guys, In new! (woohoo)

So I apparently have some serious problems with my beloved rx8 and could really use some guidance/advice.

I bought an 05 plate 231ps with 58k on the clock and FSH back in April last year. My pride and joy. She's never missed a beat and apart from a small reluctance to start when hot has given me no grief whatsoever until now.

She has barely a scratch on her and when somebody pulled of the headlamp washer jet I sourced a part from scrappy and took it to a local garage so they could drop the bumper and fit it. Cost in region of £140 as needed colour matching too. Despite my instructions  and warnings on how special she was they managed to badly flood the engine.

After attempting the mazda de-flood procedure (disconnect fuel pump crank 4 secs, rest 2 etc blah blah) and failing We bump started and let sit for 30mins before I took on a 10mile drive opening up all injectors and parked back up at home. After allowing to cool I tried to start again and nothing. I checked one of the spark plugs and it was pretty fouled so purchased a new set costing another £120. Being parked up on a busy main road I couldn't do much else other than get a recovery to a local garage.  Another £96...

The local garage changed the plugs and crank over with them out to de-flood and managed to get it started. When I got there they said I had another issue and that there was oil leaking from underneath the front bumper. After inspection they informed me that the oil cooler pipes had corroded and one had split. Mazda mechs advised that once one hose goes they would need to replace the lot and quoted around £800 for the pipework + 4 to 5 hours labour + oil filter and fluids all totalling around £1400. On top of that they say that the only way they can get it to start is by putting in a lot of extra boost through the battery. They are testing the battery overnight but are suspecting that I will also need a new starter motor. They have also read the diags and say that its throwing crankshaft sensor codes, presumably due to the worn out starter?

I only paid £2200 and from the numbers that the mechanics are giving me I'm wondering whether I'm better off cutting my losses and finding a new rx8? Although I feel obliged to keep this fantastic car on the road I'm not sure the numbers add up. Please somebody tell me I'm wrong and the mechanics have made a horrible mistake?