Dead engine. What next?

[t2rew]

its a real shame and i do know what its like as mine blew after 3000 miles. i also blamed the last owner but i think in realaty how could you know if it was going to blow? a freand of mine had a 126 merc, old s type. he did it up and sold it and it blew up the next day . he was as surprised as the new owner. put it down as caricter biulding and be happy in the knowlage that when you get it fixed you can relax with many more miles to come :cool

[rx7veilside]

more like soul destroying

[deanflowers]

know exactly how you feel, it isn\'t that difficult taking the engine out yourself that way you could save some money, buyt the vids off rotary aviation before dismissing it.

iam in the middle of doing mine after a very similar experince and ended up buying a peugeot for £100 the good news is that someone just offered £500 for it so a few more of these could pay for my engine rebuild:D

[Grizzly]

All i can say is come back is a wounderfull thing, If you do this your self and it doesn\'t run right your F**ked and 9 times out of ten end up taking it to a Seven man anyway.

Then there is the "Missed somthing on a rebuild" and on a Water seal falure is easly missed if your not an Engineer with all the measuring gear (Overheating is worse than Apex faliure!!)

And Don\'t Flame me for this but i am a big beliver in getting someone that knows what there doing to look at a car for me before taking the Plunge. I know its a Nice looking car and peoples head goes all swerly but its alot of money!! and like any deal where cash changes hands i like to know what i\'m getting. Even if its a AA or RAC report, dodgy as they are there is some come back on them. A bad water seal would have been ovious and one of the things they would have checked (exhaust gasses in water).

All i\'m trying to say is there is a moral behind things like this, if you don\'t know what your looking at or dazzled by the Lights get a pro to look at it. Just becouse you bough a Bad car with out knowing a bit about them don\'t pass the Buck. Its Not a NON MEMBER thing.

[Denny]

Uh, thanks, but we already had this conversation once in this thread, and we know it\'s not a \'non member\' thing.  Also, I\'ve said that I should have been more suspicious when buying.

The fact that I didn\'t spot I was being sold a lemon doesn\'t make the person who sold it any less of an arsehole though...  it just makes me a sucker too.

All the good points you make have already been made, and the bad ones too I think.  Thanks for your contribution anyway.

[rx7veilside]

lets not kick the guy when hes down he is only venting his anger as we all wld if we buy a car and then have a 3 grand bill i think the main point is the guy selling had only posted what 5 times and prob only came on here to flog it and has no interest in the rotary scene which is very good for helping each other..the guy selling def knew it was a lemon hence the unable to start and warming the car are first.i note he hasnt come on here to defend himself in any way so i think dennys point about non member is fairly valid..i am not a member as yet but am fairly active on the forums

[Grizzly]

Fair enough hes down on his luck but don\'t it get on your nerves when people don\'t read up and do the Ovious stuff before buying one then blame every thing and every one.

Its how the RX7 got a bad name.

[Denny]

I\'m not blaming \'everything and everyone\', I\'m blaming the guy who sold it in a faulty condition.  Will you stop posting in this thread if you don\'t have anything helpful to add to it please?

[clive]

Hi Denny,

Real sorry to hear this

One of the main reasons this club and forum exists was because there really was no way of people finding out info on these cars before MRC and hopefully we have saved many from a similar fate.

Sadly l understand from James that the car was a problem from the off!!!!

With these cars they should start n stop first time every time if there\'s a problem, leave them alone and l say this not to rub it in to you but to hopfully deter people in the future who may be reading this post.

As Jason says stuff does just happen but hopefully we can at least to minimise people buying bad cars.

I hope that this has not put you off of these cars to much because even at 12K you will find it hard to buy an equivalent car that will give you so much driving entertainment for the money.