simple question

Aubec · July 02, 2009, 09:53:53 AM

Lets stop feeding the troll guys, he\'s not even been back on the forum since he posted that.

Ban, mods?

chrisJDM · July 02, 2009, 10:33:56 AM

thing is he has posted 65 times, why would you go on a forum for a car you dont even like and post that amount of times??

clive · July 02, 2009, 10:41:10 AM

Quote from: Aubec;622195Lets stop feeding the troll guys, he\'s not even been back on the forum since he posted that.

Ban, mods?

Hi Aubec,

Your right that this may have been put up purely as inflammatory post and if that is the case then we would ask Johnny to close the door behind him as he is leaving, just like we would expect anyone else to who doesn\'t like either our cars or our club,

However it could be that this is a valid question and I am sure if this is the case he will let us know,

One thing I will say though is that this has brought some very good comments out from our members as to why we all love our cars,

clive · July 02, 2009, 10:52:35 AM

Quote from: chrisrx7;622205thing is he has posted 65 times, why would you go on a forum for a car you dont even like and post that amount of times??

Hi Chris,

Like you I looked back and considered the same scenario, however it is clear that some people visit this forum every day despite being completely uninterested in bringing any thing constructive to the club and actually look for ways of posting their dislike for the club, in other words some have nothing better to do with their lives !

BlitzBoy · July 02, 2009, 10:57:54 AM

Quote from: johnnywas;621628just thought i would ask,is their anyone who has never had any bother with their rex ,reason i ask is this forum is full of people with blown engines or something,i thought about a rex but after driveing 2 i cant see wat you guys put up with one of the most unreliable cars proberly ever made,

Well you probably never drove one that is working correctly and cared for.
I can give you a passenger ride at RS in mine, make sure you bring some toilet roll and some new pants for after for yourself lol

My car is the height of reliable at the moment since my new engine config last year, 60 plus high powered drag runs ,10 plus 10 second quarters, driven regularly at weekends on the roads, ! No breakages! , not bad for a 555 bhp :burnout

chrisJDM · July 02, 2009, 11:49:06 AM

Quote from: clive;622209Hi Chris,

Like you I looked back and considered the same scenario, however it is clear that some people visit this forum every day despite being completely uninterested in bringing any thing constructive to the club and actually look for ways of posting their dislike for the club, in other words some have nothing better to do with their lives !

hmmmmm what a waste of time, i dont like alfa romeos but dont go on there forums slating them and respect that there are people out there that do like them. At the end of the day cars are all down to personal preference and opinions, its good to have a bit of banter now and again but as long as it doesnt get nasty. My mate has a Supra TT and im always telling him its slow and crap but he knows im only messing but if another guy ccame along who he didnt know and said your supras crap he might get offended.

johnnywas · July 02, 2009, 06:05:59 PM

wow,some of you guys could start a war,i asked a question which i thought was an honest one,which was has anybody never had any bother with ther rex ,its an easy question,reason i asked is i asked an importer guy i know if he could import a rex for me and he said if i got one he would never take one in a trade as thay are nothing but bother,he even said that the rx8 is starting to be a problem to,so there you go i wasnt looking for a fight, just ask a simple question.

Lisa · July 02, 2009, 06:26:49 PM

Quote from: johnnywas;622395wow,some of you guys could start a war,i asked a question which i thought was an honest one,which was has anybody never had any bother with ther rex ,its an easy question,reason i asked is i asked an importer guy i know if he could import a rex for me and he said if i got one he would never take one in a trade as thay are nothing but bother,he even said that the rx8 is starting to be a problem to,so there you go i wasnt looking for a fight, just ask a simple question.

I think the simple answer to that is the way you started the thread in the first place,

30th June 2009 07:03 PM
johnnywas simple question

just thought i would ask,is their anyone who has never had any bother with their rex ,reason i ask is this forum is full of people with blown engines or something,i thought about a rex but after driveing 2 i cant see wat you guys put up with one of the most unreliable cars proberly ever made,

All you done is proved how much our members love their rotaries, and the forum is not full of people with blown engines. We have over 6500 members regsitered on this forum and thousands of posts, so you must trawled through an awful lot of them. Think your talking to the wrong guy with regard to getting a rotary, better to speak to the members here who could offer better advice!

chrisJDM · July 02, 2009, 06:28:07 PM

soz johnny just assumed by the way you wrote your post you where looking at slating the car. It may be this importer has had a few problems with them therefore having a bad view on the car, im sure if you asked several other importers they may tell a diferent story some may like them and some may not. like i said before its all down to personal opinions, one person may say rx7s are crap supras are awesome, another person says supras are crap skylines are awesome blah blah blah

skybusr34 · July 02, 2009, 06:52:45 PM

Quote from: NurburgRob;621863If you have to ask the question, you\'ve probably never driven one

perfect answer :-)

chrisJDM · July 02, 2009, 07:31:15 PM

I owned a FD for 4 years and have recently sold it, it was the first performance car i have owned, it was a really sad day to see it go and i really did not want to sell it more of a case of needed to. I will however be looking at buying another performance car in a year or so, ive known for a while i would have to sell my FD so have considered many other cars, skyline, evo, pulsar, impreza, soarer, integra etc etc but evertime i come back to the FD. I have experienced many other performance jap cars in different states of tune as i run a japanese car club so have had passenger rides or driven many of the different performace jap car you can get. Still the FD is the car for me, none of the others offer the same thrill, raw performance, looks that i want

Jono FD3 · July 02, 2009, 07:39:46 PM

I can kind of see where johnny is coming from regarding the importer!! A friend of mine imports cars & they imported an FD (which I stripped & sold on here for them) but after 6 months she threw a tip, purely because they knew nothing about the cars, ran it on std fuel with 1bar boost on a std jap ecu, full exhaust system & REA Intake. as a result the thing whent bang & now they will not import another no mater who asks for one!

It\'s the old saying "once bitten, twice shy!" But I can vouge for the reliability of my FD, starts every time hot or cold & she is well over due a rebuild due to mileage!! I\'ve done about 15k miles since I bought it 4 years ago and never once have I ended up on the side of the road! and ontop of this you have the epic handleing & the WOW factor due to their rarity. even now there are more R35 GTR\'s in my locality than RX7\'s!!!

Jono

Prof · July 02, 2009, 07:49:37 PM

Quote from: johnnywas;621628just thought i would ask,is their anyone who has never had any bother with their rex ,reason i ask is this forum is full of people with blown engines or something,i thought about a rex but after driveing 2 i cant see wat you guys put up with one of the most unreliable cars proberly ever made,

Quote from: johnnywas;621628wow,some of you guys could start a war,i asked a question which i thought was an honest one,which was has anybody never had any bother with ther rex ,its an easy question,reason i asked is i asked an importer guy i know if he could import a rex for me and he said if i got one he would never take one in a trade as thay are nothing but bother,he even said that the rx8 is starting to be a problem to,so there you go i wasnt looking for a fight, just ask a simple question.

The question quite clearly is a \'loaded one\'. If you meant to ask how people find their rotaries for reliability - then phrasing it another way would definitely have been the way to go. :rolleyes:

But to pick apart your first question - you start with what seems like resignation to an already known or conceived response you might get, and then lead in with a negative - asking if there is anyone who has never had problems - perhaps to ask what sort of problems people had had might have given you less of a caustic response from people.

Then you continue with what can only be described as a very innacurate and sweeping statement about the forum being full of people with blown engines - I suppose in a way that is true - most of the forum members have turbo\'s or supechargers :Giggle - but I believe you were referring to engine failure - I think if you come to RS6 you might see quite a few rotaries under their own power. :driving

Then of course you finish with a statement that clearly is going to get people on the defensive about their cars.

Go ahead and re read your first question - I\'ve quoted it to save you going back to the first page - and you\'ll see that it wasn\'t well conceived and not really asking for information - it appears to be designed to get a reaction - well it\'s achieved it\'s goal. :spank

philiwily · July 03, 2009, 01:00:39 AM

Ive done 15,000 mile in my FD and replaced a water pump and passenger window switch, better than my last Scooby.
I believe most engine trouble is caused by add ons and then a lack of tuning or servicing.
Last week while Iwas washing the car I had a wee pug owning boy racer tell me my engine needs rebuilt every 20,000.
I told him they last a bit longer than that, he then said RX8\'s definately need a rebuild every 20,000 and he had 180bhp and it would be a good race as his car is lighter, I just laughed.
My point was lots of people have a strong opinion on rotaries without having any evidence to back it up.

Phil