Mazda recalls all of it's RX8s for engine replacements

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Now THAT is a pricey recall.

MONTEREY, Calif. -- After suffering a black eye from disclosing that it won't count RX-8 owners' opinions in its internal customer-satisfaction scores, Mazda says it may have to replace the engines in many of its flagship sports cars.

The voluntary recall of all 2004 and 2005 vehicles, and some 2006s, is expected to be announced this week or next. It involves damage to the catalyst resulting from oil leaks in the RX-8's rotary engine.

Any engine that does not pass a vacuum test must be replaced, said Robert Davis, head of product development and quality at Mazda North American Operations.

Engines prone to failing the test are mostly in hot climates and use synthetic oils.

Mazda also will check each RX-8's battery and starter, which tend to fail in cold climates.

"We're going to give these cars the white-glove treatment," Davis said. "We would rather replace the engine than have the dealer crack them open."

Davis would not disclose the projected failure rate of the engines or the cost to replace them.

Mazda has a remanufacturing center in North Carolina that will rebuild faulty engines and return them to service.

The recall comes after a video Webcast by two dealers who attended the July 11-13 National Dealer Advisory Council meetings in Newport Beach, Calif., was leaked on the Internet.

In the video, dealers said problems with the RX-8 were unfairly lowering Mazda customer-satisfaction scores.

Mazda informed the dealers that RX-8 owners would continue to be surveyed, but that the responses would not factor into dealer customer-satisfaction scores.

Mazda has issued service bulletins on such trouble spots as squeaky brakes and engine flooding.
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I would imagine they would have thought about that in engineering of the vehicle....Roaterys have alwayse used oil....they have an oil injection built in them......alot of people will take it off and just have to add oil to the gas when they fill up, kinda like a 2 stoke.....oils gotta go somewhere once it leaves the combustion chamber
 
my cousin has already had the cat converter replaced once under warranty.. he needs to take his in and get a free engine
 
boosted gt said:
my cousin has already had the cat converter replaced once under warranty.. he needs to take his in and get a free engine
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before he does that lets see what a 300 shot would do!!!
 
Thats funny...my old boss had one on the bottle. He went thru 3 or 4 intakes.
 
rule dont run synthetic in a rotary. rule 2 remove oil injection, and premix. rule 3 remove all emission equipment the car will run better, make more power, get better gas mileage, and be like 120lbs lighter. rule 4 dont buy a rotary, because if it makes any power at all, its not if it blows up, its just when. boost in the intake, equals apex seals out the exhaust
 
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Ortontucky Terror said:
. rule 4 dont buy a rotary, because if it makes any power at all, its not if it blows up, its just when. boost in the intake, equals apex seals out the exhaust
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lol it took me 4 tries reading this to figure out what the hell you just said.
 
but they still run when theyre broken, unless it didnt kick the seal out the exhaust, and somehow wedged it between the rotorface and housing, then it can bend the e-shaft(crank) in roto speak, wipe out bearings, all kinds of weird shit can happen then.
 
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