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I really wish you had contacted someone like Haywards after you had had the accident in the first place. You could have had a decent payout from the insurance instead of a dead engine and a scrapped Rex.
Basically because you had to that big impact to the rear of the car which meant you had to replace the exhaust due to the impact of the bike where do you think a good percentage of that impact engergy on the exhaust travelled up to with no real flexi on the exhaust system It all went straight upto the engine.
I had an accident someone went in to the rear of me at a set of lights and Haywards insisted on checking out their freshly rebuilt engine as any shockloading like that can damage the engine tips. Mine was all ok but the insurance company had a bit of a bottom clenching moment when i told them the engine was being inspected for damage with a possible rebuild cost of £2.5k....
such as shame as it sounds like a shockloading problem has occured and damage a seal or tip which has now fragged itself into an engine failure when you took it to 10/10ths.
Basically because you had to that big impact to the rear of the car which meant you had to replace the exhaust due to the impact of the bike where do you think a good percentage of that impact engergy on the exhaust travelled up to with no real flexi on the exhaust system It all went straight upto the engine.
I had an accident someone went in to the rear of me at a set of lights and Haywards insisted on checking out their freshly rebuilt engine as any shockloading like that can damage the engine tips. Mine was all ok but the insurance company had a bit of a bottom clenching moment when i told them the engine was being inspected for damage with a possible rebuild cost of £2.5k....
such as shame as it sounds like a shockloading problem has occured and damage a seal or tip which has now fragged itself into an engine failure when you took it to 10/10ths.
CedricN said:
Was that really the best solution? Why not buy an engine from a scrapped car, should be plenty around, and cheap. Swapping engines in an rx8 must be pretty easy..
Changing the engine is the easy bit, ensuring a supply of fresh engines is the problem.The VAG 1.8 Route sounds good, if someone could produce a kit to make it easier for say a grand, the engines can be had fairly cheaply and are plentiful, would make a good option. Make me wonder how many RX8's are being scrapped now due to engine failure as they are worth very little due to the engine issues, more cars than engines out there and I think people when face with a two grand bill on a car worth not much more may just weigh it in which is a shame.
Be a shame to but a VAG lump in a RX8? It takes away its unique feature to my view?
I like that people say "buy a Porsche instead, the engines are properly developed and bulletproof" without a single reference to Boxsters and the RMS/IMS failures that randomly write them off and make the secondhand values such predicament.
I do feel for this chap, his car looked very good. I do wonder if the previous accident led to this failure? Like I said earlier, my M54 lump in the 330i failed at under 100k miles before the 13b in my RX7 ever did (at the same miles but 9 more years as it was very much older).
Hope you have fun in whatever you buy next
I like that people say "buy a Porsche instead, the engines are properly developed and bulletproof" without a single reference to Boxsters and the RMS/IMS failures that randomly write them off and make the secondhand values such predicament.
I do feel for this chap, his car looked very good. I do wonder if the previous accident led to this failure? Like I said earlier, my M54 lump in the 330i failed at under 100k miles before the 13b in my RX7 ever did (at the same miles but 9 more years as it was very much older).
Hope you have fun in whatever you buy next
R26Andy said:
Failure is normally more gradual wear/loss of compression due to oil wash out by unburnt fuel from dodgy coil packs.
More internet untruths about rotaries!I took a guy for a test drive in a Rx7 i was selling, it was as sweet as a nut, we stopped at a cash point and in the time it took him to get a deposit out it blew a water seal!
Failures, just like Dales are usually catastrophic and quick, but as Dale mentioned, i could have an engine rebuild for my Rx7 with 30 months or 30k miles warranty for £3k (inc removal/replacement) with no caveats as to what the car is used for (track, dift, drag or road) or how much hp it runs, id say that is pretty good value for money!
Edited by RX7 on Thursday 30th August 12:55
LotusAlfaV6bloke said:
I like that people say "buy a Porsche instead, the engines are properly developed and bulletproof" without a single reference to Boxsters and the RMS/IMS failures that randomly write them off and make the secondhand values such predicament.
Yep, wife's Boxster 2.7 has RMS and is blowing a bit of smoke (white and blue randomly). Only got 50k on the clock and two female owners. No guarantees on any car tbh.RX7 said:
R26Andy said:
Failure is normally more gradual wear/loss of compression due to oil wash out by unburnt fuel from dodgy coil packs.
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