Originally Posted by Mazdabater' date='Dec 30 2002, 08:58 PM

I bought my rx7 2 weeks after I drove in a buddies . . .absoulutley loved it and never looked back.

heres my record :



1st year, usual stuff nothing major for first six months then, turbo lag problems out da yin yang.

took it to a local Mazda dealer (hey guys go easy on me . . .I didn't know that they know as little about it as me . . .at the time) cost $4800 bucks before it was on the road.

off the road for 2 months



4 months later, smoke out the rear (normally I see a doctor for this . . .and it would of been cheaper) problem with seals, rotor and engine needed to be sent to specialist for small rebiuld work . . .(again a Mazda dealer) 5 grand . . .this fix took a couple of months to get parts, fit in the schedule etc



at this point I had owned the car 14 months and had it in the shop roughly 5 months, so I bought a runaround jeep sahara. and Im glad I did too!



next year I had a problem with electrics, when it got wet . . I had too as well . . push the thing home!

cost a couple of hundred



pop up light crapped out on me . . cost a few hundred (its odd because I hit a deer in it a few weeks ago and have just changed to a Rotary Extreme sleek light kit . . .should of done that the first time.



things like this carried on for the following years then, a couple of months ago I added up the first 4 years . . . somewhare around 12 - 15 thousand bucks!



but I think of it this way . . .every time I drive it . . .its well worth it, well worth it.



Just this week I noticed that the gear box crunches a little in 5th gear . . .oh **** get ready!!!

and the turbos sometimes stutter when I accelerate hard....but . . . its worth it



now It has become more of a hobby than a worry, buy an additional piece of **** and just plan on enjoying the rx7 hobby and crowd that go with it.



Drive one . . .Drive one HARD . . .its all worth it!



If you buy one . . .get a good mechanic, I just moved to Atlanta area 6 months ago and have been really searching hard for someone, im not willing to just give my baby to anybody that says they can work on it . . .( and Im still looking)



the car started to overheat so I had it towed to the local advertised mazda specialist, this guy actually told me "the head gasket has probably blown", I had it towed out of the garage and took it else where!