That's what I thought and that's why I follow service manual intervals.

Saying that changing oil at 3.5K would prevent engine failure at 5K sounds a bit crazy to me. Sorry.

Anyway I took my car to dealerhip this morning.
It's about 40 miles from my home - all h/w miles.
Car barely started today and felt toally powerless but after about 35 miles it "cured", not exaclty as it was before but most much more powerfull than it was just 35 miles ago.
WTF?

This time I had to sign paper saying that I'll be charged some $140 for inspection and $36 for car rental. Look's like "free" repairs are over

 

sorry man, must be a horrible experience going through all of that, especially since its such a nice car. i will be getting my rx8 soon and i hope nothing like that happens. good luck with the car.

 

depending on how old/new the 8 you get is you will prob have to get most of the work the OP posted done. Majority of them are normal TSBs

 

ive seen many '05 6mt with less than 40k miles for sale. ill prolly be getting one of those. i hope the previous owner did all the work the OP did so i dont have to.

 

Well, looks like I'm screwed.

Service adviser told me that engine is OK it is jut loaded with carbon.
Apparently 5K is enough for that.

Now they want to do following:
New spark plugs - $298.00
Fuel injector cleaning - $98.00
Rental car 2 days @ 36.20 - $72.00
Some service fee - $140.00

On top of that they want to put new starter - $667.00, I actually complained about that hard start issue when I had 4/50K warranty but they could not find anything wrong!

Any advices?

 

Found TSB
http://www.finishlineperformance.com...4-08-1924g.pdf
It says clearly decarb procedure has to be performed when loss of power reported and it is covered under 8/100 warranty.

I guess I'll have to talk to them tomorrow again.