I think my neighbors are getting jealous
Ok so here's a few pics of my new baby... just to make everything official

The nice thing is that my production date is April 2004 and I also inherited the Dunlops! (as they were stock).
I'll try to find out if I have the M-flash already, hopefully I do.

 

what are those raised squares under your headlights. I have a GT and my bumper does not have those, just curious.

 

its a Canadian 8. Headlight washers I believe

 

Congrats! :D

 

congrats on your new 8 .i got behind a silver 1 yesterday and the silver looks really nice hope you enjoy.

 

Congrats and Welcome to the Cult!
what acc. did you get?

 

I got base model. no leather, which personally perfer cloth on this car (it is sort a mixture of cloth and neoprene, real nice)and no DSC which I can live with.
Now where can I get myself some of those trunk monkeys...

 

WOW, nice planning on putting any mods?

 

I just got my 8 as well... I luff it. It was "used" with only 4600KM on it... car's in mint shape though, the guy that owned it is a car nut.

It needs to have most of the stuff done to it, I've already seen the oil light flash on at me under acceleration... which likely means the M flash hasn't been done yet.

 

Hey...power headlight washers!! They prevent deadbugs baking to the Xenon headlights. Everywhere else in the world gets this but us American owners!!

 

I think headlight washers are an option for us in America. I remember reading about it in the manual.

 

Hey - to check for the M Flash, turn the key to ON and then tap the brake pedal at least 20 times in 8 seconds. If you have the M Flash, your Oil guage will cycle from low to middle and back to low. There is a post somewhere in the forum about this if you want to search for more details. My car was also manufactured in April and that's how I verified it on mine. Interesting though, I didn't get Dunlops, mine came with Bridgestones.

 

very nice, silver was my 2nd choice, but a neihbor down the street had one, so didnt even consider it lol

 

According to the VIN# theory - I should have the M-flash since my VIN last digits is greater than 35536.
But I will try the brake test tomorrow to absolutely sure.

I have a question guys - when comes time to add a quart of oil, can you mix Mobil 1 (synthetic) with the regular 5w30 stuff from the dealer? which in my case is Petro Canada... cheap oil brand if you ask me.
Or should I just use any non-synthetic 5w30?

 

Mazda tells us to NOT use synthetic oil on our 8s!!!

 

Stick with non-synthetic 5w30. By design the rotary burns a little oil during combustion, and synthetic doesn't burn the same.

 

Man, I have to stop reading these posts of people picking up their new 8's, especially when it is the same color I want!

Must...hold...out.....for..05.....model!

Congrats!

 

"Regular or synthetic"--many, many, many threads on it, but it boils down to that if you want to be on the safe side, stick with high-quality regular. As far as top-offs go, I was raised to believe you never mix regular and synthetic, no matter which one's already in the engine.

. . . and if you can afford this car and the gas it consumes, you can afford a quart of the good stuff every once in a while.

Peace
policy

 

i thought we were sposta use 5w 20 (not 5w 30)