vallea1

how many miles you can run before having to rebuild my engine , how long the engine last ?

dozer

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depends on how well you maintain it

vallea1

its used and have 86000 k

dozer

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get a carfax, make sure all recalls were done and all maintenance was on time, like coils, plugs, oil changes, differential fluid, tranny fluid...then go from there

Low Fly'n 8

No offense dozer, but I have to disagree. My 04 has been maintained meticulously and always ran perfect. At 68,000 miles it started stalling at stop lights once in a while. The fix... new (remaufactured) motor. Thank God for the 100,000 mile warranty extension. I recieved the letter from Mazda while my car was at the dealer waiting for the motor to arrive. We were "discussing" who would be paying the bill up to that point.

Spinning Sushi

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It's like a hit or miss with these cars, some motors will last forever, others will die prematurely.

04RX8man

well 04 motors are all scheduled to die and need remans on feb. 18th 2010...I already have my appointment set for my reman...

I8U

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Haha!

szym0n

mines an 04 and I got 63K miles and it runs very smooth.

dondo

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mines 65k on an 04 and runs great as well

SleepeR1st

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04' just passed 20k miles. I drive the **** out of mine to prevent engine failure.

rodjonathan

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mines 04 about to hit 90k runs like a dream (knock on wood)

vallea1

thanks for all the coments

bulletproof21

04 with 67k miles here and had zero problems except for changing coils once.

04RX8man

^having to change coils was a problem?

bulletproof21

well no not really, could be considered normal maintenance to some but I was have a noticable loss of power down low and slow starts. I changed and coils and problems solved

Smoknjim

I have 108K on my '04 and have had no major problems. Just normal wear and tear. I have never babied it or abused it. Just drive it like a sports car.

Razz1

Plenty of people have over 100k miles and even stock coils.

swoope

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https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...hlight=lambert

here you go.

i saw him at a meet several month ago. he had over 166k miles on the original engine. he had the front seal replaced. that is it.

beers

Burton

Im an 04 with 134,000 miles... No joke nor mistype, no premix either. Change the oil and leave the rest to luck

04RX8man

^damn my 04 just rolled 50k on my trip to tennessee last weekend!.....I guess i better get out there and drive!

geaves

a 16 year old girl in a big SUV plowed into me and totaled my Lightning Yellow 8.

I bought it new and maintained it well, always using Castrol 5w20, never any did a premix.

Yellow was the only color I really wanted for the 8. I did a search and found 3 in a 500 mile radius of Chicago and finally decided on a low mileage 2004, in Yellow.

Now I'm back with only 34,000 miles on the odometer, looking forward to many more troublefree miles.

Gary Eaves

shazy

damn that really does suck for you!