just wondering if everyone elses rx7 seem to have a mind of its own..i know this morning my car tried to play dead for a minute ..and the water pump leaks sometimes and then it doesnt leak sometimes..and idles weird as **** too specially after i take it to redline once or twice

 

The Vert is just a bitch all around. Sometimes the trunk latches shut, other times it doesn't, it tries to idle at 1500 but then falls to 1200. Sometimes the headlight clothes all the way, other times one sticks up up half an inch, and it drives me ******* bananas.

 

.. yeah it hasnt started to drive me nuts yet but im sure it will soon

 

Mine was hauled out of some guy's front yard after it had sat for several two or three years. I paid $250 for it.
Change of oil and coolant and a charged battery and it fired right up and has been almost a perfect daily driver for me...
A little too perfect...

I take mass transit to work, so I never get a full charge on the battery just driving it to the bus terminal... Even when it is cranking so slowly and I think I'll need to jump it, it fires right up.
Idles dead on perfectly at 750 RPM. 1000 when cold.

Every other RX-7 I've seen and/or owned, I've had to have a good charge on the battery to crank with sufficient speed to run it... And every RX-7 I've come upon has had a slightly lumpy idle, especially when cold...
These are things I'd expect out of a car that's had no maintenance and gone from sitting to fairly abusive driving very suddenly.

 

seems like the cheap 7's are the good ones..i paid 750 for mine and it hasnt let me down yet..actually my most reliable vehicle out of the 6 ive owned so far

 

Neither of my doors will shut all the way without me slamming it. And one of my hatch latches doesn't latch... just weird things I've noticed so far. lol

 

Mine starts... It baffles me that it runs fine.

 

Mine sometimes works the tach and i always hear a little noise near of the spare tire it drive me crazzyy :@ hahhaha and the f**ing headlights

 

Both my cars work.

 

My heater goes off when I start ripping around, and comes back on when I'm cruising/stopped? wierd.

When I'm getting on it everytime I shift all the lights on the idiot cluster come on for a sec. wierd.

My car tells me to shift at like 3000 rpm. wierd.

 

my alternator pulley squels after 3500rpm

 

It likes to mimic vintage ferrari f1 cars and thinks I'm Gilles Villeneuve on the street.

 

Odd, but possibly normal - unlocking the passenger door (with the key) doesn't unlock the drivers door, so when I let someone in the passenger side first (or dump my briefcase or gym bag in), I have to keep my key handy to unlock the driver's door.
I can see why locking the passenger lock on the inside shouldn't lock both doors (chance to lock the driver out of the vehicle with the keys in it, for example), but not too sure why it would be set up to not open both doors with the key on the passenger side; my other cars do. Just have to use the key again to lock the doors when leaving. I'm guessing the thought is someone could unlock the passenger door, use the inside lock to re-lock, and leave the driver's side unlocked.

 

my driver door dosent close unless I slamm it. People think I have anger problems. Oh well..

and my idle bounces when it wants to and eats alot of gas, always hungry fc.

 

Uh, they don't have power locks...

 

Lol ^ I was reading that aswell and was like " wait a minute! mine does the same thing " Then i realized it doesnt have power locks lmao

 

samme here

turning out to be good thread so far guys keep it up ! lol

 

Mine reminds me of a female. She completely has a mind of her own. Like after the swap she barely ever idled, and other small stuff. Washed her, gave her a nice wax, polished her shoes, and bam, idles right at 700, and runs perfectly clean now. She requires the attention, but is well worth it. Just like any trophy girl, haha.

Oh yeah, and when it's super cold (like 10 degrees or lower) she makes this whining sound right behind my gauge cluster when I get to around 27 mph and higher, only goes away once she's completely warmed up. Anybody elses do this???

 

sometimes my key or headlight buzzer sounds like the car has a dying battery

and the stupid dome light only works when I wiggle the bulb


and I seem to be the only one who can open the glovebox

 

^^^ Never heard of that, all the FCs I know have working glove boxes haha.

 

For the guys with doors that need to be slammed, the door latch mechanisms do seem to wear out over time. If I recall, there's some kind of coating that wears off or something along those lines; there are some old threads on this subject. Last I checked you could still buy new ones from Mazda but they're about $90 per side, or you could find a less worn pair from another FC which is what I did. FWIW, I think the S5 ones seem a little more durable than the S4s.

 

First time i bought the car when mate was driving it home - every now and then when he took a turn the headlights would pop up and go down. At first i didn't notice it until he asked me "did you see that?" eventually i started noticing it and we came to the conclusion that the car was haunted.

 

mine decided it really didn't like this oen girl and would blow the 80amp fuse under the hood whenever i shut the car off after going to see her. blew about three of them, it didnt work out with her and it never had the problem again.. very jealous car..

 

tyler my **** was the same way when i first bought it ...need a purple power bath good wash and coat of wax and a little tinkering with the tps and it idled like a dream

 

My fc's heater works 50 percent of the time. My speakers go out sometimes after I've rewired them 3 times already checking for bad wires, and the radio is neW ! My passenger key hole works sometimes and the hatch key hole doesn't want to budge a bit. The sunroof needs a tiny nudge to open. N least but not last most weirdest one is I have no alarm in the car and it will sometimes start honking and lights start flashing like if it does ! (Honk,honk,honk,blink,blink,) I get up in the middle of the night staring @ it cuz idk wtf its telling me to do . I think she just wants attention but to turn it off I have to pop the hood and unplug the battery lol