I'm just curious, cause I'm really considering an FD

 

I love my FD, but it does cost a lot to maintain. Since I bought it back in october, I've put a lot into it. When I first bought it, I had to pay for $1500 worth fixes on it, mainly for the suspension bushings, control arm, and stuff like that. The turbos leaked a little oil (just the gaskets, cheep fix). I installed an exhaust system, intake, boost controller, underdrive pulley kit, and an APEXi Power FC. The FC wasn't tuned right and blew my engine with only 35k miles. I need to come up with $3000 to get it replaced, but it will have over 400 HP when back together. I love it though. I've never driven a car that felt so right. Everything is right where it should be. It rides very nice and has tons of power. I'm never going to sell it.

 

I can't straighten out my maintaince from my upgrades!

 

Well there is the recomended interval maintenance which has to be kept up to date. I hev no idea that stuff is because i do it all myself. But that is normal for any car, just that on the rx7 you HAVE TO DO IT.

for the last year I replace the follwing defective items.

water thermosensor... 50$ or so

Other than that everyting else was either mods or regular maintenace suchs as fuel filtres, bleeding brakes, flush coolant, plugs, wires, and so on.

How much did I spend last year on my FD?? about 10k

 

Maintenance last year

One stop for $1200 - New plugs, and all new gaskets in the turbo, battery, and some other stuff, antenna and head lamp bulbs ect.

Another stop for $915 - plugs and wires, vacuum hoes, some new sensors, filters, coolant flush, break pads, and a few other minor fixes.

add another 50 bucks for oil changes every 2.5k.

I'm still running zero performance mods and the car is my daily driver. So far very reliable at 80k miles.

 

As some of you may know, I'm seriously considering buying an FD, but as of late, I've been having doubts about how much this "high-maintenance hottie" is gonna cost me per year...plus insurance for gosh sakes! YIKES

 

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What are you guys doing?

I've spent probably $2000 in mods for my car since I got it in November. I bought a DP, MP, intake, exhaust, Pettit ECU, and SSR Integrals. Tack on another $400 b/c I just decided to pay someone to do my hoses instead of watching my fingers bleed. And another $150 for new guages and a pod. BUy parts used whenever possible. A used ecu is risky though so make sure you know the seller is legit.

Maintenance: $7 for six quarts of Castrol GTX and another $6 for a Mazda OEM filter every 2K miles

another $15 for coolant flush and new antifreeze once a year.

another $20 for new rubber hoses for the next 20-30K miles

$15 for new hose clamps to replace stock ones

$75 for a new fuel filter which I haven't done yet.

$50 for new spark plug wires every few years

$40 for new platinum plugs once a year

$2 for 8oz bottle of AMSOIL 2-stroke oil which lasts two full tanks of gas. I use about half a tank a week

Premium gas (this is where it adds up)

As long as you can do most work yourself or have a friend to help you, you can get by with basic maintenance minus engine rebuild.

 

I think it is better to think in percentages.

For example: 20% of my income goes into maintenance. The other 80% goes into mods.

M

 

about $2,000 last year for maintenance, repairs, and i only drove ~1,500 miles last year too!!!! WTF

 

So true... I don't even want to think about the amount of $$ I have spent on my FD in maintnance in the last 2 years or so.