View Poll Results: What part is broken most often??
Radio surround
137
26.97%
Electric antenna
206
40.55%
Idiot light surround
104
20.47%
Sun visors
28
5.51%
Sun roof
96
18.90%
Torn upolstry (yea i cant spell today)
106
20.87%
Door handle/s
89
17.52%
Center console
71
13.98%
Radio grilles
41
8.07%
other misc interior stuff
133
26.18%
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Used 2nd gens, what part broken most often?
Used 2nd gens, what part broken most often?
this is a poll for what is broken most often on used 2nd gens
here is my list,
on all 3 of the 2nd gens ive owned they have all had this broken:
all 3 had: 1 broken door handle, broken radio surround, broken radio antenna, broken console, missing demister grilles, idiot light surround, sun visors gone or broken.
what about you guys??
here is my list,
on all 3 of the 2nd gens ive owned they have all had this broken:
all 3 had: 1 broken door handle, broken radio surround, broken radio antenna, broken console, missing demister grilles, idiot light surround, sun visors gone or broken.
what about you guys??
knowledge junkie
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 5,595
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From: Atlanta, GA
Most of that stuff is what happens when you let your car bake in the summer heat. I'd invest in an rx7 carpet dash cover from Victoria british, a tint job, etc..
I'd say the #1 thing is the engine wiring harness managers (no big woop), paint above the exhaust pipe, hatch struts, power window linkage, etc..
I'd say the #1 thing is the engine wiring harness managers (no big woop), paint above the exhaust pipe, hatch struts, power window linkage, etc..
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Full Member
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 171
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From: Vancouver / Brandon
I think you guys are also missing a few more... my I have the one rx7 and between me and my friends we have had 10 rx7's.... And i think in every single one of them...
not one... had
a Working Horn
or
A Working Clock
we had to resolder that stuff...
not one... had
a Working Horn
or
A Working Clock
we had to resolder that stuff...
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 675
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From: USA
1.the screw copming out of the blinker lever.
2.wiper switch
3. passeger motor mount
4.wiper switch
5. map senser ground
6. horn
7.clock
8.sunruff
9.diff mount <---------god I have done that one to many times
10.logicon
11.shifter bushings
12.TPS <---------god I have done that one to many times
13.viser plastic pieces
BUT I still love them
2.wiper switch
3. passeger motor mount
4.wiper switch
5. map senser ground
6. horn
7.clock
8.sunruff
9.diff mount <---------god I have done that one to many times
10.logicon
11.shifter bushings
12.TPS <---------god I have done that one to many times
13.viser plastic pieces
BUT I still love them
Seduced by the DARK SIDE
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 7,323
Likes: 2
From: Orange Park FL (near Jax)
All the switch mount posts on the inside of the dash cluster.
This kind of thing is normal for >10 year old cars.
By the way, I have a great fix – Bondo Marine Epoxy Putty Stick. You knead a small snake, wrap it around the post to beef it up. A whole new post tip can be formed with a short piece of tube (cut from a radio antenna) filled with epoxy putty. You mold the hole with a nail while it’s still soft.
You can reinforce any interior plastic with this stuff. Just mold a patch on the back side. If it breaks off later, rebond it with super glue..
This kind of thing is normal for >10 year old cars.
By the way, I have a great fix – Bondo Marine Epoxy Putty Stick. You knead a small snake, wrap it around the post to beef it up. A whole new post tip can be formed with a short piece of tube (cut from a radio antenna) filled with epoxy putty. You mold the hole with a nail while it’s still soft.
You can reinforce any interior plastic with this stuff. Just mold a patch on the back side. If it breaks off later, rebond it with super glue..
Greek Power
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 2,375
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From: Greece
Wowow, a thread from the grave, but it sure made me look back and realize how much I've replaced/spent on my Rex (in no particular order):
Power antennae
Clutch
Brakes
Door handles
Thermostat housing
Almost all rubber hoses in engine bay (kinda expected, but...)
Thermostat, O2 sensor, various caps and sensors
and I will need new oil lines and new rotors (just the rear ones, but I'll change them all with slotted anyway)
...and I still havent had the time to fix the wiper switch
Everything works fine now, hope it stays that way for a couple of months
Power antennae
Clutch
Brakes
Door handles
Thermostat housing
Almost all rubber hoses in engine bay (kinda expected, but...)
Thermostat, O2 sensor, various caps and sensors
and I will need new oil lines and new rotors (just the rear ones, but I'll change them all with slotted anyway)
...and I still havent had the time to fix the wiper switch
Everything works fine now, hope it stays that way for a couple of months
HAILERS
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 20,563
Likes: 27
From: FORT WORTH, TEXAS,USA
1. Wiper switch (or its internal relays actually)
2. Logicon
3. Clock/idiot light assy (cold solder joints)
4. CPU (controls horn, idiot lights etc) cold solder joints.
5, The circuitry in the heater/air conditoning mtr housing(causes low fan speed).
6. The differentials front mount (only a gun pointed to my head will get me to jack my car using this point).
7. The a/c relay located in front of the radiator.
8. Acv on turbos (the switching diaphram gets cooked making it non-funcitonal. N/a's last forever).
9. Turbo's sliding roof (learned early not to open it fully and how to press down on it to make it shut).
10. Shifter bushings. The turbo's shifter was a guessing game until I put two conical bushings out of two spare transmissions in it. Used two top conical bushings salvage from the spare transmissions. Shifts like a champ now. (gonna buy the real bushings....soon).
But kudos to the ECU and the pop-up head lights that have never given any sign of trouble, never ever.
2. Logicon
3. Clock/idiot light assy (cold solder joints)
4. CPU (controls horn, idiot lights etc) cold solder joints.
5, The circuitry in the heater/air conditoning mtr housing(causes low fan speed).
6. The differentials front mount (only a gun pointed to my head will get me to jack my car using this point).
7. The a/c relay located in front of the radiator.
8. Acv on turbos (the switching diaphram gets cooked making it non-funcitonal. N/a's last forever).
9. Turbo's sliding roof (learned early not to open it fully and how to press down on it to make it shut).
10. Shifter bushings. The turbo's shifter was a guessing game until I put two conical bushings out of two spare transmissions in it. Used two top conical bushings salvage from the spare transmissions. Shifts like a champ now. (gonna buy the real bushings....soon).
But kudos to the ECU and the pop-up head lights that have never given any sign of trouble, never ever.
Last edited by HAILERS; May 27, 2002 at 08:18 PM.