So I was just cruising along the freeway today at about 70mph when all of the sudden, a very loud buzzer goes off in my car. I look at the warning lights and nothing is on. I look at my oil pressure and temperature gauges, they seem normal. The pressure was between 30 and 60 and the temperature was right at the midway point. So I pulled off, cut the ignition and got out. Immediately I saw smoke rising from the entire car. The wheel wells, the hood, etc. I looked underneath the car and found a huge spill of oil. The smoke was probably due to the oil getting EVERYWHERE on the car.

My question is: Do you guys know what happened to the car? It is a 1989 Turbo II with 123k on the stock motor. Thanks a bunch.

Also, if anyone is in the bay area, do you know of any shops that I should take the car to? Rotary extreme is not taking anymore cars, AND they want 6000 dollars for an engine rebuild. I called Mr. Mazda and they can't take the car until wednesday. If anyone could help me out, that'd be great.

 

Try Rick's Rotary performance in pleasanton.
925-484-2324
Good luck.

 

Ahh, thanks a lot. I actually had it taken to rotorsport, but thanks a lot anyway. I appreciate the help.

 

Cool, hope you get it back on the road soon.

 

oooo...man uncool...hopefully the oil line to the turbo dident bust...that or a oil cooler line..good luck just the same...

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Rotorsport just called. They said that they fixed it and that it was running fine. However, I do need a few things befitting a car of its age/mileage.

Drive belts will need to be replaced soon, brake fluid has a minor leak, shocks need to be done soon, exhaust has a leak as well. Time to spend more money!

 

or you can do it yourself and save a **** load..haha thats what i do..wayy better..

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That is a typical "would you like to supersize those fries, Sir?" All they are doing is upselling you for more work. If your Bakes are leaking...have you ever had to top off the res? Shocks?? Whose car does not need NEW shocks? Exhaust leak? A real Muffler shop will weld it closed or rplace a gasket in about 10 mintues and charge you a $20....but it has to be a real Muffler shop not a Midas. A good muffler man is hard to find.

 

haha don't worry, I don't intend on going back to the shop anyway. A huge part of my reasoning for getting this fc was to do all of the work myself. Unfortunately, due to the somewhat emergency oriented nature of this problem, I needed it fixed as soon as possible. I'm had this car for three weeks, I've driven it 600 miles, cut me a bit of slack. :p

He can try to upsell all he wants, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm going to be doing most, if not all of the work myself.

 

anyone recommend or know any rotory tune up shops in or around SF?