What have you done to your RX-8 today????

[PaulAV]

Fitted a 10 ohm resister to my 3rd brake light, thankfully this removed the abs and traction control lights (recent changes of rear light clusters with led brake lights) on another note car feels weird with the new engine mounts, I had got so use to the way the car felt with the RRP engine mounts

[GreySilver Beast]

Never knew the local exchange hire services place had an old roller

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[rotatopotato]

Dropped the R3 off for the wheel refurb and a new set of P Zeros. Booked it in to a local garage for Thursday to diagnose the AC clutch only engaging for a second or two at a time every 20-30s.

Noticed when I got in it today there was no mist/condensation buildup on the front and rear windscreens, and the car now smells fresh - amazing what difference a new pair of cabin filters and freshly cleaned interior glass can do!

Been watching a few of ChrisFix's Super Clean series on youtube - the fabric parts of the Recaros are quite heavily soiled/stained so I want to see what I can do there, and it was good to get an idea of how to give the engine bay a good clean. I may even stretch to attempting some paint correction myself as there are fair few scratches.

[Peterovicz]

Yesterday finally me, my uncle and with a huge help from Paul finally replaced that pain in ass heater core (hopefully it will work better and no more leaking) for now I have to prepare 8 for trip to Poland


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[PaulAV]

Enjoy your trip, hopefully your heater stands a chance of keeping you warm. A pleasure to help by the way.

[Peterovicz]

I’ll bring a good polish craft beer for you on a next meeting


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[RichT_Derby]

JDM Engine mounts finally turned up today

[rotatopotato]

Got the car back a day early yesterday with a gorgeous new colour and fresh set of P Zeros - after a bit of a scrub in last night the car is gripping MUCH better than before!

Really need a sunny day, and obviously photos don't quite capture it, but this Dark Copper Gloss really sparkles in the light!

Before:

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After:

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[RichT_Derby]

She looks amazing - nice one.

[rotatopotato]

I'm really starting to notice that fender gap now - I think a set of Eibach Pro-Kits will be on the horizon!

[rotatopotato]

Get some lowering springs on that bad boy! they're what I'm running - lovely and snug

[rotatopotato]

That's exactly what I was referring to, but boy that is even cheaper than where I was looking!

[HarSc]

Yup. They're decent money, almost makes no sense to buy new springs that are normal height

snap a spring? SLAM THE CARRRRRR

[rotatopotato]

Aye pretty much - I was going through the receipts I have again last night and noted it had both rear springs replaced a couple of years ago at £60 a piece.

[PaulAV]

JDM Engine mounts finally turned up today

Well I'm over in Derby on Saturday as Will has invited me over so if you want i can come to you around 2 ish and we can have a go at swapping them

[johnbb99]

I've just had a garage do the steering system reprogramme (as discussed here: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=84543&start=25 ) and they are charging £90 +vat. Does that seem like a normal commercial rate, (for what seems like a very simple proceedure) or are they taking the P***? I told them that it looked like that would fix it, and basically told them how to do it, so no diagnostics or research to speak of.

[RichT_Derby]

JDM Engine mounts finally turned up today

Well I'm over in Derby on Saturday as Will has invited me over so if you want i can come to you around 2 ish and we can have a go at swapping them

Cool - that would be good. Can you pm the meeting place please.

[rotatopotato]

I've just had a garage do the steering system reprogramme (as discussed here: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=84543&start=25 ) and they are charging £90 +vat. Does that seem like a normal commercial rate, (for what seems like a very simple proceedure) or are they taking the P***? I told them that it looked like that would fix it, and basically told them how to do it, so no diagnostics or research to speak of.

That sounds like a fairly standard basic rate from a large dealer. For reference Arnold Clark will charge £120 (incl VAT) at a minimum.

So aye you're getting ripped off, but it's a fairly standard ripoff. An obd dongle and an hour of your own time to setup forscan and do the calibration is going to be far cheaper.

[MARKTHOMASBRAND]

New Copper wheels look great

[johnbb99]

That sounds like a fairly standard basic rate from a large dealer. For reference Arnold Clark will charge £120 (incl VAT) at a minimum.

So aye you're getting ripped off, but it's a fairly standard ripoff. An obd dongle and an hour of your own time to setup forscan and do the calibration is going to be far cheaper.

Just a local garage, and maybe they had to download the software or set it up, but as the job itself seems to take only a few minutes, I was a bit surprised. Hey ho.
And thanks.

[rotatopotato]

Not the worst outcome!

[PaulAV]

They would charge a standard rate per hour or part there of (probably as minimum of half hour increments)

[johnbb99]

Picked the car up with the refurbed and resprayed rims and yes this will be the only photo taken with these clean

Need to get some new wheel nuts and centre caps now as I didn't like the look of oem ones with this colour

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[johnbb99]

Need to get some new wheel nuts and centre caps now as I didn't like the look of oem ones with this colour

I don't know what you had in mind [obvs] but would black plastic covers suit?

I recently bought some nut covers to fit 17mm nuts, off ebay, and they come with four special ones to go on the locking nut, but can't find the same for 21mm nuts. Most odd.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304237683595 ... %3A2047675

There are these, but i don't see any specially big ones for the locking nuts.


Good luck hunting, if you fancy them.

[HarSc]

I think Christine has some 21mm black nut covers on hers, not sure where she got them from though, might be worth a shout if you're looking