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Mr BMW hasn't phoned yet. Bah.

But it has 6 cylinders, which makes up for the pathetic torque figure. And its old, so doesn't count.

Not interested in the Soarer or Chaser, rex's interest me but draw far too much attention to themselves. I just have an itch for another BM, E30, E36 or maybe even a 46. Will see what's about. I'm tempted by a 320d E46 coupe too.

No thanks, I couldn't live with any less than 200lbft as a daily driver and have no interest in paying £1200 to insure a Skyline or Supra. E30 is looking good at the moment, I just hope it is more solid than the last one I looked at.

Me too.

I have had a boredom itch. Going to look at it in the morning. Otherwise I think I might get another E36, but a 328 this time.

Brakes, clutch bleeding and MOT... Sad really.

That's because I spend it on stupid shit haha.

I do complain a lot to be fair. I don't live in shitsville, but there are lots of unscrupulous characters about. OP's gotta be loving this, in short though the general consensus is that he needs to man up.

I can, I removed the old ones and refitted new ones. Just waiting on the upstairs window frames being sorted, currently they are very much "internally exposed" you could say.

Who was that lad on here we all took the piss out of for starting webuyanybike and is now a millionaire? Didn't he crash a Bentley into a hotel in London?

Car sales is a funny thing, you can earn as much as you want. It's all down to experience and confidence, believe it or not I am a great people person and I am very tolerant and personable. I can sell cars where others can't by getting people on my side. Last year I earned 21, this year I am more confident, more experienced and have learnt how to keep money in the deal and will just hit 30 and the end of the month. In December and January I took home minimum wage, in April I will take home over £4000. Swings and roundabouts rather than a steady flow of income. Most people can't cope with it, or the stress of the job. Which is why most salesmen are total c**ts.

I hate my house, it's in a shit area and currently has no front windows. I actually have a lower than minimum wage job with a £6000 salary which I top up with mega stress and hard work to bring in commission. My girlfriend hates me. I haven't seen my family in years. I moved out far too young. My car is never quick enough and always broken, and basically I am dieing inside. There's my life on a plate lads. I would be picking up on it just like you are, I live for this stuff. *my phone doesn't send in sentences, even though when I post it then edit it it's fine? How weird.

Not saying my life and car is better than anybody else, you can take what I said whichever way you want; but I am not going to be told by somebody in a sarcastic fashion that I "sure turned out alright!" When quite clearly I did. I see JD reading this thread, and I know he will be lolling. *In my experience people who earn "decent" money don't think it is decent and talk about it all the time, and people with loads of money who have done their earning never talk about it.

A three bedroom house at the age of 21, a 30k job and a nice car. I guess life isn't bad.

He turned me from a wimpy little shit that moaned about everything into a thick skinned mofo who hasn't taken offense to anything in over four years. My old boss was and still is a very good friend of mine. He's one of the kindest and most charitable people I have ever met. He wouldn't have treated me the way he did if it wasn't for my own good.

When I was a kid this was called character building...Man up and take it. Getting a bit of lip off your senior is nothing, within the first 6 months of my first job in the motor trade my boss had put a fork lift through my car, set fire to my laptop and eaten 6 months worth of my packed lunches.

I have done some new stuff. Powerflex bushed lower arms and a powerflex'd rear dogbone mount. I did a turbo to manifold gasket the other day. And I cleaned the throttle body. I adjusted the actuator out last night so it doesn't close as quickly and it has helped my part throttle issues out. The new bushes feel good, and all of the annoying whines and creaks have gone.

The largest concern in my life at the moment is if I should have wholemeal pitta breads and sweet chili dip or knock up a emmental and mushroom toastie :/

Bird shit down your manifold?

I don't think it ever will be ready for a mass produced road car to be fair, Mazda have all but given up on it If I could justify the running costs I would have an RX8 over the A3. But I can't so I don't... Quite often you see them on ebay as "broken" due to misfires rather than compression issues, because most people won't pay £700 for a pair of coil packs and spark plugs. They take them into garages and the monkey just says "It's a Rotary. New engine." In terms of cost the maintenance side of things it is no different do doing a cambelt every 60k, or head gasket every 100k etc. Internally the engine is under much less strain and should in theory be subject to no more wear than a reciprocating piston engine. Issues come (and I know you will say it isn't the point) when people use synthetic oils which leave a film within the engine; not many people know that a Renesis has a second oil tank which injects used oil into the engine to act as a lubricant. Service intervals should be every 3/4k because when you do an oil change half the oil stays in the tank and is used over time; so the oil only gets fully replaced after two cycles of roughly 4000 miles. The design is obviously likened to blowing on a pin wheel, and because everything is moving in the same direction theoretically it is under less strain than a piston engine. Premature wear comes from incorrect use and poor lubrication. In terms of "engine failure" I really do think a lack of understanding is to blame. Everything else is just electrical, coil packs, sensors etc. Bore-a-thon.

None of the above would stop me buying one though,they really are very special cars. The handling is superb and they have a great road presence and feel when done right. I have driven a lot of RX8's and have been impressed by all of them. And when they look like this - www.thesupercars.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Mazda-RX-8.jpg It's easy to see why people that 'get' RX8's and the sacrifices you make to own them are so enthusiastic about their cars.

Based on me being a Mazda salesman and having to find out the truth about them to be able to answer the countless retards who say "ere wouldn't ave a Mazda theyz well unreliable" on a daily basis. That information came straight from Mazda in a service bulletin, the Rensis and 13B rotary engine is basically race car technology put into a road car. They can't be driven like a 4 cylinder car, you know how most cars have a sweet spot where the car is really happy to cruise along at that RPM? Most cars it is around the 3000rpm mark. On Renesis engines that cross over is almost double; at roughly 6k where there torque and power figures over lap. If you run them around slowly trying to conserve fuel the rotor tips contaminate and wear much quicker, as well as higher internal pressures associated with high RPM keeping everything inside tight and well lubricated. Mazda made the Renesis engine rev to 9K because it can and it wants to, driving it around below 3k pinching the pennies isn't what it was designed to do.

1.8t Ten a penny, great on fuel, easily tuned for peanuts and with a simple bell housing conversion easily made RWD. Dull as dish water though. Rotary engines are great if you thrash them, I have seen totally original engines with 140k that drive spot on. They NEED driving, pootling about below 5k to conserve fuel just annihilates them.

Don't do lifts, but I can inverted bench 100kg. Do you even lift? I really want to do something with my Ford, it's just sat at home slowly dieing. My dad drives it all the time, but I want to do something more.