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>buy used car
>71k miles
>no issues, handles like a fucking dream
>get for $5500
>3 weeks later electric power steering rack fails.
>$2400 fix if new part
>mechanic finds re-manufactured one for $1200
>find one online for $600
>Could have saved labour if I was home
Please hold me and tell me it'll be okay.
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>>17088176
What car anon?
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power steering isn't a necessity :)
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>>17088211
04 rx8, wanted one since I was 10
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>>17088220
I know, I can still easily turn it, just the sound i cancer to my ears, and don't want it to cause any more issues
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>>17088220
This.
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>>17088221
>>17088237
you should just kill yourself now
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>>17088221
Could have bought my brothers for 3k, weeb stickers pre installed
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>>17088176
>>17088221
I always get pissed about how much I've lost on cars but then I read shit like this and feel a little better
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>>17088316
I have the funds and everything, just wanted to have that set aside to restore an old mustang
>>17088275
Tried twice, no dice. "Trying is effort and I'll stop when I'm dead." ~Jerry Smith
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>>17088221
>>17088176
>04 RX8
>71K miles
Power steering is going to be the LEAST of your problems, buddy. Two words; Apex Seals.
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>>17088221
>RX8
Please tell me you at least asked the owner about the car's maintenance history and/or how he treated/drove the car
Because you might have some apex seal problems in the future
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>>17088457
>>17088421
know all about the apex,
bought from old man in his 80s, kept it well.
Did research, took a junkyard engine apart once, I can replace the seals myself.
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>>17088221
I'm actually planning on buying one myself at the end of the summer so have a free bump
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>>17088478
You can't just replace the seals in a renesis engine, one they apex seals go they take the housings with them.
Any damage done to the chrome surface of the housing ruins it and they are not repairable.
You'd spend over 3k rebuilding it.
>bought from old man in his 80s, kept it well.
Thats not a good sign, an 80yr old man would have never redlined the car even once.
He probably babied the fuck of it never shifting over 3k rpm.
Which is bad for rotary engines, they need to driven hard to clear the carbon from the housings and secondary port actuators to prevent them from becoming carbon locked and failing.
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>not doing your own work
>owning an rx8
I hope you're rich anon. Mechanics like emptying wallets.
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>>17089269
I can do most work myself. Just this one bc no tools at school
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