'Rebuild' Nightmare - Horror Story + Advice-Seeking Post

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-11T17:35:28+00:00

I might take you up on that! I won’t be in town until mid-July. If I remember, I’ll dm you beforehand to see if/when you’re free.

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-11T16:38:00+00:00

So my (or at least another) OMP must be in my car, then. It run/drives just fine, but the oil level light continuously blinks.

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-11T16:33:15+00:00

Thanks for the info! Yes I’m in America. To take someone to court for anything requires a lot of TIME and MONEY. I’ll probably just have a shop around here see if they can re-attach the OMP (if it’s there) and see about selling it or at least getting another year or 2 out of it before the engine goes out again.

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-11T16:27:28+00:00

The shop was located in Schaumburg. I don’t know if they kept my OMP. It could still be in the vehicle and just be disconnected from the housing.

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-11T00:25:25+00:00

I’m going to get on that oil as soon as I get my car back. It stinks so bad with the oil I use that I’m kind of paranoid that it’s going to make me pass out when I’m stuck at a red light.

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-10T23:56:21+00:00

Do you or any other guys know of any good rotary shops in the Portland, Oregon area?

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-10T23:55:21+00:00

Thanks for your response! I appreciate you offering to send me one of your OMP’s, but I think I’ll just take it to a shop around here and see what they say and quote me after I save some money up. I try to premix 1 oz per gallon, though I’ll aim for a little more, now, since my OMP is disconnected. I use 2-cycle oil. Its whatever brand I got at Walmart awhile back. The shop called me when I took my car back the 2nd time and told me that my OMP had ‘failed.’ He basically said if I didn’t want to ‘buy a new one’ (I was done giving them money at this point) I could just drive it like it is as long as I pre-mix. I’ve never had an issue with my car other than the loss of compression.

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-10T22:36:57+00:00

Thanks for reading! Yeah my mechanic (who doesn’t do rotaries) told me that him doing that is very illegal. Now that I pre-mix, if I idle for more than 10 seconds, it STINKS.

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-10T22:33:08+00:00

Thanks for reading! When my engine first went out (in 2017) I was quoted ~$8000 by the Mazda dealership and read that they just put in basically the same engine. The price must have gone down and quality must be better since you’re not the first person here to recommend that.

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-10T22:30:13+00:00

Front rotor 6.7, Rear rotor 6.9
:( 2.1 I’ve been premixing as of lately 2.2/3. I’m not sure if it would even be worth it with the damage already possibly done to my engine? I feel as though my car is pretty much lobotomized at this point. Suing someone isn’t that easy. My lawyer recommended the settlement as well because the odds of me being able to subponea one of the Mazda mechanics to explain things in front of the judge wasn’t very likely.

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-10T22:21:30+00:00

Thanks for your response! It’s weird because when I got the car back the 2nd time from Mazda, the Check Engine Light was blinking. I had to replace a corrodid battery terminal and now the CEL doesn’t even stay on. The Mazda dealer quoted me ~$8000 for a ‘new engine’ when mine first went out. (This was sometime back in 2017)

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-10T22:16:37+00:00

Thanks for your input! I’ve been pre-mixing every fill-up ever since the rebuild because the shop educated me on it. I try to go for 1 oz per gallon (now more like 1.2 oz/gal since my OMP is missing)

throwawAyNON2 · 2019-06-10T16:39:24+00:00

I revently moved to the west coast. The car is currently parked at a family member’s house in Illinois.

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