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Originally Posted by LeeH
Yeah... Mazda said they needed a mechanic to keep my car, as in use it as his personal vehicle, for a couple of days to check out an intermittent radio issue. First thing I noticed when I got it back was that the rear arm rest was down. Hmm. Then the very next time I took it on the highway and touched the brakes my steering wheel had a shimmy despite low miles and lots of pad left. Figure the guy must have tested out my ABS a few times, which would explain the rear armrest being down. I didn't bother going to the dealer. Figured it would go nowhere... no real evidence.
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When I had my 87 RX7 I took it to a father / son indy shop to get an alignment. I had my specs printed out on paper and left on the seat of the car. They received instructions to align to my specs.
I also told them no joy rides and no road testing, just do the alignment. I went a step further and told them it needs to be fully warmed up before turning off and again, no drives it is a twitchy car that will get away from them.
I failed to mention it is also equipped with a Motec M4 with data logging. I can download over 30 minutes of the engine history to my laptop and see what is going on. Ooops!!
I come get the car, and the son made a comment to me as I was leaving, that is a hell of a car you have there.
As I was driving 5 minutes home I made the decision to hook up my laptop and see what prompted this comment from the son.
Someone took it for a drive, a few multiple gear pulls were made except they were too much of wimps to get past 80% throttle which was a good thing.
4 pulls were made through 3 gears hitting full boost and 7K RPM's which means in 3rd gear they were going over 80 MPH on surface roads.
I never went back there, although I could have. I just spoke with my wallet, I never took any of my cars to their shop again.
The RX7 at the time had 550 HP and weighed 2600 lbs, no ABS no TC just 3 pedals a wheel and a stick.