Hello everyone,
I come from Essex and one of my freinds is seriously looking into getting a mazda rx7 type r now being a twin rotary engine it is quite a specialist car and servicing could be a problem.
Would anyone know of anywhere in the south east that deals with RX7's?

www.neweraimports.com
Amongst owners and potential buyers, considered the best.
They are in Canterbury, and have a buyer in Japan who owns one, its who ive gotten mine through after a lot of research.

Yup,

MOst Mazda dealerships will happily work on one.... There is a garage in Southend who will service them (they import them as well). It is the Seat / Subaru dealership on London Road (cant remember name.

Hope this helps
Chris

right thanks alot guys;)
i'll tell my mate.

There are also two other sources of information that he can use.

WWW.MazdaRotaryClub.com and a Yahoo group called FDUKBuyers.

Dan

outside reading is roteknics rotary sepcialists, on autorader there is a yellow rx7 for about 12k, the bloke has recipts for 30k!!!!
Expensive to run though..

Untill you get into engine work I don't see why an ordinary garage would have problems, my mate has one... he used to race one and I've never struggled with anything on it!

Ordinary jobs/servicing is just like any other car, I think I'd struggle to rebuild an engine but then I've never worked inside a wankel.

Good luck, they're a cracking car:)

Petey,

my rx7 is up for sale, in silver 0 - 60mph in about 5.1 secs!! a serious little bit of kit

mail me

Just remember that the 13B rotary engine in all Twin Turbo RX7's will need a full rebuild at about 60K miles at a cost of about 2K!! I have owned 2, they are great fun, very quick and very costly to run!

Dom.

ADL, the yellow RX7 has since been bought.

Dan

yeah danny,
we my mate and i did see the yellow one! looked nuttey!!
Think it had a vielside kit on it..
Apparently my mate seems to think his insurance almost doubles when they hear of a full bodykit, shame coz they look gooood..

bazil,
Told my mate about your RX7 apparently he wants one in black, he's a picky git!!!;)
Cheers n e way tho

thanks pete for posting this. i'm near giving up on the rx7 now. its too much touble and money although i'll still love to get one. i keen on that scooby type r now. still looking for a insurance quote lower than £2800 though

i think thats probably a good move mate;)

petey,

tell him just to get mine resprayed :)

infact, i could get it done for him, whole car in black!!

mine is a Type R Efini model, mail me if u want pics etc

Whoops, just reread post, newera supply, not service.
Ive had RX Motors in Dorset recommended to me for rebuilds/servicing, though a few others turn up to when searching on then net.

Good source of info is a yahoo group called fdukbuyers, deals with all these sorts of questions.


[Edited by SideShowBob - 2/3/2003 1:47:47 PM]

Mark, it doesnt need to be all hit and miss with RX7's.
Newera are very reputable, and can source one to your exact spec/price range, and provide a years warrenty, including seals etc.
Okay, they are very heavy on petrol, but other than that, a good one shouldnt be too much headache.
A rebuild at 60-70k miles at £2k is quite a bit, but it means a reliable engine for anout 60-70k miles, so not too bad value really.

Dont give up on them yet, look a lot better than scoobs, and are about ten times as rare.
Type-R is nice though, but IMHO, dont look that special, getting into an RX7 feels special (only done it once thou :( ), it feels like a proper supercar.

[Edited by SideShowBob - 2/5/2003 1:26:25 PM]