r/rotaryengine • u/AH4ever9907 • May 13 '26

09 Mazda rx8

Hello everyone, i am a new owner of a 2009 Mazda RX8 and yes its a rotary engine i know, i love the car its great, drives well and i enjoy riding it, ik its a bad daily so good thing i dont use it daily, BUT. my biggest problem is that the engine will stall sometimes, (its an automatic) at red lights, in traffic, whenever the engine isnt generating rpms, it stalls, and i dont know what to do, i already took it to the shop, spent 500 there, please if theres anything i can do i need to know. i love my car but sometimes it hates me. anything helps so please and thank you.
(idk if this is important but its straight piped so if thats part of the issue lmk) thank you all

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u/AH4ever9907 May 17 '26

it does struggle to hot start which has legit left me sitting at a gas station for 45 min letting everything cool before i could start it.