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Wrote a letter to my local Mazda place about this. I've had nothing but good experiences with the several Mazda vehicles I've owned (still daily-drive the rotary-engine RX8...). Seeing them engage in what appears to be dmca bullying of a project like Home Assistant feels like a betrayal.

>>JRKrau+(OP)
A daily driver RX-8 that stills drives? How? What's your mileage and oil consumption like. As quirky as the RX-8 was, I liked the car but not the engine.

>>Grazes+0v
Not OP, but I know people who mix two-stroke oil with the gas to have better reliability, but AFAIK you need to change apex seals sooner or later.

For me it's sad how such an interesting engine had so many problems.

>>Grazes+0v
Many days late on this reply but I am at 120K miles (2008 model). The engine compression is noticeably low now. Before warming up and at low RPM the car really struggles to make it up the hill out of my neighborhood. I've had 3 flooding events that were only fixed by rolling the car down that same hill 3-4 times. I have to slip the clutch a concerning amount when getting into first from a stop.

A new engine at the dealership price of $7K is still going to be cheaper than an equivalently sporty new car though!