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Check for wear on older latches; if you can unclip it without pushing the button, its worn out. Early Mk1 latches have lettering on them (and really early ones have a gloss finish), later Mk1 latches are plain.
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[quote user="Gary Beale"]
[quote user="AT"]A carpet cover was added to Mk1s after 1995.[/quote]
I think it looks better WITH the carpet, I shall start my quest tonight......
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The boot carpet on late Mk1s was more grey, than the earlier cars, and a bit cheap feeling. And it wasn't really carpet, ...
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[quote user="Mazda-mender"]
Sorry but i need to be dead honest here, it's because they are cheap nasty coil overs, and nothing down to how you have fitted them, are the aduster wind right down?
M-m
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[quote user="Di-Mx"]
It is that low wheel is barely clearing arch with spring seats wound up ...
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[quote user="Gary Beale"]
[quote user="~Rob"]Fantastic job! I'm intrigued by the black bit. I have a flat metal plate there with carpet on. [/quote]
It's there to protect the fuel and breather pipe. Carpet, now that' a neat idea.................
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A carpet cover was added to Mk1s after 1995.
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Busy weekend on the S-Limited
1. Stripping down drivers door lock, finding snapped spring, deciding I didn't need it to get a functioning lock
2. Stripping down stuck passenger lock; interesting. It looks like when the car was imported in 2002, there was only one key. Over the years, the key has worn. So, on the passenger door, some of the ...
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The front chassis legs, the bits that are rotting, are light grey. The front cross member is galvanized, dark grey.
Earlier in the thread, Scottishfiver posted what the replacement part from Mazda looks like:
Which according to the MX5 diagram, consists of parts that in the factory were galvanized and "organic resin ...
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If you got these from Midland Sports and Classics (MG Parts), contact Robert Westwood rw@mgpartsuk.com
He proved to be very helpful to me. My calipers now work well.
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[quote user="rogerzilla"]
According to Bob Hall, the Mk1 used a fair bit of HSLA steel for the structural members, and most HSLA steels are quite resistant to corrosion. Not sure about later versions. There has never been, as far as I know, any galvanised bodywork a la VW/Audi/Skoda.
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Oh yes there was. Just not the ...
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[quote user="rogerzilla"]
I imagine the crushing of all those cars didn't (directly) cost Mazda a penny, since the cargo would have been insured. There's probably no insurance available for building cars which turn out to rot a few years later.
I can't imagine that galvanisation adds more than a few kg to the weight ...
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[quote user="rogerzilla"]
AT makes some good points but residuals of Mk2 MX-5s are so low at the moment, and the repair so difficult, that (if I were Mazda's MD and felt forced into doing anything) it would probably be a discount on a Mk3, or a buyback of some sort. As they say, you can only make a welded repair if there is ...
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