MX-5 OC Forum

 Hi Jon, pleased to see you again at donington, I look like your new car after the sun!!!!! do Mazda do lobster red? I was surprised to find spaces left in the shop when I got home and bagged some time saturday. I did both days last year and it was very tiring and by sunday lunch time and the world record attempt I was shattered ...

 Booked for saturday intermediate and open pit lane, may be following Max5 guys to Mallory for sunday.

I will be at donington watching the max5 guys, hope some are left when I get home, using smartphone may be beyond me. 

 I will be there seeing if I can find an improvement over last time.

 Booked in, looks like my summer holiday will be down south.

Fitted new discs all round, Rears were a pain getting handbrake right, fronts were easy, then had a 20 mile shakedown run in the sun, top down and gentle braking to bed everything in.

 States the same for Mk2.5, i have an original mohair roof coming up to 9 years old, and I put it down on cold days. I ignore the air temperature and feel the temperature of the roof itself, if the sun has been on it the roof absorbs the heat, or as i did on my way to blyton yesterday for a track day, drove halfway with heater on and roof up, ...

 The main purpose of the oem bars in my 2.5 is to hold the sound board and windblocker. It holds on with 4 small screws and would be no use in an accident. So you will not miss it on the commute to work.

 You could have a look at this one http://www.mx5oc.co.uk/forum/forums/t/44613.aspx instead of hello kitty go for kath kidson,

 I worked with a guy in the late 90's who bought most of his cars from in and around newcastle and sold them in south yorkshire as there was a positive price differential. It would be easy to check if this is the still the case, put different post codes in autotrader with the same car criteria and see if ...