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- Subject: Re: got me a '90 miata - should i expect any problems?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.220316.24370@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>
- From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 22:03:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.220625.2852@lgc.com>
- Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1992Nov10.220625.2852@lgc.com> commike@lgc.com (Alan Commike) writes:
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- >Is there anything that can be used to clean the rear window on the
- >soft-top. The plastic is foggy and has some scratches in it. I wish Mazda
- >had put in a glass window!
-
- On most convertibles with plastic windows the trick is in _carefully_ folding
- the top down without creasing or folding the screen. It may explain how to
- to this in your owners handbook. On the old British sportscars you have to
- pull the canvas over the front rail of the top. Most people just flip the
- thing back, which folds the screen in two.
-
- If it's any help I can e-mail you the official description from my Jensen
- Healey handbook.
-
- Someone posted recently that you can retrofit glass windows into most
- soft tops.
-
- >So far the car is great. I wanted a '93 RX-7, but i can't put down that
- >much cash for a car. So instead a got a little roadster, not fast but pretty
- >fun. I've never owned a "real" car (no flames, i've read enough in the
- >"only real men [and women] drive stick). In another week or so i should be
- >able to stop worrying about the mechanics of driving, and start driving.
-
- Of course it's a 'real' car - that has nothing to do with the type of gearbox
- - more to do with the lack of roof!
-
- Mind you, it would be interesting if you let us know how hard you find the
- auto-manual transition, give us a blow by account.... (don't do it if
- you're faint of heart 'though).
-
- Have fun and don't get put off when winter comes. Although I don't suppose
- it gets that cold in Texas.
-
-
- --
- Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz -- Fujitsu New Zealand --
- Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
- consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.
- "If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
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