Miata Mailing List: April 1993, Message #141
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Subject: Re: Oops, I folded...
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Joe Murphy writes...
> ... I put the top down without unzipping the window. Yes I am an idiot,
> but I have only had the car two months. It was only down for about 15
> minutes before I realized I had made the mistake (as we came out of the
> 7-11 with the beer). Problem was it was kind of cold so the window was a
> bit rigid when this happened. 
> 
> Anyway, there is a small kink in the window about the size of a quarter,
> right in the center. The plastic is not "white" or badly crimnped, but it
> is enough to annoy me. Anyway to soften up the plastic the fix it? Will the
> sun do this over time?

I did the same thing with mine about two weeks after I got it (early March).  
It was the first real boo-boo, and I was fairly upset with myself for making 
such a grave miata faux pas, especially when I put the top back up and 
noticed the same little kink in the center.

Luckily, the kink seems to be getting smaller and smaller as the weather
warms up and the car spends more time in the heat.  So far, there's no 
clouding or other weirdness noticeable.  

I do find that my window zipper seems to be coming unstitched a bit.  Since
my crunch-the-window incident, I've been fairly conscious of zipping the
window up before locking the top in place, etc.  Seems like I should grab my
sewing kit and nip it in the bud.  I have a feeling that taking something like
this to my dealer would just result in a lot of blank stares.  Any others
have this problem?

Russ Croman
(counting the days 'till...)
Design Engineer
Crystal Semiconductor
Austin, TX