Miata Mailing List: April 1993, Message #159
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   From: (none)
Subject: weather
   Date: (none)

FINALLY!!! It was warmer in WI than somewhere else in this country. Had fun in
Indianapolis this past weekend. Was able to drive to and fro with the top down.
I was actually happy to see bugs on the windshield! While I was away Spring
found its way to Madison. Thanks to everyone for putting up with my almost
incessant bitching!.
	Relevant topics:
About windblocks - I've been waiting to have the wind mess up my hair. Those
worried about their hair could do the crew cut thing. Seriously though, there
is a guy in the Windy City chapter that has one of the plastic panels that
slips over the seats and swears by it.
 
About the Alpine alarm - Mine falsed during a thunderstorm in Indy at 4:30am.
About a week ago, someone reached in a left me a note when the top was down and
the alarm did not go off. My local dealer (not the installing dealer) wants to
charge me labor for adjusting the alarm to work properly. Since this Alpine
dealer did not do the installation they won't honor the labor part of the
warranty. I even called Alpine and they reinforced the local dealer's opinion.
I'm glad auto dealers aren't quite that bad.
 
The Mazda dealer was replacing the exhaust pipe to cure the 3500 rpm rattle
and found that the bolts on the catalytic converter were broken. So far the
rattle is gone (unless I get *really* anal and listen very intently).
 
About my brake fluid leak - new reservior, so far no new problems. The body
shop (that the paint repair was sent to) did not clean or paint the underside
of the booster and there is overspray and the colors don't quite match. When I
picked up the car I found a spare screw sitting on the vavle cover. I looked,
but can't find the place it came from. Since I was going to Indy I didn't have
the time to leave it with the dealer to correct the problems. I've been very
patient with the dealer (giving them lots of second chances, etc), but I think
it may be time to be *real* assertive.
 
While in Indy I was able to watch some track testing. Anyone want to make a
Miata racer for Indy racing? ;-)
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