Miata Mailing List: June 1993, Message #132
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   From: garvin@cfd.mae.ncsu.edu (Michael Garvin)
Subject: Re: battery (and now relays, too)
   Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 15:42:37 -0400


I just went through this with my 3.5 year old Miata.  I called Honey
Mazda just to see if it would cost less than dealing with the local Mazda
dealer (who are tremendous jerks), and they told me that the additional charges
incurred for the hazardous materials handling shipping it would most likely
offset the savings.  I wound up getting it from the dealer for $133.  As I
understand it no one else makes a replacement yet.

For the record Honey Mazda was really nice.  The relays I needed (for
the lights and auxilliary fan) list for $17.99, the local dealer wanted $21,
and Honey let me have them for $13.50.  Regarding said relays, has anyone had
them start failing?  Last week the battery went dead, and after putting the
new one in the fan came on instantly and the relay got hot.  I've had the one
for the lights fuse solid at one point (when I jumped it wrong - oops!), so I
_think_ that's my problem.  At least, it hasn't happened again and I can't
trace any other faults...

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