Miata Mailing List: June 1993, Message #87
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   From: Jamie Zawinski 
Subject: Re: trunk light
   Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 01:27:34 -0400


Jim Parr wrote:
>
> We bought a trunk light from MM Marketing, 1-800-666-4282.  With a mercury
> switch, and its own fuse and fuseholder in the power wire.
> The instructions seemed quite simple,

"seemed" being the operative word here!

> but there seemed to be a hole that wasn't quite where they said, so being
> mechanically challenged (as someone already put it), I took it to the
> dealer.  They installed it, and it works just fine.  It probably wouldn't
> take much to be a little bit cleverer than I and do the installation
> oneself.  Good luck.

I have the same thing, and it works fine now, but be careful, the mounting
instructions truly suck.  I would have done much better if I had realized from
the start that I should just ignore their badly xeroxed illustrations from the
start.

The best part is that one section said "attach it with the provided screw to
the existing hole.  But if the hole is too big, drill a new one next to it."
The hole in question is in the stamped sheet metal of the inside of the trunk.
Why do I find it hard to believe that there's *any* variation in the size of
this hole, and that they knew it wasn't going to fit?

Anyway, while doing this I managed to apply a little too much pressure to my
drill, and slightly dinged the trunk from the inside.  Joy.  And then a few
days after I had installed it, it worked itself loose, and would dangle in
such a way that it was turned on even when the trunk was closed.  So then I
attached it with some double-sided super-sticky foam, and it has held for
almost a year now.

-- Jamie