Miata Mailing List: July 1993, Message #123
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   From: bruce@lurch.Data-IO.COM
Subject: Re: to ABS or not...
   Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 14:55:01 -0400



> my gripe is that (unless they've changed the rules lately)
> you have to get Pkg. B to get the ABS.

I just spent months shopping, and there is no such thing for sale now as
a  93 'B' with ABS, regardless of what the sales brochure says.  The
only way to get ABS is with a 'C' (where it is not common), or with a
'LE', where it is stock.  Since the 'C's with ABS are (tend to be)
loaded, if all you want is ABS, it will really cost you:

$1400	($2700 'C' minus $1300 'A')
700	the radio (tough to find ABS without this option)
800	ABS
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$3000

Considering:

-- ABS is complex enough to break once, and very expensive to fix, and
-- ABS turns a simple, do-it-yourself $40 pad job into a $200 mechanic's job

ABS might well add $3000 to the lifetime cost of the car.  Pretty heavy.
I really wanted ABS, but not for that price.  By the way, the stock
brakes are great, im my opinion.

As the car gets heavier from model year to model year (don't they
always?), perhaps ABS will become more common.

--bruce