Miata Mailing List: August 1993, Message #54
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   From: sgrossma@lemans.stortek.com (Steve Grossman)
Subject: Re: Panels and Ants
   Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 16:23:52 -0400


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> Please, do me a favor: next time you approach your Miata, go to the
> passenger front and press firmly on the panel below the centerline of
> the tire between the passenger door and the wheel well, and then try
> the same on the driver side, and then please please write me a letter
> saying that the panel on the passenger side mashes in.

curious as hell you should mention this, as I just noticed this phenomenon
Saturday while washing the car, and I've owned and hand washed and waxed this
vehicle for 1 week short of 4 years.

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> In the process of spraying copious amounts of Raid into the wheel
> well to quell a massive ant uprising, I pressed, it gave, and I

ANTS??? In the bodywork?!?!?!?  Has the car been buried in sand, or did some
kool-aid spill in there?

> panicked. BUT, a fellow (though not friendly) Miata owner's car
> yielded to surreptitious testing in a similar manner, so it's at
> least common to two machines.

I lived in a termite infested house once, and the sheetrock depressed in a
very similar manner where the termites had eaten the stud out from behind the
sheetrock.

I swear there are no ants nor termites inhabiting the body work of the car!


> I am not a number; I am a free man.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!


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Steve