Miata Mailing List: August 1993, Message #80
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   From: silma!polaris!ej@uu2.psi.com (Eric Jacobs)
Subject: Re: my top got slashed!
   Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 19:35:51 -0400



>
> One other question while i'm typing. The car has started running really really
> really rough. It seems like all of a sudden one morning it got ill. The wires
> and plugs are only a few weeks old, they looked fine. I thought maybe bad
> gas, but i was down near the bottom and would have noticed something sooner.
> Seems like either the gas line or the exhaust is clogged (there's a big lack
> of power too), or one (or more) of the cylinders is dead. Any ideas?

Don't dismiss the wires just because they are only a few weeks old.  My
friend bought a brand-spanking-new Miata (just last month in fact) and one
week later it was sputtering away as if on 3 cylinders or as if the timing
had gone haywire with all they symptoms you described (the car had under 500
miles on it!).  It happened catastrophically (running from normal to barely
running at all the same day).

In the end the dealer replaced the wires (with new blue NGKs) and all
was well.  The dealer also checked the gas (since bad gas and related
damage is not covered under warranty) and the gas was fine.


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