Miata Mailing List: December 1993, Message #45
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   From: Jeff Maurer 
Subject: Re: wet brake performance degradation (again)
   Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 19:23:44 -0500

Forwarded message:
> Some early '90 models exhibited this behavior. I tell you, it was awful scary.
> For the first second or so it was like I had no brakes at all! Mazda had a  
> recall back in '91 and replaced my front pads with (what I thought was) the  
> '91-on pad material and the problem went away....

What Alan says could be true, since the problem was much worse in
my early '90 car and not as bad in my current '92.  Although I
still seem to recall some delay in the '92.  I'll have to pull the
hangar-queen out of the garage this weekend and go test it out in
the rain :-)
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