Miata Mailing List: January 1995, Message #32
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   From: manson@fred.net
Subject: Re: Accessories
   Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 08:56:50 -0500

Herb has re-posted an article regarding body stiffness and means of 
improving such.  I had an interesting experience over the holidays that 
is worth noting.

My dad and I were out looking for railroad stations in southern PA 
between Xmas and New Year's, and as we were pulling into a parking lot in 
Gettysburg, I turned the car sharply onto a fairly steep (and short) ramp 
to the parking lot.  Halfway through the turn, a buzzer came on.  My dad 
is in the habit of jumping out of the car before I get stopped (he uses 
this method of getting me to stop when he wants to), so I thought that he 
had opened the door.  I looked over at him and he was sitting still and I 
asked if he had opened the door.  [The buzzer had stopped once we got 
into the lot.]  He said that he hadn't.  I have to assume at this point 
that the body had flexed enough to cause the door to move relative tothe 
body and release the door switch.   I am still perplexed and a little 
concerned by this, and am even more interested in stiffening the body now.

Has this ever happened to anyone here on the List before?

Tom