Miata Mailing List: April 1995, Message #42
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   From: gt0648b@prism.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Shipping your baby
   Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 17:02:00 -0400

As I understand it, the tiedowns are intended to prevent the car from
sliding into other cars while on the ship (assuming the main attachment on
the tires breaks loose).  In other words, Mazda would rather have the
bumpers messed up on one car than have the bodywork trashed on several.
They really should be removewd by the dealer, to prevent their misuse, but
I guess that makes too much sense (A/C is dealer installed, right?)
Josh

> secured using these points, when they come across on the boat.  Why is it no
> longer good form to use these points to tie the car down, when it gets to
> the USA?  (I can understand the business about towing the car using these
> points, but that's different.)
>                                                 --jack M. & KANSEI--
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