Miata Mailing List: May 1995, Message #89
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   From: "Phydeaux's PC" 
Subject: Re: Miata Finish
   Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 00:35:51 -0400

At 01:25 PM 4/28/95 -0400, a.claysonii@genie.geis.com wrote:
>Last June I bought the beautiful Montego Blue Special Edition '94
>Miata.The car is a gem except for the finish. At this point, not a
>year later (11,000 miles), the finish looks like what you might
>see inside a planetarium depicting a beautiful meteor shower. The
>dark finish is loaded with fine white lines (the primer). I've
>been driving for 40 some years, don't normally follow sand trucks,
>don't drive the Miata in snow or on salt covered roads, etc (tho'
>I do live in VT) and have never seen anything like this.
>I've read in Miata magazine that the finish on the car isn't the
>most durable, but this is ridiculous. Any similar problems or was
>this one not finished properly?

I have two small scratches on my '94 "M" ... I too am amazed at how thin
the paint is.  It seems that anything that is hard enough to scratch 
manages to do scratch down to the primer.  This is the one aspect of
the car that I am decidedly VERY UNHAPPY with.

                                                        reb