Miata Mailing List: July 1995, Message #15
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   From: Jim Dobbins 
Subject: Battery Died At 5+ Years
   Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 17:01:53 -0400

Well, it finally happened. The battery in our red '90
gave up the ghost a week ago. We got this car used in
August of 1990. The original owners purchased it in 
January, 1990 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The car now
has ~62k miles and other than routine maintenance the
only non-routine replacement parts have been ignition 
wire sets which seem to degrade at about 20k miles.
Oh, the tonneau cover is starting to get a bit
hosed with the tennax fasteners losing their innards and
the plastic piece that fastens around the rear part of the 
driver/passenger opeining getting brittle.
>From my experience and what I see on this mail list Miata's
seem to be very durable. 
But, most importantly; what a fun car!
-Jim