Miata Mailing List: September 1995, Message #125
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   From: Byron Weston 
Subject: re: where to locate radar detector?
   Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 10:05:20 -0400

 
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  > From archive-owner Mon Sep  4 01:13:36 1995
  > From: schmegma@cris.com (PS)
  > Subject: where to locate radar detector?etc.
  > Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 01:02:47 -0400
 
  > Where do Miata experts put their radar detectors? I have had my car for a
  > couple of months, and I am perplexed/ puzzeled /befuddled. I am not talking
  > about remote mounted, 2 peice units, just a plain old Passport radar
  > detector (about the size of a credit card and 3/4 inch thick).
 
  > I have been putting it on the poor excuse for a sun-visor, but bumps cause
  > the thing to bounce and bang on the frame. This is annoying and is
  > scratching the frame. (Bumps cause the CD player to skip too - grrrr)
  >  
  > So - I could stick it to the instrument cluster, but I don't know if I could
  > bring myself to put some mega-sticky  permanent thing on the car. 
  >  
  > Any ideas? 

A number of emails recently have been posted about removing the sun visors
all together. Then the question is what to do with the holes. Perhaps you
could construct something to hold the radar detector? Since the sun visor
is screwed in, a screw mounted passport bracket would hold it rigid. 

  >  I haven't been using the detector often lately - I just keep with
  > the traffic. There's much less turbulence at 65 than 75.
  >  
  > Side notes: just waxed my car this weekend with Meguars. Nice shine. But how
  > many applications should the 16 oz. bottle be good for? Based on my usage,
  > 2.5. Did I use too little?

I use "Liquid Glass". It lives up to its name. I can lasts for 10 waxes or
more, it seems. Its appearance lives up to its name. 
 
Where's your source of Meguars products, I need something for the softtop??

  >  
  > One more question - where can I get a hard top? Winter is coming, and I plan
  > on driving the car. I read $900 is the going rate - who can I call for a
  > catalog, and does that price include a finished/painted top?

>From a dealer, its more like $1200, or so they said at 128 Mazda. They get
them with a rough coat, then paint them for yuo car. If this MA winter is
like last winter, you don't need one. But, it its like the winter before
GET ONE! BTW: do your service at the Wellsley Mazda, the Miata guy there
used to be president of the miata club. 

  >  
  > Top up vs. top down? I drive 40 miles each way to work off of 128 in Mass,
  > and I always have the top down (luckly, I have a buzz cut, or a baseball cap
  > handy). I enoy the wind and noise, and the looks of other people, checking
  > out my car but trying to not make eye-contact with me. (For some reason, I
  > notice alot of mini-vans loaded with kids and they all go hyper, giving me
  > the thumbs up, and waving.)

I get the same thing on 128. Drive down in town around the colleges, it
gets even better (But, if you see a Red '94, its my territory!:-) ). My
favorite was this spring, I just waxed my car and I was in Wellsley (sp)
with the top down sitting in a line to turn. Some young babe drove by
and yelled out "Nice Car!!" 

Byron 
Red '94