Miata Mailing List: December 1995, Message #163
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   From: RMrph@aol.com
Subject: Re: Broken cowl piece
   Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 03:02:07 -0500

In a message dated 95-12-03 15:43:33 EST, dekker@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
(Richard Dekker) writes:

> It leads one to believe 
>that it's water getting in under the rubber gasket and freezing that is 
>causing the passenger side end of the cowl to break.


I can just about guarantee that this is not the case with my car.  Although
we bought it second-hand (maybe that's a good name for a red car: second hand
rose) and I can't swear that it has never seen snow prior to my taking over
its stewardship, it has been a southern California car and not likely to have
spent much time in snow country.  So long as I have had it (about 3 years),
it has never seen any of the following: snow, ice, freezing temperatures or
many consecutive nights outside of a garage (it went on a few roadtrips where
it had to be parked outside, but only in the summertime and otherwise lives
in an attached garage).

OTOH, it *does* get a lot of sun exposure since I park it at work and don't
use a car cover (Ee-gads!).  I'll bet UV causes the decline of plastic too.
:)

Roseanne
SoCal Red '90