Miata Mailing List: October 1996, Message #0043
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   From: JEANNIE_HOBBS@hp-santaclara-om3.om.hp.com

Subject: Re: Can anybody help with my wierd (SIC) radio?

   Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 16:47:19 -0500



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     Robert, many Miatas have this problem.  There is a fix in the Spring 

     (?) issue of Miata Mag, or you can look in the archives.  Sam Sharp 

     (thanks, Sam!) helped me fix Wendy's radio at Gold Rush in September, 

     and it hasn't had a problem starting in the morning since!  (Of 

     course, *I'm* sometimes another story....)

     

     Basically, you take the center console out, then take the air vents 

     out and take off the console around the radio, then take the radio 

     out, then cut and bend a paper clip to the right size and shape (think 

     staple) so the ends fit into the 5 and 11 holes in the little black 

     plug on the back of the radio, then put everything back together 

     again.  I don't know if it's the "jumping" between the pins that 

     works, or just that the clip plugs up the holes, thereby preventing 

     humidity, but I can say it works!  I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains, 

     where the banana slugs grow, so about humidity I know whereof I type.

     

     Jeannie Hobbs

     Boulder Creek, CA

     Radio lights first time, every time

     

     P.S.  It's "weird," not "wierd."  Whack!  (But not too hard--you've 

     gotta use your fingers to fix that radio.)

     

     

     











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