Miata Mailing List: October 1996, Message #0048
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   From: Mike Lowe 

Subject: Re: Paint Peel

   Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 17:27:41 -0500





--- On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 08:48:14 -0500 Keith Tanner  wrote:



>I may be wrong, but I understand this was the first year for a new type of

>low-fume paint, and it took them a while to get the white to stick 

properly.

>

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   Yep.  GM had horrible problems with paint leprosy (my term) several years 

ago.  Look at GM pickups from the mid to late '80s.  Not much paint left.  

The light blue paint was really bad.

   Governments have really clamped down on paint emissions.  All car 

companies had some paint problems just like they had problems with emissions 

back in the 1970s.

   I've been pretty lucky with my white '90.  There's one here in Houston 

that is in pretty bad shape.  Mine was made in April of 1990 so maybe Mazda 

made some running changes to the paint formula before my car was made.  





I will NEVER buy a first-model-year car again!!!!



Mike Lowe (mikelowe@phoenix.net)

Houston Region SCCA -- Texas A&M SCC -- Miata Club of America

White '90 Miata    CS 93

Homepage:  http://www.phoenix.net/~mikelowe

















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