I was taking a picture today when I decided I was to far from the right spot and that it would be better to drive there than to walk. Turning back to the car, still with its engine running, I noticed a thick, dark black-brown, stripe over the hood all the way from the front to the windshield.
I very quickly recognized the problem: when I had added some oil some pictures back, I had probably forgotten to put the oil filler cap back. Yet no buzzer alerted me to the omission. There is a seat-belt buzzer, and a door-open buzzer, but no buzzer for the case you forget to put the oil filler cap back. I never forget my seat belt, even with its buzzer disconnected, but an easy thing to forget like the oil filler cap has no buzzer at all! (OK, sometimes I do drive away with a door still open. No problems so far.)
Anyway, it took me half a roll of paper towels to get the worst oil out of the engine bay, especially from the cam cover and plug wires. The hood is still bleeding oil stuck below its stiffeners. With Miatas having yellow stickers telling you to put children in the rear seats, you would think they could put a buzzer on the oil filler cap, not?
Leon