'90 MX5, cracks around door latch

Sounds like an awesome car, I'd love to know the athestetic condition and how much you paid if you aren't offended by the question. I am a student of miata pricing and I especially like the early Silverstone cars. Wish I could help you on the body work question, sounds like bondo / primer and paint to me.

If you haven't found it already, get to miata.net and imerse yourself, you won't regret it! Also plenty of good help here but checking FAQ's at miata.net first is always a good idea.

Enjoy, Chris

Just drove it last night, the wheels are Borbet, the car is in excellent condition, my friend that had it is very particular as reflected in his house and cars. The high miles are there because he had it for 15 years and loved to drive it.

I have fixed cracks on other vehicles with the same problem, but that would involved riveting a plate over the area. I just don't want it to look like crap because the car is otherwise fine. If I let it go then the edge of the door will someday tear out around the latch.

IIRC, you said that it was purchased in 1989, and had about 142,000 miles. Sorry, but at less than 10,000 annual miles, that isn't "high miles' for the age of the car. I would suspect that most 1990s are close to 200,000 miles; I have almost 214,000. Of course that does include 1 round trip from California to Ottawa, Canada for Northern Exposure; 1 round trip to Dallas, Texas for MiataWorld; 1 round trip to Grand Junction, Colorado for a Flyin' Miata Open House, and my daily driving.

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