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MX-5 Commuter?

In the UK

Really? Here in the UK most places now either do free shipping as standard, or free shipping if you're spending more than £xxx (usually around £100, which is usually easily done on anything big and bulky).

How big a tower was that???!!! I suppose one thing that's really helped me is removing the spare tire from the trunk; I've got a can of that stuff in there instead that inflates the punctured tire and gums up the hole. I know, it supposedly makes the tire useless afterwards, but for the number of times I've had to use a spare tire in my life (never, in 18 years of driving) the trade-off for the extra trunk space is worth it. But even with the spare tire in I'm quite sure I would've got my computer in the trunk, so yours must have been unusually big.

Eric

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Eric Baber
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Now that's my favorite kind of cargo! I'd hate to think how many trips I'd have to make in my Miata to move my entire Lego collection.

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Mark

I am not going to admit to how little I paid for all of that. Well over

100 pounds of bricks, most of them specialized and sorted by type and color in containers and many in sealed packages from the factory, all adult-used and in excellent condition.

Plus endless motors, conductive bricks, 3 RCX control bricks, wiring, lights, sirens, sensors, gears, gauges, books, the camera system and so much more for the Lego Mindstorms Robotics line. Need anything?

Back to cars, the Mindstorms series teaches the use of gearing and almost anything mechanical. One of the projects teaches how to build a working fixed rear end, then an open rear end, then limited slip, and finally one that is synchronized with motors. Any kid who completes this will know far more about the way a differential works than the average adult.

Pat

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pws

i live in S.CA, so YMMV

i was averaging 26 mpg but with the recent addition of a magnet system (i know some people claim it can't possibly work but i now average over 30 MPG and my driving habits did not change - i consistently blow through 65 mph in third gear when getting onto the highway and driving on the 210 means averaging 75-80 just to stay with the flow of traffic most of the time.

my top is down year round - the ears get cold at 40 degrees and 80mph windchill in january & feburary but i have a hat for that. otherwise, the heater does the trick. i heartily recommend a windscreen, i cut mine own out of plexigrass for about $30, without one i have found conversation to be practically impossible over 50 mph, with one, i can converse just about all the time even on a cell as long as i use a head set (except when noisy traffic prevents it)

i've bought my miata used over 8 years ago for only $6500 at 94K. i've replaced the spark wires, the clutch and the radiator (which was the cause of my overheating in a recent thread - flow had been inhibited by about 40%) - everything else has been general maintenance and i just broke 200K two days ago.

I LOVE HAVING A MIATA

i am now in my mid 40's. it's getting a little tougher to get in and out of the car, but only a minor inconvenience.

barry

marvin- 90 sky blue.

"i can spell. i just can't type."

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barry

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