Gay.

Conscript said:
:D Already been out last night and the night before....roof down despite it being close to 0C and it's still suprisingly warm in the cabin. It has a well set up heater system; the only part of my body that felt cold was the crown of my head just sticking up into the sliptream slightly...
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good man - got to have the top down all the time, only time its acceptable to have it up is when its raining and your stuck in traffic - if you keep moving you keep dry :D

And always carry a hat (or two if you like your passengers) for that very reason, i tended to find a nice orange one with ear flaps to be pretty cunning:
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They are ace fun, slow, but ace fun. I drove to Swindon in ours at the weekend for an epic football match with Walsall (I lie about the epic bit) and then back on the Sunday and I wouldn't get very annoyed if I had to drive it long distances as even with the hard top it's a noisy little thing.
 
Beautiful clear sunny day today. So drove my girlfriend to the stables, dropped the top and spent a happy hour cruising around the country lanes of the Hoo peninsula :D Took the opportunity of the good weather to stop off and snap some better pics too.

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Fantastic little car. Days like today make you really appreciate it; even a relatively gentle jaunt around quiet B-roads are such good fun and with the roof down and the sun shining, there's not a lot of better ways I can think to spend a Saturday morning. Absolutely love the thing :)
 
EliotG said:
I like these, but they look ridiculous with that gargantuan arch gap lol.
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Sorry to bump the thread, but bit of an update on this. At first, I was just going to live with the arch gap, didn't really want to muck around with the standard car. However, after a few weeks driving I kinda felt the car was lacking something. It was awesome fun, but didn't really feel as amazing handling wise as I'd expected. Also, each time I looked at the car, I noticed those arch gaps more and more.

Anyway, started doing some research. It turns out that the Mk3 MX5, upon coming to the European market, is fitted with taller springs - not only do they give the 4x4 look, but they also increase the body roll, reduce turn in, and to top it off, it knocks the geometry settings out. This gives the MK3 some poorer handling which attracted some negative reviews from MX5 enthusiasts.

So next week, I'm taking it to Wheels in Motion (I'm sure most on here are familiar with them). They are renowned for the work they doing on geometry adjustments and have done a lot of work with MX5s, the MK3 in particular - they offer a package whereby they will fit lower springs, bringing the ride height back to what it should be and sort the geometry out as well. Every piece of feedback I've heard about them is positive and full of praise for their work, and a lot of MK3 owners claim that the handling is transformed as a result of the modifications.

So hopefully, as of next Saturday I will have a car which handles like it's meant to and wont look like it's on stilts :)
 
It was a big flaw on the Mk3 which they sorted on the Mk3.5 and is easily sorted with some geo work. WIM have a good reputation on the Mazda forums.
 
Yup Mazda fitted taller springs on the Mk3 to comply with EU safety laws with regard to hitting pedestrians and never bothered to fix the geo.

Can't go wrong with going to Tony at WIM, unfortunately his wife passed away to cancer very recently.
 
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