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mattpc said:
Welcome to the club. Sounds like a lovely car! I'm hoping to get mine back on the road this weekend (weather permitting..)

Hopefully I will at least have done phase 1 by the time we get to the OCUK Motors Manchester Meet.
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Cheers :)

Hope you can bring the 5 to MM3, if siliconslave comes that will make 3 of us :)
 
Cool, thanks for the info. I found it via autotrader last month and it looked pretty good, but it's nice to hear they are as good as they look.

I'll definately have a drive up there when the weather warms up and have a nose around.
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Have you picked it up now, or are you waiting to do so?
 
Not got a pickup date yet but i did just put the deposit down this morning over the phone. ;)

Going to sort all the details out tomorrow :)

Oh btw let me know when your going over i might have a look with you.
 
It's identical to the one I got, in every aspect including mileage at the time) other than mine is in BRG and not black and is a W reg. :)

Glad you're enjoying it! They really are very rewarding and fun cars to drive - just wait till the rain ceases! :cool: Enjoy the back end action! :D
 
im in the same position, next ca want a soft top, dont really need 4 seats (in fact it would get me out of giving lifts etc! winner :D but they do look a bit girly. not really any way to man them up withour wrecking the drive either!
 
Freefaller said:
Glad you're enjoying it! They really are very rewarding and fun cars to drive - just wait till the rain ceases! :cool: Enjoy the back end action! :D
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Well i've enjoyed all the test drives i've had, just waiting for a pickup date now, when i had a blast in one few weekends back my fait was sealed tbh!
 
there ain't nothing wrong with the jaffas, well actually there is but thats not what a mate with one tells me.

Nice one on getting the car mate :D hope you enjoy it, and hopefully i'll see you for MM3 (its kinda 50:50 atm....)
 
Firestar_3x said:
Best feeling car I have ever driven, everything is so direct and spot on, why I've been fighting the urge to buy one for so long I have no idea.
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Nice one mate, join the club, hope to be able to give you a wave sometime.
Great price on your motor, nice one.

As for why you delayed, marketing mate! We've had the marketing people tellling us for years that top speed, power and acceleration are more important than how great a car feels when you drive it. Clearly the MX doesn't meet the normal "standards" for a performance car and gets slated for it.
Still, we know better now...
 
enjoy it boss :D

You have to remeber that there are rules that come with convertible ownership. basically unless it's tipping it down with rain you have the roof down.

Rememeber if you have the roof down and get caught in a quick shower just wind the windows up and keep going. I stay dry (ish) at any speed over 40 in light rain.

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Damn just had my haircut, maybe I should have waited for MM3 and you could have done it. :D

Im just joking I like the MX5 :)
 
Welcome aboard mate, i can live with all the jokes when the road is slightly slick after a rain shower and i'm drifting sideways round a long bend. I think there are 6 people on here now with 5's. :D
 
Cheers guys for a warm welcome to MX-5 Ownership, some fun times ahead :)

I knew one or two ppl had 5's on this board but i'm shocked how many people have posted back saying they have one!

I'm not a woman so unless its snowing the roof will be down! :D
 
A convertible has a top that can be lowered in good weather; a roadster has a top that can be raised in bad weather.

Once you get used to it you should be alright to raise and lower the roof in about 10 seconds flat from the drivers seat. As happytechie mentiond your fine in most rain as long as your going over 40, and snows even better as it falls slower. Just watch out for getting stuck at traffic lights, at which point the speedy roof raise is in order :) just remeber to pre-lower the windows a touch

(NB, you *can* raise/lower it while moving under about 20... but i wouldn't recomend it... infact a mate's mrk1 hood wasn't closed and went down at 70+ on the motorway and it appears to be alright :o )
 
Siliconslave said:
Once you get used to it you should be alright to raise and lower the roof in about 10 seconds flat from the drivers seat.
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Gave that a go last weekend, must have got it totally wrong since i almost broke my arm!

Love the roof though its so easy to take down, better than electric imho :)

Will do Andy, going to get some shots tomorrow but will hold off :)
 
Firestar_3x said:
Gave that a go last weekend, must have got it totally wrong since i almost broke my arm!
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takes a bit of doing, but you'll get used to it (unless you have girly arms) and yer i totally agree about them being better than the electric, most of which you have to clip in anyhows and take about ten times as long!
 
I'd rather have electric for the win but the manual can't go wrong or get stuck and is cheap to repair/replace. My 5 is only 3 months old but thanks to some utter prat in a Porsche boxter needs a new rear wing after being reversed into. :rolleyes:

Still from phoning up to getting it booked into the body shop only took 3 days so could be worse.
 
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Was very impressed with the Z4 electric roof, hold the button down on the key and you can stand outside the car like a true ponse and lower the windows then the roof, great thing about the Z4 system is the locking catch is electric too so no turning handles unlike the TT.
 
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