Author Topic: Horney: My love for the Mazda MX5  (Read 85862 times)

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Re: Horney: My love for the Mazda MX5
« Reply #230 on: 05 November 2011, 17:42 »
Whats the running costs like on your MX5? i am being taken in by the Roadster charm :cool:

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Re: Horney: My love for the Mazda MX5
« Reply #231 on: 06 November 2011, 15:53 »
Not too bad. Low 30's mpg if driven sensibly, parts prices about the same as a VW of similar age, reliability is supposed to be good and I have no complaints on that front so far. Only sticking point is insurance which can be pricey, especially on imports.


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Re: Horney: My love for the Mazda MX5
« Reply #232 on: 06 November 2011, 17:06 »
Your just rubbing it in now  :cool:

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Re: Horney: My love for the Mazda MX5
« Reply #233 on: 06 November 2011, 17:10 »
:grin: Not a bad car for shed money eh?

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Re: Horney: My love for the Mazda MX5
« Reply #234 on: 06 November 2011, 17:17 »
By Shed do you mean Mk3 :grin:

Car looks sweet, my misses would be easily persuaded to go for an MX5 she only likes them and Landrover 110's.
I am not a Sheep worrying farmer so its the only choice as far her tastes in cars go.
Lets see what happens next year re company car.........

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Re: Horney: My love for the Mazda MX5
« Reply #235 on: 06 November 2011, 18:30 »
can't wait to lower your car.
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Re: Horney: My love for the Mazda MX5
« Reply #236 on: 06 November 2011, 23:29 »
can't wait to lower your car.

Yeah, absolutely.

Think this might be one of my favourite cars on the forum. :lipsrsealed:

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Re: Horney: My love for the Mazda MX5
« Reply #237 on: 07 November 2011, 13:05 »
Noticed recently the handling has been a bit off and the car felt twitchy and not very sure footed, especially at speed or over rough stuff. On cleaning this weekend I noticed that the inside of my nearside tyre was quite warn and it looked like I had a fair bot of toe out going on. Seems my "Off" the other week must have knocked a few things out.

Took it to a local place to work at lunch to have the tracking done and they tweeked front and rear, it was quite far out! The quick blast back to work seems to show much improvement. In fact it feels better than ever. Result!

Will be interesting to see the further improvement the full alignment at WIM will make when I get that done in December after fitting the lowering springs.

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Re: Horney: My love for the Mazda MX5
« Reply #238 on: 08 November 2011, 21:43 »
Ducktail spoiler delivered and fitted today :cool:











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Re: Horney: My love for the Mazda MX5
« Reply #239 on: 09 November 2011, 08:27 »
Holy sh!t. That's so cool.