you need one for the other foot now...

So now we have to book another airfield session so I can spank the living daylights out of your new toy

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but MX-5s are rear wheel drive.

As for the car: Wasn't April 1st 11 days ago?

 

Dembo:

I should've put that on 2 lines:
The car had to be rear-wheel drive.
...
I wasn't keen on owning an MX-5.

 

I hope the independent is good - I checked the oil at the weekend and it was black, despite them saying it'd had a B service (which includes filter & oil change).

The B service should also include: "check the heating works correctly". They didn't mention the fact that the blower direction doesn't actually work...

Ho-hum. Once summer arrives, these will be minor distractions away from the reasonably-sorted driving experience.

But rating so far for dealer = 3 out of 5.

 

they are suppsoed to be fun my brother inlaw has just ordered one of hte new ones , so what was the cost ?

 

Have you still got the box it came in ... ?

 

i don't think you'll get much stick.. it's actually reported to handle really really well but the auto box lets it down.

does it have a dump valve?

 

Car is 22 months old, had 19k miles, cost just under

 

The proper term is "waste gate"
I'm very impressed with the handling so far - it feels very go-karty and is quite a firm ride. It'll be even more so once I change the bushes to PU ones...

It doesn't have an unneccessarily huge waste gate. Apparently, the bigger it is, the more useless it is: there's an optimum size based on the size of the turbo/intake pipe/whatever. At the moment, it's still on stock, until it appears necessary to change it. But there's other things that need changing first (tyres, TIK pipe, exhaust ).

Black Oil Issue
It turns out that Smarts don't have a sump plug (even the Brabuses) so the oil has to be syphoned out of the dipstick tube. This means that every oil change leaves around 300ml of old oil in the bottom!

But drilled and plugged stock sumps are available for

 

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I'm sorry to hear that.



I was looking at buying one of those little Roadsters a couple of years ago, fun cars..