Hi all,
new member from Brackley here. Got my MX-5 NC 1.8 in late January and I just love to take it for a drive on a sunny weekend. Have already completed about 1600 miles in it. It’s my first car, because I’ve never had the need for a car before due to sufficient public transportation in my former home town Aachen, Germany. But here in Brackley it’s almost impossible to not have car, so I thought why not go with a fun option. In fact I even had the car before I had a flat to live in, and my first V5C was registered to the AirBnB I stayed in at the time.
I love working on the car, have done all the maintenance myself. Did an oil/filter change, refurbished the headlights, replaced screeching auxiliary belt, gear/diff fluid change, cleared the drain holes and installed new front brakes because the old calipers were sticking. Changed the aftermarket wheels that were mounted when I bought it back to a set of original refurbished wheels as it needed new tyres anyway. How boring (and cheaper…) would it have been if I had bought a perfectly good car with full service history that I couldn’t have done any work on
Just joined the OC last week, the car already had an OC sticker on it so maybe one of the previous owners is even on this forum.
Cheers
Marius