There is a guy on here who sells these little wedge things, which users have given positive reports. I’m sure someone will remember who he is.
Here he is, roadie Hoop rubbing solution
I’ve always lowered and raised mine form outside- every single time in 7.5 years, and I’ve got the same roll hoop/hood gap as when i bought it. I think some of it is down to luck. I’ve seen new ones in dealerships over the last few years with the hood rubbing in the down position. and I’ve seen clearance on some too. It seems a lottery. And appalling it still occurs, nearly DECADE on.
Roadie’s wedges seem a good solution in any case, for not much outlay.
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Had them on my last 2 cars, removes all doubt.
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It is that. The Mazda solution is the whole hub, not just the problematic, individual bushings.
Mind you, with the whole hub you do get every one of the bushings new of course.
I’m now doing all my sales through eBay. Makes payment and postage simpler and all orders covered by eBay buyer protection with tracked delivery by Royal Mail.
Around 99% success rate with stopping the hood touching the hoops, if they don’t work for you then I’ll refund in full. 
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Will do 
Hi guys, I have an update from the seller. They had to delay the delivery because they received the wrong rear bushes. I asked them to take photos of the undercarriage (seems like normal amount of surface rust) and the front windows trim (one starts bubbling up).
Since they delayed me, I asked them to rectify the window trim and take a road test to make sure the gearbox is in good working order. However, he said that this little amount of rust is to be expected - I don’t accept this, they delayed by at least another week so they have the time to rectify the window trim.
EDIT: Sorry, should have been clear that the surface rust on the bottom looks good, but the window trim doesn’t. This is the one I’m not happy with.
What do you all think? Thank you!
For its age that rust is actually pretty good. Budget on getting some rust protection if it’s going to be a keeper.
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Thanks Ian, I agree with you, the surface rust on the bottom seems ok but I was talking about not being happy with the rust on the window trim. Sorry for the confusion!
That’s also a known problem there is a replacement part available (though MX-5 Parts don’t seem to list it unless I have looked in the wrong place), also should be relatively straightforward to clean up.
Question is do you want the garage to potentially do a ‘quick’ fix or sort it yourself later.
Thanks Ian, you’re right and it would probably be better to do it myself once I take delivery. I wonder how much that would cost and if I could potentially do it myself - MX-5 parts has both guide and rubber for around £100 here.
The sales person said they won’t cover it so basically this is it. I tried my luck but he won’t budge.
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I was referring to the vertical metal piece at the rear of the quarterlight, front of the window glass, not 100% that this is the same thing. I could easily be wrong though.
Edit, known as the glass guide, I think the black bit is trim rather than the whole thing (hopefully)
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Yes, undercarrige looks fine imo, for a 10 year old car.
The window bit, there was this TSB
https://www.miata.net/garage/tsb/Rust%20on%20Front%20Door%20Quarter%20Glass%20Guide%20at%20where%20it%20contacts%20Beltline%20Molding.pdf
New parts were produced, going by that (part numbers might be US though).
Nevertheless, it should be straightforward for them to get the parts and fit. Well, I’ll caveat that, refrase that, straight forward and dealers etc etc.
If you’re not happy when push comes to shove, there will always be and is, another ND out there.
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I’m quite handy, would you say this is something that can be done at home in my garage? haha
Getting into the door is not that difficult, you just need to be very wary when going near the window regulator as you don’t want an unwound cable..
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Not another one! Does this count as a private or business sale?!
Not even my car haha it’s going nowhere tbh 
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