Lots of hood down runs out over last few weeks, so a well earned wash and sparkle.
Callipers are going to get some paint love…. Any suggestions on colour?
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Washed my 2.5 and managed to dislodge the loose Mazda badge on the front bumper. Guessing its meant to be held in place by clips?
Washed the car for the first time this year. No, I have not been being lazy, the house next door was bought by a builder, and since January there has been dust-generating extension work going on several days a week, every week. He’s finally finished it so our cars are back in a clean environment.
On a related note, does anyone have a better way of cleaning the inside of the rear window on an ND soft top than stretching past the seats and style bars with the roof up? Any attempt to partially fold back the roof results in the target area being folded away out of reach.
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Bless You…Mirroring My True Thoughts 
Totally Concur with Autoglym and I’ve Only Done the Boot Lid [Have to Pace Myself 
aka ‘Bullit’]
Think My Problem Solving Brain was on ‘Brainstorming Alternative Solutions’ which includes ‘Cost/Benefit Analysis’ [Not Always to Do With Finance]
It Included the Option…Would Bullit Be Better Off With a More Savvy & Hands On O.C. Member as Evidenced By This Thread instead of Me…Because It’s About Keeping Her for Prosperity rather than My Needs 
Was Able to Do Corrosion Work Before Pandemic and She’s in Queue for Welding…Same Specialist
And Fret About ‘What Still Needs be Done’ rather than ‘What has Been Achieved Already’
Am I the Right Owner for the Task ???
So When She Failed her MOT [corrosion] on 17.6.22 [Expected] my main concern was her Battery
[Been There Before When For Different Reasons She’s Not Been Used]
And She Started…First Time after 18 Days…Gotta Be a Sign !
She’s Now Been Safely Garaged in a Block away from the Property since Pre-COVID Corrosion Work
How Sentimental Am I !?!?
Tapping Her Steering Wheel & Saying ‘Good Girl’ …Sad or What !!!
AND…I EXPERIENCE ‘SEPERATION ANXIETY’ …How Daft Is That ??? [Happened When She Went in for Specialist Corrosion Work pre-pandemic]
So…She Starts and I Bring Her to the Property to Start the Autoglym
Frankly as Soon as I Saw Her Again after 18 Days…I Thought…WOW…You Are Still So Beautiful Looking for a 17 yr old Car [She Has Been Admired By Old & Young and She’s Had Nothing Like the Work that Members Have Done on Their MX5 !]
AND THERE IS NO WAY I’M GIVING YOU UP…[EXPERT & NON-EXPERT ADVISING IT’S JUST TIME & MONEY]
So Degree & Post Grad Work in Experimental Psychology
But Nothing Explains My Attachment to My MX5 
Any Thoughts Chaps & Chapesses
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Exactly 
Telepathy ?
Getting Very Fed Up With All the ‘Doom & Gloom’ [Media Amplification Spiral ?]
Only Good Thing [Not Football Follower but History Fan]…Go Lionesses …WOW…Against Germany…More WOW 
I Concur…Top Down…Can’t Beat It
Support of MX5 O.C. Members…Priceless 
I had to sell my beloved Mk1 Cortina GT back in 1974 when I fell on hard times, and I can remember looking out of my bedsit window at the empty parking space it used to occupy and felling very low. I missed that car SO much. I still have dreams about finding that car again nearly 50 years later. I have never been so attached to anything (apart from wife and kids, obviously).
What I’m trying to say in my addled old long winded way is that you obviously have the same attachment to your Bullit so you hang onto her. It matter not one whit about being ‘qualified’ by mechanical competence or ‘deserving’ to own her. That car does you good and we all need a little of what does you good in these straitened and depressing times.
Two things keep me going, my grandkids and the Precious, which I bought myself as a 70th birthday present and finally filled the Cortina GT shaped space in my heart. Here she is on the country roads I used to zoom around all those years ago.
You can’t beat that.
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Went and ran lot’s of errands with the little car and my daughter.
First proper wash and claybar of the car today. Will hopefully polish it next week. Fitted the interior car cover from the NA onto the NC…the cover looks like me after a week off in Somerset eating too much…it’s a tight fit!
Really Appreciate Your Reply [More Than You Know]
‘Battery Woes’ & ‘Boot Lid’
Having to Reverse Bullit into Garage rather Drive Straight In to Hopefully Engage Solar Panel ?
So Nearly Did a ‘TerryM1’
Way Too Much Excitement Over Using New Autoglym Products [Forgot I’d Done the Boot Release to Get the Old Cleaning Products Out]
Scratching My Head…Why Are the Reversing Lights On …Engine Off
DOH…It Was the Boot Release Light
I’ve Done a Terry M1…What We Like
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This is what I’ve done, popped down to Mark in Total MX5 Repair in Barry and had my Eibach springs fitted… What a difference!!
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Haha!
(In case anyone is wondering… I tracked down an intermittent flat battery problem to a boot light that occasionally stayed on when I didn’t close the bootlid with enough force)
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Had noticed that the roof mechanism was sounding a little “Clunky/Clicky”
Found some advice on here and got a copy of a PDF from our Miata friends across the pond. The Culprit was a loose Allen Nut on the mechanism
Tightened (and checked other side to be100%). Now back to a nice smooth and quiet operation. Easiest 2 minute fix!
Not sure if it’s been done before I got the car, so will be giving the mechanism/pivot points a good grease/oiling tomorrow.
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Took me almost 3 weeks of faffing, but finally finished the cambelt/waterpump change as well as all o rings and gaskets that can be replaced during the job. Coolant flush and gearbox oil change as well as shifter rebuild.
The car is now at an mx5 specialist for alignment!
Very happy boy today 
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I’ve been wanting it for ages and trying to justify the money. Finally justified it after spending just as much on other things just because it looks cool around the house. Well worth the upgrade right?
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New gearknob fitted
Made from recycled skateboards and the red band is a pretty good match to the soul red paintwork. It’s a fair bit lighter than the original so I’ll have to see if it affects the gear change, seems fine at the moment though.
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Had an eye watering amount spent on my 5 at The MX5 Restorer, including near rear arches, reforged wheels and under bonnet tart up. Ready for the Club stand at the motor show next week.
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Well over the last month and for the first time in history I tried a little DIY… On a few areas of the car.
We noticed the brake calipers aren’t really covered with the best quality finish…
With not many miles plus a 2018 MY vehicle they are looking pretty shabby indeed…
Well okay there not brilliant but definitely look slightly better…
Plus working on the engine bay as I actually enjoy cleaning… J
Next job is to remove the panels behind the seats to see what grime is hidden behind…
Wishing you all a wonderful summer season 
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Nice job MrMBE.
Looking sharp. 
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