do not buy toys as dailies

"Ducky" (Ducky)
06/23/2014 at 13:11 • Filed to: fuck Florida, Miata life, miata

The Miata is certainly a learning experience.

I have just been informed my Miata's A/C has a massive refridgerant leak; and even if it didn't there is no insulation on the piping so the "fresh air" is getting heated by the engine and is hotter than ambient.

I have also noticed that my rear glass is coming unbonded and is tearing and it is leaking badly. Putting it up and down makes the tear and leaking worse. So i can either get drenched in sweat or drenched in rain. This is not ideal.

Do not buy the first Miata you drive. Do not fall in love. Always be ready to walk.

DISCUSSION (16)

PS9 > Ducky
06/23/2014 at 13:17

Whatever you got going on, it's miles better than walking/biking/bussing everywhere. Trust me on this man. I know.

Nothing > Ducky
06/23/2014 at 13:18

That's why my Miata is more of a fun car, although to be fair to it, I bought it as a project. Despite it's shortcomings, I drive it way more than I have the FoST lately. Extreme heat, A/C, and family hauling are the most likely reasons that I'll choose it over the Miata.

RazoE > Ducky
06/23/2014 at 13:22

Get a hardtop, problem solved!

mcseanerson > Ducky
06/23/2014 at 13:24

Damn man. I daily my Miata now and am in pretty much the same situation. Only difference? I'm in Ohio so I am not going through that Florida Bullshit. I know what you mean sweating to death when it's raining. Grew up there in many cars with no ac.

Ducky > RazoE
06/23/2014 at 13:30

yes spend $500 on a 15 year old piece of polyurethane with its own fitment problems then another $200 on brackets and shit so I don't spend $600 buying and getting a soft top installed.

That does not make sense. I looked into it cause man that sounds neat, but it just doesn't make sense.

Ducky > Nothing
06/23/2014 at 13:31

yeah. If I was at any point in my life other than my senior year of college I would've stopped putting up with this long ago and gotten a real car and not the ridiculous go kart.

But here I am so I'm whining on the internet while I do sick parking lot drifts

dinobot666 > Ducky
06/23/2014 at 13:31

Lesson already learned, although it took me multiple times of making the same mistake.

Ducky > PS9
06/23/2014 at 13:32

Yeah, that's true. It's just hard to remember that sometimes.

Nothing > Ducky
06/23/2014 at 13:38

I head ya. I had a POS '85 2 door Cherokee while in college. It wasn't that old of a vehicle, but man, it was terrible. And being in rust land, it was already heavily rusted.

mcseanerson > Ducky
06/23/2014 at 13:40

hardtops are about 1k now most places

RazoE > Ducky
06/23/2014 at 13:41

"Do it once, do it right"

Lasts longer than a soft-top.

jariten1781 > Ducky
06/23/2014 at 13:41

Soft top isn't too hard to install. Drill out old rivets, rivet new one on. Took about 4 hours when I did mine solo in a public park's lot since I didn't have a garage at the time. Saves quite a bit and beats the duct taped together window I'd been driving with for a year.

2222222222212 > Ducky
06/23/2014 at 13:51

Even with the brackets and whatnot, the hard top is still waaaaay easier than re-uphostering a soft top frame. Or you could get a new top on the frame and pay more than $600.

Ducky > 2222222222212
06/23/2014 at 14:03

well the idea now is "do some bullshit that will stop the soft top from leaking for the 6 more months I'm going to own the car and be upfront about the fact that it needs a new top solution basically immediately to whoever i sell it to" rather than "do it right, do it now" which is the actual, correct solution

Ducky > RazoE
06/23/2014 at 14:06

i'm graduating and getting the hell out of dodge in december and have zero intention of keeping the car then. "doing it right" has minimal benefit for me.

shitty and self-centered, yeah, but nothing i wouldn't expect someone else to do to me

2222222222212 > Ducky
06/23/2014 at 14:18

I actually laughed. That'll do.