The Miata Developed a Clunkyscrape

"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain) 04/05/2019 at 01:45 • Filed to: None

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That’s really the best way to describe the noise. It’s coming from somewhere in the front steering/suspension area and happens on fast/high load wheel movements. I’m wondering if it’s related to the giant pothole that knocked off my alignment. I took the car for a run through La Honda today and it’s definitely not right. It was wet out so the limits were low and the car was a bit nervous at the front and wanted to push all of the damn time. Wasn’t like that before, so I need to jack things up on Sunday when the rain is done . This is why you have three cars. Yep, it’s not a life choice, it’s a necessity.

On the bright side, I finally checked something off my want-to-do list and stopped at Alice’s Restaurant on S kyline for lunch. I’m annoyed because now I just want to go there every damn day for lunch. The guys sitting behind me were chatting about restoring E-Types.

The roads going to and from are outstanding. Though a couple people had definitely recently bin’d there cars. One was half up a tree and another area had a pretty mangled barrier. It’s slippery when wet. Duh.

It’s ultra cool that a place like this exists. In a random plot twist, the fellow next to me asked to take a picture of my burger (The BMW Burger, mind you) and I said “sure”. He replied “I started the company that farmed the hydroponic lettuce on your burger! Farmed right up the street. ” Once again proving that you can get away from the tech of silicon valley, but only for a moment.

CompactLuxuryFan > Nick Has an Exocet 04/05/2019 at 02:19

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Jealous! I now know Alice’s is actually good, just not on weekends when I’ve been there. Will have to take a day off sometime soon!

SmugAardvark > Nick Has an Exocet 04/05/2019 at 02:26

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I’ll have to go check this out at some point. I’m not too far away , but I’ll admit the only fun driving I’ve done around there is Highway 9 to get down to Santa Cruz.