Raider's Neverending love/hate with Christine

My surprise when I changed mine out after I moved into the CA gold country foothills...Mouse had taken underhood sound blanket material and made a ball/nest so large the filters were stuck in place. Even locked up squirrel cage fan and motor fuse had blown. Oddly the one that blew is a small electronic fuse on motor housing. Had a spare ..that was a bigger shocker than the fur ball.

 

@Cfoldone , it is a lot more common than you think, Imagine a garage kept miata smelling rancid. There is no cabin filter. There is a screen to prevent leaves into the vents, but that is it. That is never replaced. Dash was removed to find 7 rats and 3 full nests. His garage was next to a dumpster and thee concrete blocks had small openings to vent. So they came in through that and messed up his car. Sold it to Carmax once it was fixed screened the openings and bought another one.

 

Took Christine out for some old man blind spot mirror add-ons (holy crap I'm spoiled by the tech in my CX-50) and a tank of 93. Decided to make a startup video. Love the mudflap shaking like it's scared.

 

Stereo upgrade! Driven over 100 miles now. Putting her in use more now. Next up is roof and door vinyl replacement.

 

Headlight restoration on Christine! For years I used meguiars. Wet sand, drill polish then clear. Then I was told this Cerakote stuff was better and easier. Perfect. I found the kit's gloves were trash but my Harbor Freight nitrile ones worked. Overall an easy process. The end result to me is better than meguiars too.

This is the goods: CERAKOTE® Ceramic Headlight...

 

Installed the Corksport filter condom to reduce sand infiltration of the filter. Apparently they know about my D.

 

17 years and 164k miles later. Still evil. Happy mazdaversary, Christine.

 

Too bad the door trim fell off

 

Hahahaha! No.

 

And the front emblem looks off for some reason.


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People still use tapatalk when mobile Chrome is better? Also, the emblem is a cursive M. For mine.

 

Plastic restoration ✅

Was recommended it and boy, easy application. Need a foam brush to get into snug spots but it went on easy. WEAR NITRILE GLOVES! Couldn't locate mine so sent it. Will leave em nasty.

So far so good. 100 times better too.

Solution Finish - Black Plastic &...

 

How in the world does someone who hate side moulding as much as you have the rear bumper protectors

 

They cover the scratch quite well!

 

Home Depot sleigh runs?

 

Lol I forget. Happened when I just got it.

 

bro..... just paint the bumper or get a strip of black vinyl the inch thick chunk of rubber is

 

What scratch?


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Exactly.

 

Or leave it and not worry about what the slower cars see.