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Who would come up with the one touch window down idea and not also do a one touch window up function? I have always dropped the windows an inch or so to raise the roof (some cars do this automatically), now I find they end up all the way down (or just one does). Its like trying to put exactly £20 of petrol in your car - I cant do it any more.
moan moan winge winge.....grrrrrrrrrrr

Obviously but more seriously see this blog:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/..._problems.html

Its interesting reflecting on the differences between my old and new MX5. For one, the oil pressure gauge is actually a gauge which reports oil pressure and changes therein. On the MK2 it was a gauge in the dash, but actually it was connected to a yes/no switch - and as such it served no real purpose. It would have been easier to have a light on the dash when you had no oil pressure. Frankly as I dont have a turbo and as its not a track dog even the real gauge serves no real purpose.
It has ...

After 10 glorious years and 91,000 miles I have said bye bye to my Mk2 1.8i. In 10 years and use in all weather conditions, the only things to go wrong were:
1. rust on bootlid seam (a known issue on Mk2s in a certain batch and replaced under warranty without question).
2. new clutch slave cylinder
3. I had rear sills/arches done 2 years ago as they were bad on the inside (all that winter salt).
4. Coil pack was on its last legs when I PX'd it, but I did tell them (fine starting ...

Another lesson on drums. Now we're getting somewhere. The drum playing is part of a project to record "While my guitar gently weeps" by George Harrison, with me playing all the instruments. The lesson this week was to learn how to play all the "fills". These are a sort of musical punctuation that occurs at regular points throughout the song e.g. the drums will play a steady beat for a bit and then, at an artistically meaningful point "bish bash bosh diddle-dee-dum" ...