Information for the Do It Yourself Miata Owner
The headlight lenses on the Rallycross Miata were so cloudy you could barely see the bulbs through the lenses. Not that we need the lights to run Rallycross, but they were very ugly. We had used a polishing kit on our other Miatas, but they seem to get cloudy more quickly than we expected. At […]
Since I purchased two hardtops, I have needed a place to store them when off the car. There are many ways mentioned on the internet about how to store them. The suggestions ranged from lifts that mount to the ceiling to carts that rolled around on the floor to wall racks for hanging the hardtops. […]
I have installed a trailer hitch on my 2000 SE Miata and my son’s 2000 LS Miata. I pull a small aluminum trailer that hauls tires and tools etc. for autocross. The hitches are Class I 1.25 inch Receiver Hitches by Curt #11755. I purchased them online from Advance Auto Parts for $169.99 when they offered the 20% off […]
Just after purchasing my first Miata I noticed how the soft top latches were drooping. One actually fell open while I was driving. I decided to take them off and see what I could do to fix them. After all, what good is a latch that will not latch? The latch disconnect lever has a […]
My wife and I did not like the A/C vents in my Miatas. They would not stay positioned and much to my wife’s chagrin could not be turned off individually. She did not like the A/C blowing on her all the time. I found this project to replace the vents with louvered vents from a […]
I found a thread that outlined installing a flasher on the third brake light. With the car being so little, I thought that was a great idea so others can see me better, especially when stopping. It is a low cost safety feature that works. One of the links is http://www.miata.net/garage/brakeflash.html . It outlines using a flasher […]
I bought two hardtops to use on my fleet of Miatas with the intention of painting them to match two of the cars. Both had to be retrieved from long distances, so I needed to be able to latch the tops to my 2000 SE when I picked them up. So, before making the first […]
The first thing I needed to do my Miata SE was to figure out how to do the timing belt maintenance. I read all the threads I could find on this before I began and am glad I did. I found Miata.net and the garage section has instructions with pictures showing how to do the […]
As I mentioned above in the section about P0300, my 2000 SE had a coil pack go bad and I continued to drive the car home. Now the P0420 code appeared. Due to the prior issue, I knew the CAT was now bad. It is costly to replace the CAT, but it turned out to […]
My 2000 SE had some issues right after I purchased it. The CEL started flashing and the car ran very rough to the point it would not make power to move. Not knowing how important it was to stop and fix it, I got it to limp home. The code was P0300 and the problem […]