Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread

Talk about your cars etc here. Keep it sort of sensible and on topic please.
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Re: Reliable Mazda Engine: a spectral fleet thread

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ghosty wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2019 8:47 pm It turns out the little mesh grille in the bumper is actually pretty alright looking, so I'm just going to leave it be.
Wrong grille. Needs one of these up front:
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ghosty wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2019 9:51 pm One of them broke when I took them off, and they didn't work on the car. They weren't fused either so suspect they're dead.
Never fused them myself either but to be fair they never last long! The ones on my trike are flickering on one side.
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Was asking as good for spares. I want one to put up in shed for a light.
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They're still about anyway so I'll dig em out for you in case they work, they'll be in a carrier bag in the garage, not the bin yet.
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SiC wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2019 8:57 am Next question ... how many times have you made the lights go up? When we had our MX5 I think I must have done that for a few minutes not long after buying it.

Lights go up .... Lights go down ... Lights go up ... Lights go down

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Are you insured to drive any car third party yet on your insurance? Or not quite old enough for insurers to start doing that? (Iirc need to be main driver and many require them to be >25yrs)

Regarding these questions, a lot. My mum loves it, as does her friend with the mk1 Granada. I'm looking for excuses to let people out of junctions etc to press the light button.

Nope, no other vehicles cover yet.
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Thanks max,want anything for them?
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Nah, don't worry about it.
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Went out.

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Family day out to take all cars? I'd hope that either you had the top down in the mx5 or the AC works in the Volvo!
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Yes it was! MX5 roof was down (and has working aircon), Volvo aircon works but the blower is pants (can't find RHD blower so has an LHD one in backwards). Civic doesn't have a/c.

I had a look at the daisies. They look pretty clean, no kerbing and should scrub up well. They're anodised (?!) so no point doing anything to them, aside fit better tyres. They're 14x5.5" so eminently usable, most likely as summer wheels, and then I'll have the powder coated Panasports for winter, in 14x6".
I'm going to sell the MX3 wheels, anyone want a set of five spoke 15" 4x100 alloys? Centre bore 54.1mm, et45. Made by Enkei (lot of OE Mazda wheels are) so actually good wheels.
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