28-03-2014, 01:19 PM
The rear brace should be present as standard on an L-reg I think, but yes, certainly worth checking and getting if it's not present.
The oil filter location is certainly not the most thoughtful piece of design by the Japanese - I'd forgotten about the fun that was doing a service and needing to be double-jointed to remove the filter
If you haven't already, check the rear sills and quarters for rot - MX5's are notorious for going there thanks to another questionable bit of design, and I remember when I was looking for mine a few years back that it was getting hard to find early cars that weren't going there. They rot from the inside out, so by the time you start to see bubbling on the outside it's already in a bad way - oh how I laugh at the "slight surface rust" claims on many an eBay advert...
The oil filter location is certainly not the most thoughtful piece of design by the Japanese - I'd forgotten about the fun that was doing a service and needing to be double-jointed to remove the filter
If you haven't already, check the rear sills and quarters for rot - MX5's are notorious for going there thanks to another questionable bit of design, and I remember when I was looking for mine a few years back that it was getting hard to find early cars that weren't going there. They rot from the inside out, so by the time you start to see bubbling on the outside it's already in a bad way - oh how I laugh at the "slight surface rust" claims on many an eBay advert...
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