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leica posted:But you're defeating the purpose of leaving the doors unlocked if you lock the glove box and console, they are obviously going to think there's something valuable in there and break them open, it doesn't take much. If I leave something visible from outside the car, an unlocked door prevents a broken window or a cut top. Obviously the other two locks aren't very high security, but they're something, and much cheaper to replace than a new top. Otherwise why lock any car ever? Someone who thinks there's something inside will always be able to get it.
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Insurance often will refuse to pay out if you left your car unlocked and an incident occurs. Best not to mention it to them while filing a claim. Also I heard somewhere that if you roll up the windows and lock the doors but leave the top down, then the car is considered 'secure'.
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Sep 11, 2014 20:26
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Who keeps full coverage on an NA? I guess you guys crash a lot.
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Elephanthead posted:Who keeps full coverage on an NA? I guess you guys crash a lot. I do. It's $30 a month and pays out 1.5k more than I paid for the thing.
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Sep 11, 2014 21:06
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Comprehensive coverage != full coverage. It's like $20/half for me.
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Elephanthead posted:Who keeps full coverage on an NA? I guess you guys crash a lot. Comprehensive coverage is great, bought me a new top when somebody slashed it because I didn't leave my doors unlocked.
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Sep 11, 2014 22:19
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Viper915 posted:If I leave something visible from outside the car, an unlocked door prevents a broken window or a cut top. Obviously the other two locks aren't very high security, but they're something, and much cheaper to replace than a new top. Otherwise why lock any car ever? Someone who thinks there's something inside will always be able to get it. If you don't leave anything of value in your Miata, then you don't have to lock anything and nothing will get broken/cut. Has worked for me so far, although I had to learn the hard way with my first Miata just like you did.
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Sep 11, 2014 22:33
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If you're not carrying someone, take out the passenger seat. No one breaks into a car missing a seat when they have the option of breaking into another car with all of its seats. It's only 4 bolts and saves you ~30 pounds too.
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leica posted:I try to harp on this a lot, but some people just don't get it. They are shocked when I tell them I never lock my car. Just don't leave anything in it, it's pretty simple. Well if you live in an urban area you will wake up one morning to find a bum's steamy poo poo on your seat. It's rare that somebody will cut a convertible top to take a dump, but they'll certainly open an unlocked door.
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Urban areas scare me, I once found a note asking me to not park cars costing less then 50K outside as it made property values decline in my posh suburban ideological wasteland. I now hide my shame inside the garage.
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Hog Obituary posted:Well if you live in an urban area you will wake up one morning to find a bum's steamy poo poo on your seat. It's rare that somebody will cut a convertible top to take a dump, but they'll certainly open an unlocked door. I'd just put fake poop on the seat to deter another pooping. Fake puke also for good measure.
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Elephanthead posted:Urban areas scare me, I once found a note asking me to not park cars costing less then 50K outside as it made property values decline in my posh suburban ideological wasteland. I now hide my shame inside the garage. Must it have cost $50k when new, or currently be worth more than $50k? This sounds like an awesome HOA rule.
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Twerk from Home posted:Must it have cost $50k when new, or currently be worth more than $50k? This sounds like an awesome HOA rule. If the value is determined only by original retail price are you allowed to use inflation-adjusted dollars? I've lived in a condo and dealing with a strata is bad enough, I can't imagine putting up with a HOA.
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Hog Obituary posted:Well if you live in an urban area you will wake up one morning to find a bum's steamy poo poo on your seat. It's rare that somebody will cut a convertible top to take a dump, but they'll certainly open an unlocked door. This is why I lock my doors. I used to not, but then I found used condoms and empty dime bags inside one morning. Only I get to party that hard inside my car, no one else.
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That's disgusting. Where do you live with bums like that? Our bums are civilized.
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I wish it were bums. No, I live in a middle-class suburban town with a lot of retirees and their kids. Because it's mostly older folk around here, there's not much going on so the kids are bored. That's a bad combination.
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Sep 12, 2014 20:47
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"Hey check out this Miata, it's not locked! Lets get inside it and fu...Oh wait nevermind there's not enough room to masturbate in there."
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Horny teenager whose girlfriend has agreed to smoke weed and then gently caress inside a stranger's car. I'm not condoning anything, but if I were him I'd make it happen no matter the car.
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Sep 12, 2014 23:30
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It's physically impossible to have sex in a Miata unless you're both 5' 130 pounds even then it would be difficult.
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revmoo posted:Insurance often will refuse to pay out if you left your car unlocked and an incident occurs. This isn't a thing.
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leica posted:It's physically impossible to have sex in a Miata unless you're both 5' 130 pounds even then it would be difficult. I have full faith in the ability of two horny teenagers to Make. It. Happen. no matter the cost. Specially if it is in a culture desert suburb.
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Bovril Delight posted:This isn't a thing. I said this last time this came up, it varies. Mine explicitly says that leaving your car locked (and top up, and windows up) is due care. I haven't had to make a claim where it'd be relevant but it's loving insurance, their business is all about avoiding paying.
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Edmund Honda posted:I said this last time this came up, it varies. The business isn't about not paying because doing that makes you wind up paying more when people attorney rep. The standard ISO contract doesn't have anything around this and I haven't seen anything for a major company that would preclude coverage. What country and company?
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Sep 13, 2014 02:25
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Fuckin' lol if you ain't using the rollbar for leverage. Track supremacy reigns, again.
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 ND RUMORMILL http://www.autoblog.com/2014/09/12/aussie-mazda-mx-5-miata-specs-leak-suggests-power-loss/ quote:Motoring.com sources indicate that a 1.5-liter Skyactiv four-cylinder will nestle low in the ND's engine bay, with a rating of just 96 kW – that's 129 horsepower, a 13-percent drop in power over the Aussie-spec 2.0-liter four in the current Miata. Torque figures were apparently not disclosed by their source, but the publication expects the torque figure to come in above the 144 Nm (106 pound-feet) of the top-spec 1.5-liter four in the forthcoming Mazda2. Hahaha, those power numbers would be amazing if true (but they are probably not true... right?  )e: although I assume that compares with the 1.8L or whatever they have in the lower-spec NC right now Hog Obituary fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Sep 13, 2014 |
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Every ND thread would be the BRZ/FRS thread if that were true  needs 30-50 HP
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They better figure out a way to stick the 2.5L Skyactiv in the car with some tweaked engine tuning, or its gonna be a sad day.
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It's going to be the 2.0L making between 160-165hp and, more importantly, 155+ ft-lbs of torque.
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Phone posted:It's going to be the 2.0L making between 160-165hp and, more importantly, 155+ ft-lbs of torque. The US Miata will get the 2.0 as the base engine. ROW will get a smaller base engine with the 2.0 as an upgrade. Same as it ever was.
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PeterWeller posted:The US Miata will get the 2.0 as the base engine. ROW will get a smaller base engine with the 2.0 as an upgrade. Same as it ever was. USA gets the good stuff, while the ROW gets screwed. As it should be. 
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leica posted:It's physically impossible to have sex in a Miata unless you're both 5' 130 pounds even then it would be difficult. Passenger seat
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Nodoze posted:Passenger seat Either seat if you have the top down and a roll bar. 
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Cakefool posted:ROW can take advantage of the lower weight, fatass Americans need a larger engine to get the same effect. Take your underpowered car excuses to the Toyobaru thread. 
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I'm enjoying the amount of angst displacement is causing.
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meatpimp posted:Either seat if you have the top down and a roll bar. I don't have a roll bar in my S2K 
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Goober Peas posted:I'm enjoying the amount of angst displacement is causing. I maintain than 200hp would be enough for this car if it were delivered from a good engine and not the lovely Subaru boxer it's saddled with.
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It's spreading...
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Why would you want a new miata anyway? They made hundreds of thousands of proper ones from 1990 to 2005.
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The ND will be the best Miata yet in literally every way and I feel confident in saying this despite not even knowing the final specs let alone having driven one. Sometimes the grognards are right, most of the time they aren't.
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