Thread: Timattalon's MX5 woes

We were replacing cranks left right and centre when those things first came out lol.
Kept us busy at the dealership thats for sure. Only seemed to be the 1s with powersteering...

Originally Posted by cambo

We were replacing cranks left right and centre when those things first came out lol.
Kept us busy at the dealership thats for sure. Only seemed to be the 1s with powersteering...

Is it still an issue with these motors?

At what km do/did the issue rear its head?

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

Is it still an issue with these motors?

At what km do/did the issue rear its head?

All the 1s we did were under warranty still so less than 3yrs old. I'm talking about the original NA 1600s. Generally started when customer noticed it lose performance or was generally hard to start.
The early BP motors all did it even in the 323s

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

Is it still an issue with these motors?

At what km do/did the issue rear its head?

Originally Posted by cambo

All the 1s we did were under warranty still so less than 3yrs old. I'm talking about the original NA 1600s. Generally started when customer noticed it lose performance or was generally hard to start.
The early BP motors all did it even in the 323s

I cannot speak for the rest of the country but here in Chch the MX5 has become quite popular and well sought after car. I bought mine as a run around hack some years back for a bit of fun with a longer than normal commute. I fell for it and really enjoy it as a daily driver. There are a lot of NA (89-96?) floating around and a lot of them have been well looked after. Mine has well over 225000km on it but apart from that- its straight, runs well (but lacks power now due to timing issue above) I must also put my hand up and say it is possibly due to something I did when we did the front seal last time. I may have done / not done something which may have contributed to this. Not sure what it was....but I feel its wrth fixing...

As a side note, this was orginally just a comment in the campfire thread to say I knew how the guy felt....I did not expect it to get to two pages .....