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Had a 1.8 v6 last year for a bit was very smooth car, nice ride and built well but be ready to get wasted by a 1.8 focus or such like!! not fast of the line but pull quite well at motorway speeds in top, mine was a vgc 96 se spec, uk car with 80k made about £1200 on the bay!  Thats exactly the sort of information I was after - thanks one and all. Interesting you mention about it's motorway performance, as this is where it'll spend 90% of it's life! Anyone know what the average service cost is (I'll do it myself, but an estimated cost is always helpful), and what the intervals are + cambelt changes? |
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Jan 18, 2007 18:32:52 GMT
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Didnt have mine long enough to remember intervals but new front brakes were cheap enough, £20 each for discs (vented) £8 pads, non gen filters were as cheap as any others, just beware of typical probs when working on a front drive V6! rear bank of plugs are a pain to get to and I would imagine cam-belt is no fun! These cars really are not my thing (I got the mx as a trade in on my last SD1), but as a driver of large rear drive cars I could not help but enjoy the Mazda, very low drive position and V6 sound makes it feel like a larger coupe. On MX-5's, My Mother has had a 93 1.6 for about 6 years, drives it every day and other than oil changes and a pair of shocks its needed nothing and never let her down  |
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Jan 18, 2007 21:10:15 GMT
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Minor service at 6,000 major at 12,000. Timing belts 60,000. Pattern service parts are cheap enough.
Mechanical parts more expensive, 70 quid for a CV joint and I ended up having to do both sides in the time she had the car which was just over 2 years and around 30,000 mile iirc. Had to rebuild the rear brake callipers as well due to ineffective handbrake (disc with ratchet type) New caliper was around 3 fiddy.
MX-5`s are generally reliable if they are getting used, the problem is a lot of people leave them parked up and only use them occasionaly and they end up getting more problems as a result
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