So it's been a couple months since my last update. Wife has nixed the idea of a 3rd car, so I did a lot of soul searching because I've enjoyed this car so much. Most of the enjoyment however was while I was in California. With the winters sucking, and the weather I find myself rarely driving top down. In addition, the roads in my area are boring at best. This coming week assuming the dealership will meet my price, I'll be trading in the roadster. :sigh: I've chosen a 2014 Titanium flash Mazda 3s Grand touring. It would've happened earlier, but the car was still on the boat, when I decided what color combo I wanted. If they can't meet my price for the 3 and the trade in value for the Miata, then I'll deal with the Miata for another winter, and will likely spend the 900 bucks on snow tires/mounting/balancing etc.
I've spent about 8 hours returning the car to stock, removing lighting, badging, replacing the broken/modified interior panels. Removed the short shifter, which is going to JonB. The springs will remain on the car, as well as the rx8 sways. removing the chrome vinyl has proven to be problematic, not sure how I'm going to get it off at this point, but I've got a few days to think of something. I've got a set of Mazdaspeed 6 wheels that will go on the Miata for trade in, so I can keep the Traklites, which will be powdercoated for the 3.
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Originally Posted by Grumpy
