Hi, all!
first, thanks to all who offered suggestions on a ’93 White. I bought it! I
love it!
However, once I brought it home from the dealer it started chugging and
hesitating. We are having wet weather now; it was dry when I test drove the
thing. This car’s got 47,000 miles on her. Anyone else have such a problem?
I hope this isn’t an omen of things to come.
–Dwight
Burns DHB wrote:
> Hi, all!
> first, thanks to all who offered suggestions on a ’93 White. I bought it! I
> love it!
> However, once I brought it home from the dealer it started chugging and
> hesitating. We are having wet weather now; it was dry when I test drove the
> thing. This car’s got 47,000 miles on her. Anyone else have such a problem?
> I hope this isn’t an omen of things to come.
> –Dwight
Congrats on the new purchase. You’re gonna have a ton o’ fun; you better give
the wife the checkbook and not peer into modifications, or you’ll end up
spending $13,000+ on mods, like I did!
About the problem, it sounds like the plug wires — there’s an involved
discussion of it at http://www.miata.net in the Tech section.
This is not a involved or expensive problem to rectify. Good luck.
—
Nick
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burns…@aol.com (Burns DHB) writes:
>first, thanks to all who offered suggestions on a ’93 White. I bought
>it! I love it!
>However, once I brought it home from the dealer it started chugging
>and hesitating. We are having wet weather now; it was dry when I
>test drove the thing. This car’s got 47,000 miles on her. Anyone
>else have such a problem?
Two words: Plug wires.
If you hadn’t seen it go by already, the quirks of running the
wires close to the head (high heat), and the deep sockets (any
water at all in there, and it’s game over), and the double-fire
system (plugs fire 2x as often as necessary, to simplify the
coil set-up), all lead to plug wires that die every 30k miles
or so. Just get used to it. Small price to pay for everything
else you get.
IME, brand name doesn’t matter, so long as it’s not the bottom-line
el-cheapo model (gotta at least get properly molded plug ends). Some
have claimed that the most expensive sets do something or other better,
but it’s not like you’re gonna notice. Anything around $40+ for the
set should do fine.