Bought my first Mk1 Eunos, few niggles

[pilchard8]

A week into my mx-5 ownership, enjoying it so far and took into a specialist at the weekend. Bought it for 1k as fun runaround til I decide what I want next year.

Found out, rear spring needs replacing, dust covers and handbrake cable needs sorting. Fixed the electric window while I was there and mechnically its fine. No rust/sills are fine, could have been alot worse.

Just looking at parts, seems cheap enough to do.

A few questions

Wheres best place to buy cheap parts from? Looked at mx5parts so far.
Paintwork is not great, whats the paint code on a silver eunos?
Found out this morning the softtop is leaking on the passenger side, any fixes for this?

Thanks

[Planet Claire]

Suggestions can be found in this link:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Jack Smith Trimmers in Swansea is one of the best and cheapest maker and fitter of mohair hoods - may still be cheaper if you factor in the petrol for the round trip.

Another suggestion for spare parts is MX5Heaven, who are not listed on there.

[pilchard8]

I will take a look at the sites thanks, anywhere for paintcodes?

[Planet Claire]

Try this
http://www.mx5oc.co.uk/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&...

[Planet Claire]

http://www.miata.net/gallery/na.html

This may help with the naming of your colour, although it is an American site so they sometimes do have different names.