A new owner with questions and photos.

[Gingerbread Man]

The girlfriends just brought a new MX5 after a dog wrote off the last one.

It's got a few things that need fixing up, but nothing too major.


A few questions;

The leather seats are looking a bit tired with the drivers seat bolster having a tear in it. What are the rough costs involved in having these either fixed or probably better, having them reupholstered?

The car has an imoblizer/ alarm(?), not quite sure what. I've put a picture up of the key fob below hoping that someone would recognise it and give us some insight into what each button does (one disables it we know that!) and whom it is made by as we she wouldn't mind having another fob for the spare key.
Also to the right of the steering wheel is an old 'touch to deactivate' type of imoblizer. Is this the old original one as it doesn't appeared to be used now?


Car.












To go with the above questions.

Seat.






Alarm.

Does this tax disc holder act as part of the alarm system (wire goes into it) or is it part of an old car phone system or similar?

Edited by Gingerbread Man on Monday 6th September 18:09

[Mazdamender]

Gingerbread Man said:

The girlfriends just brought a new MX5 after a dog wrote off the last one.

It's got a few things that need fixing up, but nothing too major.


A few questions;

The leather seats are looking a bit tired with the drivers seat bolster having a tear in it. What are the rough costs involved in having these either fixed or probably better, having them reupholstered?

The car has an imoblizer/ alarm(?), not quite sure what. I've put a picture up of the key fob below hoping that someone would recognise it and give us some insight into what each button does (one disables it we know that!) and whom it is made by as we she wouldn't mind having another fob for the spare key.
Also to the right of the steering wheel is an old 'touch to deactivate' type of imoblizer. Is this the old original one as it doesn't appeared to be used now?


Car.












To go with the above questions.

Seat.






Alarm.

Does this tax disc holder act as part of the alarm system (wire goes into it) or is it part of an old car phone system or similar?

I can not see the pic of the fob,but it would not of been a standard fit,with it being an import,extra fobs can be got easily, it does sound like you have a lot of dead wiring from some of the last owners,it's a shame that you are to far away from me to get my head in there,as for the seats i personally would sort the tear with some fishing line,and go to your local shoe shop for some leather dye for the bolster,but if you are thinking of re-covering them, I would say no,only because they have come out of an S-LTD,and are hard to get hold of,so I would sell them and get a cloth set for re-covering in black and red or just black leather to match the Mx/roadster better that you own,but it's a personal choice at the end of the day,but re-covering will cost a fair bit of wonka.
But if you must do anything,please remove the red brick hanging of the rear bumper skin,it's doing nothing towards how nice your roadster looks
Kind regards
Wayne

Edited by Mazdamender on Monday 6th September 18:07

Edited by Mazdamender on Monday 6th September 18:14

[Evangelion]

"A dog wrote off the last one" ??

Sorry, can't let that go. Full story please. Plus pictures.

[MrV]

All you will need to know about sorting those seats out here

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...



The dog story needs to be expanded though

[Gingerbread Man]

I've fixed the links to the last few pictures, so now hopefully someone will identify the key fob.

[MX-5 Lazza]

I did a very quick Google for GT Car Alarms and came up with this:
http://www.gtalarm.it/jsp-gt2005/eng/autohome.jsp

[Mazdamender]

With just having an alarm fob, it now looks like your imobiliser is redudant(socket closest to door)?
the middle red LED is for your alarm, the OE fog lamp switch on the left is front fogs? and the red square thing is your rear fog.
Contact GT alarms as posted before me for a new fob, there should be a number inside the fob that they should ask for, or try Maplins also, they maybe able to help.
A spare key can be got from your local Timpsons shoe repair/key cutting shop.
Regards
wayne

[Gingerbread Man]

Mazdamender said:

With just having an alarm fob, it now looks like your imobiliser is redudant(socket closest to door)?
the middle red LED is for your alarm, the OE fog lamp switch on the left is front fogs? and the red square thing is your rear fog.
Contact GT alarms as posted before me for a new fob, there should be a number inside the fob that they should ask for, or try Maplins also, they maybe able to help.
A spare key can be got from your local Timpsons shoe repair/key cutting shop.
Regards
wayne

Thanks for the reply.

So is the red rocker switch a common switch for the fogs or has this been added to the car? The car doesn't have any front fogs on it, do you think that it used to? There is some wiring behind the grill that goes to nothing as it happens.

I'll get on to GT Auto Alarms, thanks for the link people. We have a spare key, it's just a fob that's needed.

[Mazdamender]

Gingerbread Man said:

Mazdamender said:

With just having an alarm fob, it now looks like your imobiliser is redudant(socket closest to door)?
the middle red LED is for your alarm, the OE fog lamp switch on the left is front fogs? and the red square thing is your rear fog.
Contact GT alarms as posted before me for a new fob, there should be a number inside the fob that they should ask for, or try Maplins also, they maybe able to help.
A spare key can be got from your local Timpsons shoe repair/key cutting shop.
Regards
wayne

Thanks for the reply.

So is the red rocker switch a common switch for the fogs or has this been added to the car? The car doesn't have any front fogs on it, do you think that it used to? There is some wiring behind the grill that goes to nothing as it happens.

I'll get on to GT Auto Alarms, thanks for the link people. We have a spare key, it's just a fob that's needed.

It is an aftermarket rear fog lamp switch,and is not stanard,if the wires are in the grill,just add lights,and they should work?

[Gingerbread Man]

Mazdamender said:

Gingerbread Man said:

Mazdamender said:

With just having an alarm fob, it now looks like your imobiliser is redudant(socket closest to door)?
the middle red LED is for your alarm, the OE fog lamp switch on the left is front fogs? and the red square thing is your rear fog.
Contact GT alarms as posted before me for a new fob, there should be a number inside the fob that they should ask for, or try Maplins also, they maybe able to help.
A spare key can be got from your local Timpsons shoe repair/key cutting shop.
Regards
wayne

Thanks for the reply.

So is the red rocker switch a common switch for the fogs or has this been added to the car? The car doesn't have any front fogs on it, do you think that it used to? There is some wiring behind the grill that goes to nothing as it happens.

I'll get on to GT Auto Alarms, thanks for the link people. We have a spare key, it's just a fob that's needed.

It is an aftermarket rear fog lamp switch,and is not stanard,if the wires are in the grill,just add lights,and they should work?

I'll try to get a better idea of the wires hanging down at the grill opening area. Just something I've noticed and not taken too much interest in. I've seen MK1's with fog lights in front. Are these all add ons or were some specced with them?

[Mazdamender]

Add ons,you can get(or you could) a OE front fog lamp loom and lights + switch that were plug and play items for the Mk 1,but even those never came as a standard fitting.
If you have the OE loom on her(which it sounds like),then it's happy days,and just fit a pair of lamps.

[Gingerbread Man]

For those of you who wanted to know about the dog..........woof woof.

The girlfriend was on her way to a job interview one morning. She was driving her first MX5 in a moving cue of traffic stuck behind a bus (at ~50MPH). It's quite an open road going between villages, the road starts to pass a few houses along one side of the road, the other side is open fields with a grass verge separating the two.

This is where the TV re-enactment would switch to the other player in the story. A woman and her (unleashed) dog are coming home from their morning walk across the fields and start walking along the grass verge. Nearly home, all that separates the dog and it's owner from their home is the road.

So girlfriend driving along in moving cue. Broom broom.

Unleashed dog spots his other owner (the husband) and darts across the road to see him after a lovely morning walk.

BUT....what is this. A busy road in between the dog and it's other owner. Surely bad things will happen.

Anyway, it's a dog, not brilliantly clever. So it darts across into the road heading for it's owner and humble abode.

Now this is where my girlfriend first met the said dog. When it squeezed itself between two moving cars and into my girlfriends MX5's front end. Bang (I guess it went)....she just said it was more of a thud....so thud it went alerting the owners neighbour sitting inside her house.

Car written off after the dog creased the front end in and damaged the chassis in the engine bay. One insurance claim later and we arrive with the above car on our drive.

Girlfriend 1 - Dog 0




Oh, she got the job though.

[jay140285]

I guess the dog was deceased.

Nice looking MK1 by the way.