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Replying to: davidg3 (Sep 15, 2005 6:46 pm) ~Colin
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Replying to: locke2c (Sep 16, 2005 9:42 am) -juice |
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Ear plugs are illegal for obvious reasons. The Miata roar is not all that bad, even in the oldest of series. You can hear the tunes coming out of the tail pipe. Yeah, the noise cancels out any hope of good stereo, but that is not what the car is for. Personally, a long trip in a Miata is anything over 300 miles, but I am older now. Some people drive and drive in these things all day. For commuting and freeway, there indeed are better options. For the fun factor it is the little car that can. I own a PT now, so I mainly cruise, though it takes the corners better than expected. The new Miata adds a lot of the stuff which people had to add on before, such as grill and roll bar. I hope it is a roll bar. It says style bar on the Internet. Hard to tell from diagrams how beefy the roll bar is. Will it keep from folding backwards on impact? All in all, function wise a good redo of the car. Style wise it won't compete with the Solstice, so they will lose some sales along that road. Oh well, don't shoot me, I am but the messenger. Loren
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Replying to: m1miata (Sep 16, 2005 12:45 pm) in all other states there is no law against earplugs. some do prohibit headphones. you can hear fine with earplugs, they only reduce extreme harshness. you would most definitely hear a car horn for example. ~Colin
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Replying to: locke2c (Sep 16, 2005 2:10 pm) -juice |
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Replying to: locke2c (Sep 16, 2005 2:10 pm) The ear plugs for shooting which only lock out the dangerous range of noise are pretty neat. I got a pair, and they seem to work when watching the cars on the track. I got the other more basic plug types too. I guess you can hear a car horn with those, but I don't know. Seems to me it would cut down on hearing a siren at a distance. Yeah, on the freeway the sirens don't carry that far anyway, and you go mainly on sight. The CHP still do use the sirens though. In town, I always roll the windows down a crack so I can hear sirens. OK, we are talking top down? It is amazing all the things one hears on the roads with a Miata - top down. Personally, I don't like the plugs. It seems to be something which some people like or dislike more than others. As far as honking at cars, it doesn't seem to help much most of the time. Now I know when in other states, they may not hear me anyway. Always best to see and be seen more than honking anyway, and scramble out of harms way when possible. When I had the Miata people in other vehicles, particularly trucks and SUVs many times seemed not to see me at all. I was invisible. That beep-beep toy horn didn't work when they started to cut you off. I just looked to bail out of the situation. Whew, some got close! I bet the new Miata, being third gen, is a lot more quiet now. Test drive it and see if the stereo can be heard. They are not quiet like a Caddy, but I bet more quiet than first gen. Loren |
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yes, I'm talking top down. at >60mph, there is a whole lot of wind noise and air pressure. ear plugs help and are not insanely dangerous nor illegal as your less than open-minded posts have been suggesting.  I'm glad you are speaking for a position of experience.  I shoot pistols for sport and competitively and I bring plain old foam earplugs with me for guests. There is nothing magical about them and the same plugs work well when on a motorcycle or in a convertible at speed. I do have some fancy Peltor earmuffs with noise cancellation and I know they now make noise cancelling in-ear style (earbud) headphones, but none of that is what I'm talking about. ~Colin
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Replying to: locke2c (Sep 17, 2005 9:16 am)  And the economy plugs work - yeap, they do. I got some at an industrial supply store. Those bright orange plugs, with a plastic string do work and are so cheap. Funny how the same plugs at a department store or drug store, become three times higher in price when packaged, but that's volume and packaging for ya. Hope you do not run into an emergency vehicle. Peltor muffs are good ones  Now how is the New Miata compared to the Solstice for noise and wind? In California there is a new law requiring the dealer to install front plate brackets, beginning in Oct. Looking at the Solstice I see no place to put the plate. And yes, I never had a plate on the front of the Miata. Born in 1996, that car never did have a plate on it, I guess. Never spotted an holes. Does the New MX-5 meet the German requirements for pedestrian safety? Car are going to be getting taller, and I guess less sharp up front? New laws in effect yet? Won't this limit cars sold within Germany, as well as, those made within Germany? Loren
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Replying to: m1miata (Sep 17, 2005 10:27 am) My '93 has one that comes out of the top of the lower grille opening and stick out to hold the plate. It used to aim upward, but any little bump would put dimples in my front bumper. So I flipped it.  By that I mean I moutned the bracket upside down, so now the plate sits a little lower but doesn't rub up against the bumper and cause those dimples. -juice |
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I see no place to put that license plate in the front. It will just look aweful. And by law, the dealer has to stick the darn thing on there. I bet they mount it to the bottom lip of the bumper where the screws coming out won't show, and you can easily rid the car of the hiddeous front plate. I like how they did it on the C5 Corvettes. If you had to put the plates on, it was right there incorporated into the front bumper design. When you did not add a plate the cover kept it slick looking. Loren
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