[Miata] Prioritizing Winter Upgrades & Maintenance

[CHRISTOPHER ADAMS]

If you are used to the stock pads than the Ultimates are pretty dusty.
If you wax your wheels the dust will come off more easily. They are a
decent everyday pad, but so are the OEM pads and they dust much less. 

MT-90 will work fine at 7F. Now, if you live in a place that has long
cold winters like Minnesota, Ohio, Vermont or such then MTL might be the
better recommendation. Price wise, you are only talking about 3qts @
$8.75 for the tranny & diff. Redline's price is inline with other
synthetic gear oils.

Chris A.
'99 red Miata Lap-dog
'00 Tundra

>>> Dillon <dillon.boyer at gmail.com> 1/17/2007 9:21 AM >>>
How dusty are we talking about?  I've never had to deal with brake
dust
issues so I don't know how bad it is.  Will it make a mess out of my
10AE
alloys or can it be easily cleaned?



> If you're somewhere it doesn't get terribly cold in the winter,
Redline
> MT 90 might be better bet from the transmission.


It'll be 7 degrees F on Friday, which I consider to be terribly cold
;)

Folks on this list have also been swearing up and down about the GM
> Syncromech Friction Modified or some such for the 6 speeds.
>

I did some poking around on that.  It's described as a thicker fluid
that
shifts hard in the cold.  Is this true?  is it a good idea to run in
cold
climates when the tranny is not exhibiting any problems (it seems like
people switch to it to solve shifting issues)?