Miata Mailing List: July 1995, Message #17



     


   From: mgorelick@aas.com (Marc Gorelick)
Subject: Top on/Top off ratio (Was: OBD-II)
   Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 23:56:03 -0400

At 06:06 PM 6/29/95 -0400, Eric Rowland wrote:
>Greg Bassett  wrote:
>>Yeah, but in TEXAS:
>>       The ratio of top-on to topless days is higher
>>        The mosquitoes are smaller than the Miata.
>
>You're bragging about having a higher top-on to topless days ratio??  Sorry
>Greg, but unless you're a closet Del Sol owner :-) you probably want to have
>a 1) LOWER ratio of top on to topless or 2) Higher ratio of topless to top-on
>days.  I.E. in CA we have a good chance of 315:60 or a topless to top on
>ratio of  5.25 (alternatively, a top on to topless ratio of 0.16)

I think that here in Michigan, the ratio of top-down to top-up
days would be something like 75:290. Of course, for those of us
who store our playthings in the winter, you can deduct the 180
days where the car is stored, leaving a "mere" 75:110 ratio.

I figure that the 110 days between May and October account
for the 60 days of rain and the 35 days of 85+ degrees and 85%
humidity that makes putting the top down the surest way to 
heat stroke! You can put half those days back if you only want to
drive the car from 7pm to 7am. The other 15 days are for early
May and late October when it's too damn cold to put the top down
because the owners manual tells you not to do it at below 50F.

I thought our skeeters were big here 'til I took a trip out to 
the DC/Maryland area. They have some of the biggest damn bugs
I have ever seen there. Ours may be numerous, but theirs are
registered with the FAA!
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