🔴 MOST OF AMERIDAN'S BLOG ARTICLES ARE APPLICABLE TO THE MAZDA MX-5 (ND) AS WELL
compilation of articles authored by madfiat [edited by ameridan] Thanks to the method HERE MX-5 Miata Forum View Single Post [Guide] ND1/ND2 Touchscreen in motion on latest FW, No hardware required , we are now able to run any script on the CMU even with the locked versions. This includes the MazdaToFiatV70AIO Continue reading
Seems Victor has been quite busy helping others in the land down under, upgrading their stereos to accommodate CarPlay/Android Auto 😉Although I haven t added any new blog posts this year, I sure have enjoyed driving my trouble-free 124 Spider for almost nine years already.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I happened to catch jumperthumper s post in the Miata forum regarding a product offering available from Mikstore Car Accessories as a replacement switch bezel (LHD models only), or as a discreet sticker module, shown below affixed to his visor (rather than the intended windshield location). Power and CANbus data is provided via the OBDII port. Continue reading
For those with the 3 radio. or those considering replacing the 7 radio with an Android headunit, there may be a module available that will allow you to communicate on the CANbus network to display/change your personalization settings via a smartphone app (Bluetooth between the module and your Android or Apple mobile device). Following are Continue reading
Happy New Year everyone!! CXXIV posted on the Fiat 124 Forum today, something that I was not aware of a Mopar belly pan that apparently supercedes Mazda s belly pan, and was introduced for the MT Abarth 124 Spiders sometime during MY 2018 2017, and incorporates a NACA duct that I imagine helps in cooling Continue reading
A database update dated January 2022 is finally available after a 4-year lapse!(probably the last one we ll get) When playing music on your Infotainment Center, you may notice the album covers that are displayed corresponding to the current song. This is one of the features of the Gracenote® database stored in memory. The initial Continue reading
Pixar released the 1st Cars movie (the best one of the trio, according to both of my grandsons) in 2006, ten years before our 124 Spiders debuted. Lightning McQueen was named after Glenn McQueen (not Steve McQueen), who was a supervising animator at Pixar when he died of melanoma in 2001. Glenn had worked on Continue reading
If anyone happens to find water residing in their floor carpeting, I would first suspect the drain filters for the convertible top well needing to be cleaned, but a second unlikely possibility is a clogged/pinched drain hose for the HVAC evaporator. I couldn t find out anything about this in either the MX-5 of 124 Spider Continue reading
Today, I learned that the author of the online Mazda MX-5 shop manual has updated the site he hosts, so that flash is no longer required to view the wiring diagram images, so I again fixed the links to that great resource. If you are going to use that resource, you need do no more. Continue reading