{"id":12,"date":"2007-01-20T01:12:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T08:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-01-20T01:12:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T08:12:56","slug":"selling-my-miata-orig-posted-27102005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/20\/selling-my-miata-orig-posted-27102005\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling my Miata [Orig posted: 27\/10\/2005]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending a week without a car I have finally decided to sell my Miata even before my Elise arrives. I was hoping that I would be able to keep her around as a beater but I just cant justify the cost of insuring and maintaining two cars at the same time<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/us.i1.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/i\/mesg\/tsmileys2\/02.gif\" \/>. Here is the text of my Craigslist advert (http:\/\/www.craigslist.org\/eby\/car\/106716058.html)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I have finally decided to part with my much loved 99 Miata. I was hoping to keep her forever and have spared no expense in keeping her top condition. This car has given me great plaseure over the last 2.5 years and I hope that someone who enjoys miatas as much as me. Price $6500<\/p>\n<p>Specifications<\/p>\n<p>Make: Mazda<br \/>\nModel: Miata MX-5<br \/>\nYear: 1999<br \/>\nColor: Silver<br \/>\nTransmission: Manual 5 speed<br \/>\nMileage: 114k miles<br \/>\nInterior: Leather<br \/>\nPower windows<br \/>\nNardi Steering wheel<br \/>\nPioneer Premier MP3 CD player<br \/>\nPioneer speakers<br \/>\nRebuilt transmission (4k miles ago, slow bearing failure)<br \/>\nToyo T-1S tires<br \/>\nNew alternator<br \/>\n25-27 mpg<\/p>\n<p>History<\/p>\n<p>Second owner<br \/>\nSmogged in July this year<br \/>\nI have full records for the last 37k miles<br \/>\n60K service + timing belt was performed at 78k miles<br \/>\n30K service done at 106k  miles<br \/>\nOil changed every 3k miles<br \/>\nServied only at Mazda specialist mechanics &#8211; MazCare (Atlanta) &#038; P.R.Motorsport (Hayward)<br \/>\nMostly highway miles<br \/>\nNever tracked<br \/>\nCar is parked off street under a Covercraft &#8220;Noah&#8221; cover and waxed every few weeks<br \/>\nnon-smoking owner<\/p>\n<p>Roof patch<br \/>\nThere is a 14 inch rip (vandalism) in the roof that I patched myself using fishing line and liquid rubber. This has lasted more than 5 months during which I have driven and parked the car in rain with no leaks.<\/p>\n<p>Contact<br \/>\nRahul Nair<br \/>\n(510) XXX-XXXX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending a week without a car I have finally decided to sell my Miata even before my Elise arrives. I was hoping that I would be able to keep her around as a beater but I just cant justify the cost of insuring and maintaining two cars at the same time. Here is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqPFW-c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}