The CTBNL is back in the garage tonight after exactly a month in the car hospital.
Knew it was going to be soon because I got a call from Emmett’s yesterday, they wanted to know where the key for the aftermarket lug nuts was. This afternoon at about 2:30 they called again to say I could come pickup the car.
They had to put the car on a battery charger because it wouldn’t start for them yesterday (that’ll happen when The car sits for nearly a month.) So, today when we paid the tab they left it running outside for me and suggested we take for a bit of a drive on the way home.
When I got in the car the windows were filthy. Kind of to be expected because it was parked outside while waiting to be worked on. But not only was the outside dirty, but the inside was almost worse (how that happens I don’t want to know.)
We caravanned home and I left the car running while I cleaned the windows so we could go for a couple dozen mile trip.
It does seem like they wiped the back of the car clean of all the vaporized oil, but I don’t think they cleaned the undercarriage because when we did park in the garage after our short drive, you could smell burnt oil. I will give the Miata a bath tomorrow, but I’m not sure how I will get the chassis de-oiled.
Glad to hear that the Miata survived the rod hazard incident! I hated to think that an era might be coming to an end,,, No Miata in the Bogardus household was unthinkable.
To degrease the undercarriage, perhaps a trip through an automatic car wash with an undercarriage sprayer would do the trick.Or jack it up in the driveway, and spray the bottom with a solution of Simple Green or similar cleaner.