That's awesome.
So how would you rate the reliability factor? Other than mods and routine maintenance, did you have any heavy repair bills?
My reliability has been...fair, probably worse than average for people with these cars. I didn't have heavy repair bills because I have a 100k mile extended warranty (max care, $0 deductible, 7 year), but would have spent a lot of $ if I hadn't, for repairs including:
- 2 transmissions so far (changed the clutch and flywheel at 42k miles when the 2nd tranny was being changed - they were worn, but not gone)
- air conditioning compressor (and maybe some associated components?)
- each windows' up/down mechanisms (one replaced, one repaired)
- front and rear hard top latches have gone out (STILL trying to get rear latches work finished)
- oil gaskets went out
- soft top replaced (issues with latches and wear on material - covered under original warranty) - had to replace twice, because the original replacement had a crack in the front bar
Other than the trannies, nothing stopped me from driving, just were inconveniences until fixed. Routine maintenance has been fairly pricey, between the frequent fluid changes (now change my own oil on it, but the oil and filter are expensive enough) and the tires (lucky to get 20k out of the rears and 30k out of the fronts, and that's if they don't get unrepairable punctures from nails, which I've had).
