The Newer Miatas, 1999 and up, have this kind of bump in the middle of the trunk and it would be one feature I’d like to change back to the nice flat shape of the original. You could cover the bump up with a rear lip spoiler, but the OEM unit looked too tacked on for me to consider it. I was resigned to learn to live with this slight blemish, think Cindy Crawford’s beauty mark, until today.
Someone on the Miata.net Forums is selling his car and posted a question about how much it might be worth. I wasn’t interested in the car, but I was interested in his rear lip spoiler. When I asked him where he got it, he said off of ebay from SpoilerDepot. He said as a matter of fact there is an auction for one now and gave me the link.
When I went to the auction the spoiler shown does not look like the one he has. His lays more horizontal and there is no cutout for the 3rd brake light.
Auction link: http://tinyurl.com/8qwyv
Forum post with his pictures link: http://tinyurl.com/7a953
I really like the one he has more than the one shown on ebay. Did he buy his from you? Was there a redesign?
Above is pretty much verbatim what I emailed to customer service at SpoilerDepot. Here is the answer I got:
WE HAVE TWO SPOILERS AVAILABLE FOR THE MIATA PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT SPOILERDEPOT.COM TO SEE BOTH OF THE PICTURES
Just with that reply I am tempted to forget the whole thing. Did they really read my email? I said lip spoiler. I referenced their auction for a lip spoiler. Their other design is a wing spoiler. AN ANSWER IN ALL CAPS? I may call their 800 number tomorrow and see if I can talk to a person.
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