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Number: 3772
From: "Sandy Block"
Date: Tue Oct 14, 2003  8:03 am
Subject: Re: New McLaren owner

Body:
Re: New McLaren owner

A silver-coated reflective thicker one from "Covercraft" ~ available
thru J.C. Whitney.
Best of luck, Jeff

S A N D Y

--- In ascmclaren@yahoogroups.com, "azmustangman2000"
<jjscheller@c...> wrote:
> Greetings All!
>
> I've been lurking around this message board for over a year now and
> have posted maybe two times. I've always enjoyed reading the huge
> amount of information posted on this board, but never had a vehicle
> to put it to good use until now.
>
> I just purchased a red '88 Manual with 88K on it. Definately not a
> show car, but not a beat up road pig either. Just used enough for
me
> to drive around, tinker with the engine and not feel guilty about
> reducing the value of a rare automobile should I want to bolt
> performance parts on it.
>
> I've spent the past few weeks going through all the messages posted
> before I joined and copied information relating to my vehicle into
a
> word document so hopefully I don't ask anything that has been
> answered several times before. I do however, have a couple of
> questions for the group.
>
> My car has a Ford horn pad, but it did include the McLaren horn pad
> in a box or parts. The first day I got it, I tried connecting the
> stock horn pad back in place and found out that it has a short. I
> did read that this results from the springy foam internally in the
> pad drying out and the metal contacts end up touching all the
time.
> Should I just bite the bullet and contact Hank about a new one? Or
> has anyone ever tried to repair their horn pad and if so what
> procedures should I go through to avoid damaging it?
>
> Second question is a recommendation for a good car cover. I live
in
> the scorching Arizona sun and am concerned about the sun eating
away
> the top. Anyone recommend a good cover for these cars?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Jeff