Bruno, Copenhagen - Denmark wrote:
> Don Q wrote:
>> Is there a consensus about the hard top?
>>
> No consensus from what I can read in the other posts.
>
>
>> On the one hand one can cite better weather protection in winter and
>> better defense against vandalism and theft if one has to park
>> outdoors/overnight.
>>
> As for weather protection my experience is that it must be pretty
> extreme else the soft top does fine.
>
> As for vandalism someone could take a knife to it but breaking in that
> way is more work than one should think (there is a youtube
> surveillance video somewhere).
>
> About two weeks after I bought my MX-5 someone keyed the whole right
> side and also burned the top with a cigaret. The cigaret left a small
> mark but did not melt through so the top is pretty tough.


In a previous life, I bought a Dodge Caravan. While busy negotiating the
price and arguing over this or that, I failed to notice it had wire wheel
covers. I wouldn't have wanted them. Anyway, the right two were stolen one
day and replaced. Some time later, the left two were stolen and replaced.
I was adviced to get wheel cover locks, which I did. The next time someone
tried to steal one and couldn't get it off, they destroyed it on the car and
keyed the whole side of the car.