What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[Advancedynamix]

Pedro was pretty dirty under all that too. I suckered a girl into cleaning it all up for me. Hehe

[firebush357]

I just realized that your seatbelts are different, What is the deal with those? I'm going to take a guess a say they came out of an Escort? What kind of difficulty are we looking at to make that work?

[Advancedynamix]

Those are early model belts (87-89) or any year Canadian/European. They bolt right in. Pedro is an 88, so it came with those, but I swapped from brown to grey.

[firebush357]

Those are early model belts (87-89) or any year Canadian/European. They bolt right in. Pedro is an 88, so it came with those, but I swapped from brown to grey.

Oh okay, I have never been in any Festiva older than 1990, I'll have to keep an eye out for some. They look much more tidy and my driver side is stuck in the belted position for reasons I have yet to look into. I'm sure they are a couple pounds lighter too and much more convenient than me having to buckle 2 seatbelts all the time. I have also never been inside of an Aspire, would they have something similar that could be used? Or possibly I could see what it would take to use the old rear ones.

[Advancedynamix]

The Aspire does have the non autotragic belts. Not sure what needs to be done to use them. Start a seat belt thread in the custom interior and exterior section so we don't clutter this thread too much.

[robotrob]

Where did you score your space saver spare from? I've got a 175/70r13 spare that doesn't fit in the well lol

I know 5 door aspire seat belts don't fit 3 door festivas, it would be worth trying 3 door aspire belts, mine is an 87 and we never got automatic seat belts in Australia in ANY car

[bravekozak]

robot, I have an Aspire spare in my Festiva. I just cut a larger hole in a fibreboard junkyard cover and installed a plastic junkyard tire insert. When you cover it up, you can't even tell it's there.

[robotrob]

This is a NOS aspire spare

165/70r13... Definately does not fit in the well.. Maybe my Japanese built 87 Mazda is slightly different enough from your Korean built fords?

Lol maybe your aspire spare has really worn tread? Lol

[Advancedynamix]

A miata spare fits in just exactly like a festiva one (they are even that pale yellow color!)
Since Miatas are frequently turned into race cars, the spare tires are usually pretty easy to find. They also come with a nice vinyl cover to eliminate squeaks. Pretty trick.

Check the picture I posted above, you can see the yellow spare. That's a miata spare.

[bravekozak]

My spare is a low profile Yokohama.

[robotrob]

Is yours a Miata rim as well?

[Hatch]

VW Cirocco turbofan wheels powder coated KTM orange htd

[Greywolf]

GOT news... I went on a RAID today and bagged a load of "STUFF"

Some good - some GREAT! Here's the run down...

[bwilde]

can a new guy ask a ? thinking about buying 87 model that should have a carb . right what type of ignition? this would be my first one. need to know are they dependable? easy to fix. are parts easy to get?

[Advancedynamix]

VW Cirocco turbofan wheels powder coated KTM orange htd

Whoa! That looks great!