BAM! Mr. Tarrou did you clean out the filters in your nd
Miata for the convertible and the footwells are still filling up water
well that means you need to clear out the drains and though I made a note in
my previous video that I'll link in the description about how to clean out your
filters let's make sure that you know where the access hole is or maybe the
only one I found that I could actually get something down to push out the
debris and clear out the drains we're going to take out the window so that
would be the door so we're going to move this seat up with the seat up we're
going to come through here and take out these push pins this is one of them
let's see where else we got some here and here and that might be it so we're
going to lift this up and out so we've got the seat up the door sill and that
just that one single panel out here is the drain for your convertible top feeds
down into the filter basket which is very hard to see but it's right there
with a little bit of foam is I showed how to remove that and clean it on my
previous video and did not discover this when I made my first video but this is
actually your drain moving in horizontal and it terminates before it goes 90
degrees down into the drain of your car and I've tried to clear this drain from
underneath the car and it is I could not find a good access older I'm gonna pull
some of the seat belt out and you see that little hole right there that is the
end of the plastic duct or the plastic drain moving horizontally from the side
of the car where the filter box is that goes down to the bottom of the car that
is the hole that you want to fish a stiff crafting wire down or something
and turn the wire as you push it down that hole and if it works
you hopefully like it did for me you're going to clear that drain out and have
your car stop filling with water so again we have that filter box there sort
of there it's a bit out of screen there's the drain ducting doing
underneath the seat belt there is an access hole right there now there may
very will be something better but this is what I used my wife's 18 gauge
crafting wire and we're going to just simply pull some of this out with a
slight Bend on the wire we're gonna get this to fish down the hole and it's
gonna take a couple of tries switch hands here so I can hold the phone and
use my right hand since I'm right handed
and it'll take some tries but if you get them to fly it enough Bend on that wire
it will eventually there goes just give it a couple tries keep moving it around
it will fish down that hole and you're going to need to I can't do this with
one hand but you're going to need to spin this wire and it will eventually
fish down this hole that is the hole that I got the wire down and spun around
as I got it down the hole to eventually clear out my drain now as you're trying
to fish this wire down you have to get past this plastic tray which is your
drain tray underneath the convertible top and then the actual drain itself is
you know it's a plastic ductwork so it's going to have this access on the top but
there's also somewhere inside there of course an opening for it to drain down
to the cars so you're trying to get this wire past two layers of plastic on the
top and get it through the hole in the bottom of the strain you're going to
want a little bit of curve to this wire kind of curving down because you have to
get underneath this seatbelt roll and to get it go straight down the hole and
then what I did with this 18 gauge and wire is I'm kind of I can't again I
don't have three hands but I've got my hand down here on the wire just above
the hole and I'm turning this role of Y or trying to get you know the wire to
rotate and get past anything that it's being obstructed by as it goes down the
drain you know the wires just got a sharp cut
on it from the wire cutters I don't know why Miyata made this or Mazda made this
so complicated to try and get to this access drain but if you try and take out
your filter box in the foam and just you know push down a wire like you see I
think with the NC or nd Miatas it's not going to happen because it makes a
90-degree Bend goes whatever this is six seven eight inches underneath the seat
belt and then takes the right-hand turn and goes down to the car so that was the
only way that I could find to get this drain clear I tried accessing it from
their bottom of the car driving it up on ramps and finding some way to access
from the bottom it did not work maybe it will for you but this is what worked for
me I'm mr. Tarrou BAM go clean out those drains
you