Rest your hand on gear lever - oh no !

[Lazza]

....is your cooper not a cable change mate?

Probably but the gearboxes really are made out of cheese - cottage cheese at that! so I'm trying to look after it.

Agreed
There not the best, but BMW will not hold there hands up to it.
M-m

The early 5-speed, like in mine was the "Midalnd" box. The later 5-speed cars had a Getrag box which was much better which proved that they did know about the problem.

[doctorMX5]

Good subject!
I've also heard its not a good idea to drive along with the gear lever between your legs. But in 7 years of MX5 driving I've never had a problem!

[al_p]

truck gearstics vibrate a hell of a lot more than car ones so i wouldent worry about the possibility of death from a mx5 gearstick :P , our trucks are all lazy auto's now and the gearstick is replaced with an arm rest :)