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Old 09-14-21, 11:47 AM
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Where are all the FD battery box covers?
Just curious. Seems to be the first thing missing. Didn't North American batteries fit?
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The tabs break or people buy replacement batteries that they don't fit with. It annoys me too.
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car showed up flooded, and so the first thing to come off was the battery box cover, and then it either got broken or went missing, or other
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Yep it's crazy. A lot of it is people running ill-fitting batteries, some are just broken, some are removed, put in the garage, then lost or broken.

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A tab broke when it was stepped on by my friend and the JB weld fix was terrible. I then swapped to the TurboJeff tray when I needed a new battery.
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They are not NLA and not expensive. Just buy a new one from Mazda .
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Originally Posted by Ceylon
They are not NLA and not expensive. Just buy a new one from Mazda .
Really. Odd I never see any on EBay. Somewhat surprised, as when I bought a new o-ring for my ATF filter the counter jockey said I got the last one in North America!

EDIT - How about that. 1993-1995 Mazda RX-7 Top Cover N3A1-18-593B | RealMazdaParts.com
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