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If I can save the headaches I went through for a fellow Reatta owner, then I feel like I'm positively contributing to the community! An alternative solution that many people have resorted to are killswitches! It's so common that I see Reattas all the time for sale with the switches already installed. Happy to help

So I'm back with another update: the 88 sat for exaclty one month without being turned on, and she started right up! Very happy with this battery and very much worth the extra money. Will post any future updates here.

Thanks for the responses! I was afraid to even put air into these tires, although they'd probably take 10 psi. I hate to pitch them, but I cannot imagine trying to drive on them. This car has never been painted. The mirrors are black as original, although they do not show well in the pictures I posted. Thanks again! Tim

Well I'll be! My 90 has had similar battery problems. I had no idea it was a common issue with these cars. I'm gonna try the new battery , Thanks for the info!

You can also turn individual injectors on and off from the drivers seat and I think you can cycle the three valves in the EGR. It has been a while since I have done so, but once warmed up with a decent idle, pull the connector on the IAC to prevent it from modifying the idle when you check cylinder balance. It should make the effect on idle more apparent as a cylinder is dropped.

I know that photo is upright relative to the manual but is almost upside down from the installed position. I totally agree to get into diagnostics and simply check the TPS for proper setting and operation.

It is funny we miss the obvious things. I think it is a good idea that expands upon another good idea: this thread. I am assuming you are suggesting a personal version of this thread?

I think that is a great idea and I encourage you to do it. I might even start one for my Reatta. I really like this thread that Dave started. It is the most popular thread on ROJ but things do get lost in it easily and are hard to find later. Information you save in your own thread like you suggested would be much easier for you to find when you need it. It's funny that the name "Reatta Owners Journal" inspired you to create your own thread. This website was started in a similar way. I have always kept a journal on my home computer of unique maintenance and repair procedures for cars I own. When I bought my Reatta and found the AACA site, I quickly realized that there are a lot things unique to the Reatta that all Reatta owners should know to properly maintain their cars. So instead of putting the information I normally saved on my computer I created this website in 2007 and started putting the information here organized in a way that other Reatta owners could easily find it. I knew that a lot of the information I put on here would be based on posts on the AACA site so asked them for, and was given, permission to copy posts from that website and save them here as How-to guides. Later on I added this forum because I was getting so many emails each day from people with questions about their Reatta. It is much easier to answer questions here in the forum so now I just direct people who send me emails here to the forum to get answers to their questions instead of exchanging emails. This is probably more information than you were looking for but now you know the story of how ROJ got started.

So I had this idea inspired by the name of this site, "Reatta Owner's Journal." The idea was to maintain a thread that is a journal of my Reatta Ownership, so kind of a mix of maintenance log and "what did you do to your reatta today" specifically for my reatta all in one place. What do you all think? Good idea? Bad idea? Honest opinions welcome.