Hiya from Calgary!
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Hiya from Calgary!
I just bought my first Mini, making a full three generations in my family that now own them. Mine's a 2005 MCS, bought with just 80k km. My grandparents, loooooongtime BMW folks (off-the-lot 2002s and 320s, E28s, E46s, etc.), also out here in the west, have a 2004 MC. My parents, now living in England, have a 2007 MC: now that they've shuffled off all us kids, they bought their first fun car since a BRG 1973 MGB-GT.
I'm happy to have joined the club. This is my first real car - I've owned two shiiiiitttty Jettas, a super-awesome-o 1994 4-Runner, a 1992 Previa, and a 1982 528e - and I love it. I'm a bike mechanic (by hobby, profession, and excepting undergraduate and graduate school, education), and quite a good one at that, but I'd always said I had no interest in owning a fast car, let alone maintaining or working on one.
Well, I've been bitten. Since buying the thing a month ago, I've already sunk into it what for me is a small fortune, and have worked on it very nearly every weekend... So far I haven't done much: K&N cold air intake, which I'm not super pleased with over stock; NGK plugs and wires; Yokohama S-Roads on factory 17x7s, in addition to the excellent Nokian snow tires on factory rims that it came with; and a home-made rear-seat delete that worked out absolutely perfectly (pics to follow, on another forum) and provided a bunch of storage space where there used to be at least one utterly useless rear seat. (I'm 6'4".) To come are stress bars front (pretty) and rear (probably useless, but what the heck?); strut support rails; MSD coil pack; factory roof rack (bikes!); Bavarian Autosport lowering springs, probably not to be installed until after winter (questions to follow, on another forum...); and eBay special leather shift and brake boots to replace ones destroyed by skis, as best I can tell.
Expect me to be hanging around the board a fair amount: I've got loads of good tools and mechanical know-how, but almost none of it applies to cars!
I'm happy to have joined the club. This is my first real car - I've owned two shiiiiitttty Jettas, a super-awesome-o 1994 4-Runner, a 1992 Previa, and a 1982 528e - and I love it. I'm a bike mechanic (by hobby, profession, and excepting undergraduate and graduate school, education), and quite a good one at that, but I'd always said I had no interest in owning a fast car, let alone maintaining or working on one.
Well, I've been bitten. Since buying the thing a month ago, I've already sunk into it what for me is a small fortune, and have worked on it very nearly every weekend... So far I haven't done much: K&N cold air intake, which I'm not super pleased with over stock; NGK plugs and wires; Yokohama S-Roads on factory 17x7s, in addition to the excellent Nokian snow tires on factory rims that it came with; and a home-made rear-seat delete that worked out absolutely perfectly (pics to follow, on another forum) and provided a bunch of storage space where there used to be at least one utterly useless rear seat. (I'm 6'4".) To come are stress bars front (pretty) and rear (probably useless, but what the heck?); strut support rails; MSD coil pack; factory roof rack (bikes!); Bavarian Autosport lowering springs, probably not to be installed until after winter (questions to follow, on another forum...); and eBay special leather shift and brake boots to replace ones destroyed by skis, as best I can tell.
Expect me to be hanging around the board a fair amount: I've got loads of good tools and mechanical know-how, but almost none of it applies to cars!
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