Bought my first MINI. Crazy change for me going to a car that could almost fit in my truck. I love her zip and zoom! She needs some detailing and a little love but I think were gonna have some fun!

2006 MCS that is bone stock...

 

Congrats. . I'm trying to find mine.

 

Heres the crazy thing... I wasn't even looking for a MINI and started searching for cars in a certain price range... A MINI came up and I remember driving my ex-gfs 5 years ago and it was so fun to drive and started searching for MINIs and found an S with a manual trans and bought her the next day... Crazy spent like a month trying to find a mustang and decided to go a completely different route and found my new Midnight Mistress...

 

Nice .. love the name. We have a Fiat 500 (FrankenStorm) in the family. I have always loved the MC's - especially the older ones. I figure it's about time to give this Fiat a run for it's money. That said, it looks like it'll spend a little more time in the shop than the Fiat does.

 

More time in the shop as in upgrades or repairing broken stuff?

 

Broken stuff. The theme I'm hearing seems to be that you will be in the shop quite often.

 

Welcome to the MINIacs!

It is like a disease, easy to get... hard to get rid of.

Motor on!

 

My last project was a 600hp F250 so this is literally the opposite spectrum and I'm loving it. When I planned on buying one I looked up all kinds of "mods" but now that I got her I think I'll enjoy her unmolested until I get bored. Plus with the miles I need to feel her out first before going nuts!

 

haha what an interesting transition! What made you want to switch things up? If you need some good detailing stuff you can check out what we offer here. I think detailing my car is routine therapy for me, haha! If you ever need any help with fixes/repairs be sure to check out our tech articles here or ask any questions you may have! This forum is a great resource and lots of people here have great knowledge about MINI's.

-Luccia

 

I am very familiar with the usefulness of forums for everything vehicle related. I'm going to doing a lot of driving and wanted something fuel effiecentish and fun to drive and I drove a mini long time ago and it was fun.

 

Nice, yes they're very efficient. Hope you enjoy it.

-Luccia

 

Welcome to Mini's, we have a pretty active Mini club here in Hampton Roads, just look us up on facebook, that's where all the info is passed out. We do such things as Dumars runs, group trips and monthly get togethers at pubs. Please feel free to join, its free and lots of fun.

 

Welcome.

Looks like a checkmate edition. Very nice and congrats.

 

Yes she is a checkmate edition. Apparently I came across a great deal in just one day or looking for a mini.

Edit: and to comment above about repairs I'm getting the used vehicle warranty so no worries. I'll actually be looking for stuff to fix lol! And it can't be worse then the vehicle that I just owned that multiple class action lawsuits against it. However I did find out that this girl is in the new recall for the passenger seat air bag sensor.

 

Welcome, great rare edition in 2005 , looks like someone removed the silver checker on the side.

Some info here and here



Yea, get the passenger seat done.

 

She's an 06, and maybe one of the other owners took it off... The first owner had her for a year and like 14k miles. Then the next guy bought her in 07 and had her till i bought her the other day.... Get the passenger seat done?

 

What would I search for on Facebook? That would be great! My wife and kid are about to move back to TN for the rest of my stent here in Hampton Roads so I will have NOTHING to do lol.

 

Welcome to the MINI!

 

Yea, most likely, you can still get the some of the items.

http://www.ecstuning.com/Search/SiteSearch/Checkmate/

Decal left and right checkmate: 51147168903 , 51147168904

http://www.ecstuning.com/Search/SiteSearch/ES79322__ES79323/


That's really low mileage for the first owner , must have been keep in the garage.

I know the checkmate was quite rare and I only see them at MINI meets.

Keep on to it.

 

Wow, this is crazy that they are that rare. I got her at 124k miles for $5600 I searched a little bit before buying her but just on the basics like typical problems and stuff like that. I don't know if I want to add the decals back. That may sound harsh but I'm not one for all that, but it is the way shes supposed to be... hm discussions... You mentioned passenger seat before? or did you mean side instead of seat? Do have a few questions, well one that's bugging the hell out of me.. There's an orange toggle switch up under the window/door lock control area in that small storage spot and I cant figure out what it goes to... Picture to come when I leave work.

 

Yep,

" recall for the passenger seat air bag sensor. " Yea, just that sensor pad repaired from MINI.

"There's an orange toggle switch up under the window/door lock control area in that small storage spot and I cant figure out what it goes to."


Since you have Rally Lights ( front grille mounted additional driving lights ) they might have mounted a toggle for wiring instead of using the factory set and button kit.

Thanks

 

That's what I was thinking. When I flipped the switch and checked I realized there were no bulbs and subsequently noticed there was no wiring going into the lights, I definitely chuckled.