put on my new grill badge!

 

Changed spark plugs for the first time at 45K. Was just a little anxious to see what the old plugs looked like after running about twice normal boost for the last 25K. That had me just a tad worried. The plugs looked perfect! All the electrode porcelain was the same light tan color clear to the bottom, plug gap was still spot on and heat discoloration was the same on all 4 plugs. Definitely looked used, but indicated the engine is running just as it's supposed to. One less thing to worry about, LoL. Another set of OEM NGK's goes in promptly.

 

put coilovers on yesterday

 

Thanks for the sympathy. I HATE when I do #%^& like that!! Drove her to work today, and nothing is amiss, so guess I dodged a bullet. I feel bad for her so now I have to buy her a present and give her a nice warm bath...

 

It's a great day to do that!

Here's what I put on today:

 

VERY nice and God bless you!!

 

I consider myself patriotic with a profound respect for the military, but if GoBadges didn't have these options, I probably would have got a shamrock or a swervy arrow or something. I'm really glad they had these two.

 

I filled up yesterday and got 101 miles out of one *candy corn* on the gas gauge!

 

They are great!!! Hey, I have the swervy (great word, BTW) curve, and the checkered one (got a checkered theme going on!).

Bend the Rules, Rule the Bends - MINI's do this the BEST!!!!

 

Picked Seamus up from the body shop, it feels good to drive him again. His roof now looks naked, he doesn't go in for his new replacement graphic until mid next week.

 

broke one of the clips off on my front grill because I was going to plasti-dip it. made me so mad. I guess I'm just going to have to get a new grill

 

I bought my new 06 convertible hyper blue mini. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Soon, a name.

 

Test-fitted the gauge mount I made last night.



The Vac/Boost gauge doesn't give you much wire to work with. I hope I can find my stash of old computer wiring to lengthen them....



Hopefully I'll find some time in the next couple weeks to get them installed for real.

C ya,
Dutch

 

Finally figured out what my vanity plate is going to be....Guess what?

3PDLMNE .....original right?

 

Sounds good to me, dood.

South Jersey, eh? Anywhere near my old stomping grounds near Lakehurst?

C ya,
Dutch

 

Surprised my wife with this. Had no idea if she'd "get it", but she was giggling for an hour.



Also, I installed my Craven Flexpod Fixie, Garmin 1490 and EcoRoute HD module. Power routed behind the panels to the center console. Works and looks great!

 

ordered my 19% pulley

 

Thank you, RJ Kimbell. Oxy Blue is divine. I had many happy miles in mine.

 

No matter where you go ... MINIs turn heads!

 

Wash and partial wax. The body shop says I have to wait another week or so to wax the new paint, so I only did the front.

I have water spots on the car from the hard water we have out here, and I don't know how to get them off....off to the detailing thread to figure it out.


Congrats on the laser blue/black mini. That's the one I was looking at...so beautiful.....

 

Thought I was going to jump into a Nice Detail, but couldn't find my Best of Show Wax, by the time I found it I was to tired and it got to be to late to really start on anything, it ended up being in my New PC Box, along with a Carnuba Wax Stick and 3 6" Red Foam Wax Pads!!

 

Busy day for the mini: new tires, followed by a late afternoon bath and some hydro:

 

Installed my new JCW front bumper and Craven platypus plate holder

...actually did this yesterday

 

Does window tinting and black wheels count? Windows tinted yesterday and black wheels about a week ago.