Got rid of my run-flats with the Continentals

 

Began the day fueling up at Starbucks before heading back home to Virginia. Logged well over 700 miles today.

 

My Mini's sit in the garage and driveway because I haven't put gas in Artemis and BB needs some work done to her (the classic).

 

tracked down aero kit parts and euro fender flairs for Alice

 

Made a pretty decent attempt to repair the damage Skittles, my neurotic whippet, did to the interior passenger door. (She "ate" it, really...) The repairs to the vinyl turned out ok, but I unintentionally melted the collar around the door pull handle with the embossing tool. No fixing that, so I am looking for replacment parts.

 

I drove form Key West, Florida, to Eatontown, NJ, back to KW and then another 50 miles north again before I realized there was a nail in my tire. I love my run flats, in the Keys, there are a lot of long empty streches of road between bridges. I would not feel safe without them. Why did you replace yours? Flo

 

Pics or it didn't happen!

 

Likin' those wheels!

 

Took pics of AZNOptics LED City Lights and Hoën Endurance Yellow Fog Lights... and pics of my GPS/phone setup. Seems to work OK Excuse the brake dust - I can't keep up.


20111125_001[r]--HoenEnduranceH8YellowFogLights_JCW_edited-1.jpg by walk0080, on Flickr


20111125_0011[r]--HoenEnduranceH8YellowFogLights_JCW_edited-1.jpg by walk0080, on Flickr




20111125_005[r]--ProClip_iPhone4Navi_JCW.JPG by walk0080, on Flickr

 

Looks awesome, walk!

 

Walk that red interior looks sweet!

 

Jealouse of G33KGUY's 700 miles of seat time in the MINI.

But I did swap out the clear bulbs in the doors with the amber that were in the sidemarkers.

 

Nice pic Albiecrazy!

If it helps, I put over over 500 miles on the MINI today finishing out my trip home today.

 

Blacked out the chrome under the windows.

 

Oh yeah - that helps. Nothing like MINI road trips.

 

That is one of the coolest pic's I have seen in a while.

 

Hey, thanks! It's locked in a dead heat over HERE if you care to participate...

 

Pic #4 looks like it could be semi-local to me. It's definitely somewhere in the southwest....

C ya,
Dutch

 

I do believe he is from AZ - great pic, too.

 

Busy day today - replaced the black part of the front bumper under the lower grille, the undercar "air dam", one wheel well liner and a section of wheel arch (all damaged when I ran through some water that was deeper than it looked. Then replaced the air filter, serpentine belt, and the power steering pump fan. Lastly, removed the rear coilovers and re-installed the factory shock/springs. Ran out of daylight before removing the front coilovers, so that (along with the manual transmission fluid swap) will have to wait for another day.

 

I participated.

You know who I voted for too!

 

Great pic and great road. I hope the photog tells us where it is.

 

Rotated my tires and while I had them off I changed my rear sway bar to the most aggressive setting...I feel bad for the next person that is in the passenger seat when I am going around a turn muahaha.



P.S. Voted for you Albie

 

That's awesome JohnW! I have my sway bar in the middle setting. How much tighter is the handling for you?

 

I couldn't tell you how it feels for your car since the R53 and R56 have their differences.

But for my car at least, there isn't a huge difference but I noticed that the sharper turns are well...sharper and the cars feels more quick to respond. It really whips around now.