Damn I wish I knew I want to get the upper control arms but, the come with the lowers also which I already have.

 

5-30 Castrol Syntec Oil change as I type this. The bolt got stripped so I brought it to the place i bought it to get it off. They offered to do it all for free. Great guys!

Shell Blue Synthetic 5-40 will start in summer!

-B

 

Ordered the Craven Scangauge mount and universal phone mount.

Searching for ways to fix the holes I poked in my tach face. :(

 

Is it in the clear plastic, or the background?
Junkyard? Or aftermarket background, or if it's the clear bit, some lexan from lowes?...

 

PIcking up Boris for the weekend from the audio shop... all of his interior has been stripped out.... he is NEKKID!

 

Nows the time to slap in sound deadening material! GTmat is great IMO! I put it in most of my mini, it's so quiet now, almost like a Mercedes or something!

 

washed it




and installed BSH Catch can

 

yesterday, i slapped some vinyl on my gas cap. its only "semi" chrome now

 

You have a chrome corn cob on your gas cap now. :P

 

Haha. Well, I was hoping it would kinda look like the door handle more than corn

 

I got my oil changed on my 2005 MCS for the first time today (got my MINI a little over a week ago). I actually went to my Toyota dealership because they do free oil changes for military. Only problem was they couldn't get the oil filter off. I guess I will have to actually go to the MINI dealership and have the filter replaced. But still, I got 5 quarts of 5w-30 synthetic oil for free!

 

I ordered some parts for my Mini yesterday, excited to start getting it looking good again for the spring :-D

Ordered 2 new mirror caps which will be sprayed with the same color I'll be spraying my summer wheels. Ordered a drivers side Euro blind spot mirror now that I finally found one (thank goodness for ECS now carrying Mini stuff, I've had the blind spot/asphrical mirrors on my last 4 cars and love them, I've found the Mini has a bad blind spot and I kept wishing I'd find one of those mirrors). I also ordered a replacement license plate bulb lens to replace the one I cracked when I installed my LED lights the other week... doh! Oh yea, and I ordered some special paint to have my car painted, can't wait :-D

 

The background. Fortunately, the screws were not long enough to hit the plastic.

I will start looking at junkyards. I've already looked at aftermarket faces; most don't match the stock ones so I'd have to do the tach and speedo, and most of those are rather spendy...

If nothing else, if I can open the tach up far enough I can push the displaced material back into place again. Maybe a little tape on the back or something. Mostly to keep the red-orange illumination from showing up as a dot.

Argh.

 

hit the half way mark on my breakin miles and still been good about keeping her under 5K rpms ok, i lied. i went up to 5k once today only but after she was all warmed up.

still amazes me how fast this little baby can get from zero to way above the speedlimit..
need to do a wash on her this weekend after i get back from the farm

 

Not sure if you've tried eBay but just from random browsing of used parts, I've come across a decent amount of tachs in pretty good cosmetic condition.

 

I love how you threw this in at the end like it was an after thought! Do we have to wait to see the special paint or can you describe it for us?

 

^^^This^^^ is a project I want to undertake after I have had my MINI for awhile!

 

oh, you'll have to wait, it's a surprise I'm hoping to have it all done in the next 3 or 4 weeks so I'm guessing it should be all ready for the Mini show at Bethpage State Park which I think is in early May (I'll also be going to a show in CT next weekend, Dubs on Defrost, but I'll have my same old boring paint ).

 

Just got my 3in non cat down pipe! Next comes full 3in no resonator no cat magna flow exhaust 4in tips! :-)

 

Drove it then locked the key in it......... :((((((

 

Oh my!!!

You're going to wake up the entire city!

 

How is that possible even without comfort access I can not lock my key in the car? My MINI will not lock with the fob inside the car. I tried, I took my spare set and threw them in there and locked the car and it would immediately unlock.

 

Just got back from San Fran, feels good to drive my MINI again.

The night before I left I took off my DDM intake(went back to stock), and now she runs a lot better especially with the low end, just cruising at 80+mph:-).

 

 

Yep, well if it can happen it will certainly be to me!! lol lol I laid the key in the back after unloading some items & closed the hatch and well.......it locked. Trust me, it locked.....it was a long 3 hrs.