What did you do to your mini today?
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Took Blue into the wilds of mid-northern VT to go skiing. Blue has the best snow tires and, for a dusting to an inch or so of snow, they are probably better than the BF Goodrich KOs that are on our Wrangler. On the way home, there was a white-out squall that put them to the test and they did well. As well as any SUV or 4WD PU. And the frostheaves put the Koni FSDs to the test. The ride is great with those, but some of those bumps did send the suspension to its ends....
Today Blue got a hot water bath to wash the salt off.
Smokey got taken out on the dry roads and highway to get it good and warmed up, and rub the rust off the rotors before being put back away on the battery tender to await the next snow storm and deep freeze sets in next week.
Today Blue got a hot water bath to wash the salt off.
Smokey got taken out on the dry roads and highway to get it good and warmed up, and rub the rust off the rotors before being put back away on the battery tender to await the next snow storm and deep freeze sets in next week.
Last edited by Eddie07S; 01-26-2019 at 12:22 PM. Reason: correct typo
Replaced trim color
Went from Cardinal Red to 632 Cyan (blue) trim color. Had too many Subaru's gunning their engines next to me at stop lights. Had to many people wanting to tell me their MINI stories in the parking lot...
Sterling silver logos, after all, I am in the land of silver and turquoise.
Sterling silver logos, after all, I am in the land of silver and turquoise.
Po341, po342
Gave her an oil change today, Mobil1 5W30, Wix filter... Check engine light came on, po341,342... cleared the code, came back on after starting it to leave the store.... ut oh... camshaft sensor?..... going to look into it tomorrow.... I replaced the VVT solenoid for the exhaust a couple of months ago (PO015) , but not the intake.... related???
Went from Cardinal Red to 632 Cyan (blue) trim color. Had too many Subaru's gunning their engines next to me at stop lights. Had to many people wanting to tell me their MINI stories in the parking lot...
Sterling silver logos, after all, I am in the land of silver and turquoise.
Sterling silver logos, after all, I am in the land of silver and turquoise.
Nice looks like mulgari kind of.
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#211 ... on the way to Dinner (with two couples of fellow MINIacs) last night after work the "Service Engine Soon" popped on (most likely that stupid vacuum line under the inter-cooler, AGAIN) but OK .... then on my drive home from the restaurant my "Brake Pad" warning light came on .... I was thinking but I just serviced the Brakes ... Oh, no ... that was 18 months and three race tracks ago ... oops!
Oh, Well and it is only 450 miles away from an oil service anyway.
Motor On!
Oh, Well and it is only 450 miles away from an oil service anyway.
Motor On!
I got them on Ebay. Here is a link to them. I paid 179.00 for them. Takes about 2 weeks for him to make them. Plus he has loads of different color options. Not hard at all to install. You will have to take the seats out to install. Just make sure you unhook you battery before removal. You have to unhook the air bag plug along with heated seats if you have this option. Took about an hour to do everything
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F18 0801048316
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F18 0801048316
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ECSTuning (02-12-2019)
I love coming to this thread every few days just to see what others are up to...
My Friday project:
Late last week I removed the decals from the hood. They were faded and chipped and just made the whole car look sad. It was a royal PITA, and I finally had to break out the industrial strength 3M adhesive removed but I finally got things cleaned up.
Today I finally got back to the project. I clayed, polished, and waxed the whole car. The paint looks like new, with the exception of a defective spot of clear coat near the surround decal.
I used alcohol to remove the wax where the decals were placed and used soapy water to float them into place. Then put another coat of wax around them. A heat gun turned out to be my best friend when getting the decals to lay flat around curves. I also added rally name tags on the rear windows. Not sure how I feel about those yet.
Anyway, here is the finished product:
Finally, all cleaned up and ready to go...
My Friday project:
Late last week I removed the decals from the hood. They were faded and chipped and just made the whole car look sad. It was a royal PITA, and I finally had to break out the industrial strength 3M adhesive removed but I finally got things cleaned up.
Today I finally got back to the project. I clayed, polished, and waxed the whole car. The paint looks like new, with the exception of a defective spot of clear coat near the surround decal.
I used alcohol to remove the wax where the decals were placed and used soapy water to float them into place. Then put another coat of wax around them. A heat gun turned out to be my best friend when getting the decals to lay flat around curves. I also added rally name tags on the rear windows. Not sure how I feel about those yet.
Anyway, here is the finished product:
Finally, all cleaned up and ready to go...
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PowerOn (02-12-2019)
I still have to remove the adhesive from the license plate surround area. I still have to apply that decal.