As the name implies, sometime soon the rampant gekko will get a custom graphic on the roof of a gekko in the style of the old english flag lions...

 

I want to eventually get some blue puddle lights! They look so sweet, but I'm not very good at wiring....

-Cody

 

you can just tap it to the foot well lamps. were puddle lights the
one that goes on the door, or was it the ones that go below the
sideskirts? i keep forgetting.

 

There are both kinds. I one's I want, are the ones that go into the door handle and light up the door "cup" part.

http://www.mini2.com/forum/exterior/...=puddle+lights
-Cody

 

...now I've seen everything?:impatient But it can be justified as a safety feature.

 

I doubt you've seen everything! lol. There's more, don't worry...

http://www.mini2.com/forum/exterior/...=puddle+lights
http://www.mini2.com/forum/interior-...=puddle+lights
-Cody

 

Here's my reaction to the big $$ homelink solution in the rearview. Got my Homelink for 50 bucks off of my favorite online auction site. A couple of hours on a Sunday & it was looking great next to the sunroof switch. Not sure I've seen this one yet...

 

2 new meifications.

1. I wrapped my downtubes in leather

2. I wedged a doumbec (middle eastern drum) between the seats so that I can play it to the stereo at stoplights and in traffic - possibly my favorite meification ever.

 

doumbec mod! Brilliant!

 

MINITOR, I think between the longhorns on the dash and now the doumbec, you've got the most unique MINI ever.

 

Can you tell us more about this?

 

Does your IPOD scream or laugh when you set it on the plug?


Looks like another "show me your gauge" thread...

 

msfitoy!

'splain that display!!!

 

Left to right...voltage, nitrous pressure, EGT


Please don't ask me to explain the rest...:impatient

 

umm......Sid........don't take this the wrong way.......but I think you need professional help.

 

Jeez, man... don't crash with all those distractions surrounding you.

 

You should see me driving in the dark...I'm lit up in red glow

Professional help? I prefer a good bottle of Red Wine...oooo...there's that Red word again

 

I have a friend that sits in his garage and sips red wine as he looks upon his Ferrari. I think its hysterical.

P.S. You dash look amazing.

 

That's what my neighbors must think when they walk by house..."this guy must think he's got a Ferrari...he needs professional help "

 

Well. I got tired of taking the remote in and out of the car all the time (since the MINI gets the short end of the garage stick and has to sit outside). Somehow I got the idea to try a homelink from another car and sure enough others had done it. On eBay you can get sunvisors from donor cars that have the transmitter in it or you can dig one up at your own local donor car lot. You could probably pay less than I did for mine but I really neded a black one to match the anthracite headliner and trim and they aren't as easy to find. A white or tan one is easier and probably cheaper, and you could probably paint the trim around the buttons black I suppose. Anyways, you just remove the unit from the visor and find a suitable place to install it. The sunvisors in the MINI are too small to fit both a vanity mirror and a homelink so I kept looking until I found the best place for it IMHO- in the plastic trim surrounding the sunroof which also houses the sunroof switch and that oval louvered thing which I always thought was some sort of sensor for the climate control but which looks to be just a louvered thing. My wife thought I was crazy when she saw me pulling out the interior of my 2 month old car and drilling holes in it but in the end it really looks OEM . It took some trial and error to wire it (the first time I pushed the button the sunroof opened instead of the garage door!) but I finally got it. The best part is that you can wire it so it has power only when the key is on so you don't have to worry about some evil person breaking into your car and opening your garage door. It still retains the code. My second choice would have been that flash-the-highbeams open-the-door gizmo but it's more money. My third choice would be that cool little chip that does an auto-up on your windows as well as wires in your garage door opener but that would permanently use up your opener so you can't use it in another car.

 

nothin special but these two $1 store ties make it real easy to pull the rear seats back up and a lot cheaper than the seat pulls that they sell (they look better when the car is clean and are tight to the headrests but this is the only picture i have of them and i'm not about to get up right now to take another picture). Hopefully this summer i can me-a-fy my MINI a little more. I really like that homelink garage door opener - i'm going to have to look into that.



i was thinking of putting 'repeater' turn signal lights behind the side mirrors so there would just be a bit of a glow around the border of the mirror. anyone else think that might look kinda cool? i don't particularly like the arrows they put on some of the other cars out there but like the safety-ness of them.

 

omg - those ties are so 80's. You didn't have any baling wire you could have used?

 

It smiles. Actually, I have my Nano in a Billfold/Nano case, so I actually have to plug my wallet into my cupholder, which seems a little odd, but very functional. Especially because it is near impossible to get the wallet out of my front pocket at a drive through in my race seat.

 

dude that's so cool! how many pairs of shoes do you have in your closet? haha

 

My wife is into "blinging" things so her MCSC is no stranger to her hobby!! Check this out!!