Had a new mini chalenge last night and thought it would be a good discussion thread.

I hauled a 6 foot dinning room table from Ikea(about an hour away) to my house. It was a tough fit but with the help of an innocent MINI admirer I go it in there. It just proves the the saying "little on the out side Big on the inside".

So what have you hauled in your MINI?

 

The only hauling I do in mine is haulin' ***

 

A dryer, a load of cut up banana trees, 12 bags of top soil, $80 worth of plants. When we hauled the plants and the dirt, I had my husband and one of my kids with me at the time

 

With the hatch closed (not all at the same time)

• coffee table
• 26" flat panel tv in the box
• 27" tv in the box
• two mountain bikes
• 6.5' long by 2.5' wide mirror

 

1. 27 inch wega, boxed. All we had to do was fold down the rear seats, i had a passenger. The box was a pinch away from its' surroundings.

2. 60 mini toys, tent, lawn chair, two slot car track boxes (2-3 feet long), bags of cleaning supplies, jump starter, my size barbie, trophies and misc display items... and still had room to spare.

 

full size fouton mattress folded like a taco. mmmmm... taco.

 

4 17 inch wheels, and 4 tires seperatly.
5 people.

 

2 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels :smile:

 

I haul nothing in my MINI. The same week I bought my MINI I bought an 86 chevy van, primer gray with a cracked windshield, no rear view mirror, no drivers seatbelt, one bad headlight, one bad taillight, and a bad brake caliper .....so it wickedly pulls into oncoming traffic under hard breaking.....and get this..... NO REVERSE. .... It is a piece of crap and I use it only to haul stuff like lumber, lawnmowers...etc. all the things that I had hauled previously in my other cars and totally destroyed the interiors with. I even managed to crack the dash on my plymoth laser once when on a very cold night I pushed a ladder into the dash....looked like someone smacked their had on it. I always scratched the crap out of the bumpers. and I swear the smell of gasoline will never leave once a bit of it spills!!

Best $230 i spent was to buy that van. Anyway, I have had my car for 2 and half years and I still have new car smell!!! I LOVE IT!

 

I've hauled 4 17 in wheels and 4 loose tires.

I'd like to look into hauling a tear drop trailer. If a VW beetle can pull one, a MINI certainly can.

 

A 30 inch wide storm door and a dozen 8 foot 2X4.
300 FedEx packages, (a shipment for one of my clients). A total of 10,000 CDROMs in envelopes.

 

All of our camping gear, and two dogs:


[size=2]Tent

Tarps

Air mattress and pump

Sleeping bags

Pillows/blankets

Lanterns w/batts

Stove w/fuel (2)

Ice chest

Rope

Tent stakes

Cookware/coffee pot

utensils

plates, bowls,cups

can opener

bottle opener

knife

tongs

spatula

marshmellow forks

table cloth and clips

folding table

chairs

radio w/batteries

X Pen

leashes

dog bowls, food, treats

charcoal, fluid

first aid kit

camera

hatchet

hammer

broom, dustpan

shovel

rake

bucket

garbage bags

paper towels

toilet paper

zip lok bags

aluminum foil

sunscreen

insect repellant

[/size]and all of the food!

 

At this moment I have in my MINI for an event tomorrow:

10x10 EZUP
12x20 Tent
Card Table
4 camping chairs
300' of extension cords
3 Glad Trashbag full of Microfiber Towels and Wash Mitts
2-5 gallon buckets
All kinds of detailing equipment--3 PC's and a Rotary, NXT, Pads...
25' Water Hose and Nozzle
4 camping chairs
1 foldup mini table
and those are just the BIG Items!--got tons more in every nook and cranny
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I've also hauled 2 large toilets in their boxes from Home Depot
27" Apex TV in the box
6' Ladder
300+ pounds of Octane products from our warehouse

 

Enough clothes, shoes, junk food and car-care products for 6 weeks on the road...

 

And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!

 

5 piece drumset plus hardware and symbols

 

I often haul carpentry tools for home remodeling:
6' step ladder
big tub o' tools
tool bag
drills
saws
miter saw
2 folding sawhorses
cd's
lunch
water

 

Weber Genesis Gold C Gas BBQ in the box (almost got the rear hatch to shut, too)

 

With the seats UP... 16 slate tiles mix of square and rectangle, and two ten pound bags of hardwood mulch.

Another trip... 40 stone edging pavers....

With the seat down, two metal tractor seat bar stools (the ones that used to be in the Gateway Country Stores) and 30 2 liter bottles of soda. Plus two adults and a cocker spaniel plus a suitcase and computer bag....

Normally a stroller (when not hauling other stuff)

 

I work in the bicycle industry and recently for a photo shoot I had 3 titanium mountain bike frames and 9 titanium road frames plus 2 sets of deep section carbon wheels inside my MCS with doors, hatch and windows closed.
The photographer and my coworkers were in awe.
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It's all about playing a little bit of Tetris.

 

but I'm ready



Cargo Board

 

I've hauled 4 S-Lites before and a commercial BBQ grill... the grill would not fit in any other cars that we have without having to leave the trunk open... but in the MINI we can close the rear!

 

 

When I moved from VA to CT I fit my computer desk, disassembled, and every bit of clothing that I owned into my MINI. I could still see out the back too everything fit perfect. I still averaged, according to the trip computer, about 80 MPH and 32.5 MPG. My real workd MPG was about 29.5 after I did the math. Not bad with the car near GVWR for a 10 hour drive at 80 plus all the time.