Ooooh, that last one raised a few hairs on my back when it reminded me of an incident in the past.

Years ago I was tooling down the road when some ****** decided not to simply flick one cigarette butt out their window, but instead empties their entire ASHTRAY. Guess who was behind them. Yeah, I was incensed. Ashes and butts under my wipers, in the grille, and ashes blowing into my open window.

I blew around this jerk shaking my fist at them, and a nice firm hit of the brakes to drive the point home when I was in front of them.

It was then I remembered the warm, flat, near two-thirds full 'Big Gulp'-sized soda in the truck with me....

I'll let you guess what I did next.

 

>>I hate when the doors are locked and people pull on the door handle so hard that >>their shaking trying to get it open. Then I have to say every time, pull once to unlock, >>again to get out.

^^^^
Those are the same type of people who SPEAK VERY LOUDLY to foreigners, thinking it will somehow help them understand english better.

My pet peeve is smoking cars... no not smoking in cars (just don't flick your cig butt on me), I'm talking about oil buring or poorly tuned cars that spew a higher than normal amount of noxious fumes in a cloud of brown, black or gray smoke. Take those freakin junkers off the road!

 

I have the OEM Mini window sun-shade, the type that folds up. However, I can't put it up, or take it down without knocking the rearview mirror around! :evil:

I would have thougt, that whoever designed the bloody thing would have actually fitted it into a Mini to see if it could be used without bollocksing up the rearview mirror.

Also, I have the 33.2 ECU stumble and bad low rpm performance, which is a more like one hell of a pet peeve. What's bigger than a pet peeve? A livestock peeve?

HOWEVER, I still love my Mini

 

Oooo the smoking car, thats a good one, lots of them in Georgia, almost wish the engine would just fall out, but then that would bring up the stuff on the road and give me more paint chips.. Aaaaaa

 

>>I have the OEM Mini window sun-shade, the type that folds up.

>>I would have thougt, that whoever designed the bloody thing would have actually fitted it into a Mini to see if

Does yours seem like its about an inch too short to fit in the window properly without falling down?

 

Off the subject, but Darxar's ride looks sweeet. My last car was all black... I love to look at all black cars but hate to keep them clean.

 

i believe it is MOSS mini .com has really cool guages that match the tach and dash perfictly... they go on each side of the tach... I have a picture of them installed.. email me if you want to see them

 

>>Off the subject, but Darxar's ride looks sweeet. My last car was all black... I love to look at all black cars but hate to keep them clean.

Thanks orbhot, it looks great clean, thats why I like black, with a little bit here and their. I am tyring to get a silver carbon hood scoop and a chrome radiator grill to give it a little more personality and then thats it for the out side mod's, got to do the exhaust and the save for the pully/ecu.

 

>>You can get your MINI programmed to unlock the doors when the ignition is turned off. I got this done. Now, the problem I have is when people try to open the door while my car is still running.
>>
There's a website called "The Ultimate Mini Cooper Guide" that has, among other things, a "Checklist for Dealer Pickup." This includes a listing of various actions that can be programmed by the dealer, one of which is having the doors unlock whenever the handbrake is applied. I asked my brother-in-law (another 2003 MCS owner) about that and he said that his dealer told him that the software upgrade that would allow this option wasn't available yet. They told him that they would call him as soon as the upgrade was available. I don't know if there is also an option to have the doors unlock when the ignition is turned off. It would seem to me that the handbrake trick might be a better option because then people could get out of your MINI without breaking the door handles even if the engine was running.

 

http://members.iglou.com/worldwidewe...oper_guide.htm

that's the website he's talking - handy considering I pickup my MCS in THREE DAYS!

 

>>>>I have the OEM Mini window sun-shade, the type that folds up.
>>
>>>>I would have thougt, that whoever designed the bloody thing would have actually fitted it into a Mini to see if
>>
>>Does yours seem like its about an inch too short to fit in the window properly without falling down?


YES!! I HATE that!

 

>>http://members.iglou.com/worldwidewe...oper_guide.htm
>>
>>that's the website he's talking - handy considering I pickup my MCS in THREE DAYS!

Enjoy your drive back to AZ ! You'll have a blast

 

:evil: 1st & 2nd gear start off ~ very unlike the original "S"s

:evil: Window noise going Up or Down!

:evil: Inside door white relectors, factory installed - fall off with regularity :evil:

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Peeves in General (within your area of influence or outside it)

Punks TRYING drag you .. be coooool

Finger and/or nose prints on your glass

Brake dust but preventive/repetative cleaning says it all

Discoloration around the twin exhaust pipes - see above

Finger prints around your door handles

Bird crap when attempting to shade your pride and joy

Reading these threads and wondering when it will happen to me???

 

Ditto on the nose prints- I actually had a FACE print with a hand print along side it on my MINI

 

BRAKE DUST!!!!! :evil: :evil:

 

You ask about pet MINI peeves:

1. Anemic torque below 3K RPM (particularly with A/C on).

2. Stumble in first gear off the line.

Those are the big items for me. They irritate daily and can actually be dangerous.

If I were to continue with the smaller stuff:

3. Another six inches of length for the rear-seat passengers.

4. More comfortable seats (the sports models are like a bag of stones, and the geometry is all wrong with height adjustment interacting negatively with seat slope). Curable with after-market seats, but at the expense of side airbags.

5. Gauges for those of us with satellite navigation. Curable with after-market gauges, but why should that be necessary?

6. Redesign the door storage compartments. The horizontal bar is in the way, and the bottom rim of the plastic oval curves into the compartment in a way that makes extracting items tedious.

7. Serious air conditioning for those of us in SE U.S.A.

8. A deeper glove box (perhaps two inches).

9. Smarter destination input to the NavTech sat/nav data base. NavTech is pretty good, but I've found countless places where a town or street in the data base (in fact, one that is currently displayed :smile: cannot be entered as a destination. This is not NavTech's failing, as they have pointed out repeated to me.

However, I continue to be delighted by all of those attributes that MINI got right:

A. Telepathic steering and agile handling.

B. Amazing storage with the rear seats folded (most recently, boxed full-tower Dell PC, 20-inch monitor, over-sized APC UPS, half a dozen smaller items). I simply couldn't believe it.

C. Double the mileage of my previous car ('85 BMW 535i)... and hopefully significantly reduced long-term maintenance costs.

 

Brake Dust.

Don't mind cleaning the car, I actually enjoy it.

But every 50 miles the wheels look like....well they don't look good. Liife is too short to clean wheels everyday. Yeah, I know about the green pads. Why not MINI?

Regards,
Red