You don't have to be going ultra fast to lose parts--I was accelerating on to the freeway when I lost my OEM hood scoop. I also lost one of my rear plastic arches on my way back from AMVIV when it was particularly windy.

 

Heck I was doing 45-50 when my A-pillar cover flew off. In my instance the fault lies squarely on the shoulders of the glass company that had just repaced the windshield.

*break, break*

I personally see no problem with the OP's situation. I have driven across the upper plains and Rockies. There are places up there that you can see everything for MILES in all directions, and you'll go hours without seeing another car. There is also the fact that in many of these places if you aren't doing triple digits the cops that are out on the highway will pass you like you're standing still. There is a right place and time for just about everything.

 

Rustyboy155 (Nick) could you pm me about your higher speed adventures i have some questions for you.....

 

If you've never driven in west Texas or the Southwest then its hard to understand the open desolation that exists out there. I rode my motorcycle 100 mph for an hour and saw two vehicles during that time on hwy 50 in Nevada.

Yes, going that fast is dangerious to yourself and others. Yes, there are places where that risk is lower then most of the rest of the country. I'm older and wiser now and neither drive like that anymore nor advocate others doing so. But everyone should go see the "Great Empty" sometime - late October is a good time to go; the heat has broken and the winter rains haven't yet started.

 

didnt have anything fly off my car yet. Knock on wood. But around 60mph on 580 both my windshield wipers start to wobble and shake. I got 1k more miles till next service check i got a few things i want them to look into including my front struts.

 

No problem with my 02 S on the track a speeds up to just shy of 120. I've heard of some problems after a windshield has been replaced with the trim flying off at highway speeds if the repair guys broke a clip on the A-pillar trim removal.

 

Note to self: keep it under 120 when going out for bagels tomorrow morning.

 

Mine blew off at ###, sounded like an F-15 taking off! It was because the A pillar caps were reused after getting a new windsheild.

 

There's nothing wrong with reusing the A pillar covers themselves. The problem is in the reuxing of the clips that are intended to hold them on.

IIRC the proper procedure is to use all new clips and fresh double stick tape.

 

Rather than admit to speeding (heaven forbid!), I'll just say that I have done 65 mph into a 60-70 mph headwind without losing parts.

I watched my windshield guy replace the A pillar covers. He cracked one of the mounting points for the clips. Instead of getting a new one, I suggested he use the same sealant that holds in the windshield. Has held securely, although will likely cause the A pillar to need to be replaced next time upon removal...

 

doesn't the 2006 capture max speed in the key - so the dealer could see it?

 

Does anybody else realize that its not 120mph that is dangerous but instead the people behind the wheels of American vehicles?

Getting a driving license in the US is just too easy and the citizens here consider it a right, not a privlage. If people actually needed to learn some evasive driving techniques, perform an AutoX style event, and an HPDE course, as well as learning actually learning the laws of the road, and the unwritten common courtesy's then our roads would be safer.

We also need people to pass a "medical" or "physical" of some sort in which they need to have 20/40 vision corrected at minimum, and be able to hear a certain decible range, and to not have to worry about them having a heart-attack while driving.

I'm sorry but we have it way too easy here in America, and the people actually BELIEVE that speed is a big problem when it is actually so much more then that.

 

I've been saying this since I first got my license almost 4 years ago. Let me say this in the simpliest of terms:

It's not the Chevy Corvair that's unsafe at any speed, but the driver that's unsafe at any speed.

 

"Life begins at 160mph"

 

I had my upper windshield weatherstrip loosen and start flapping around after getting the glass replaced, it was not set in properly.

 

I saw 135 mph on the back straight at Road Atlanta nothing flew off.

 

Well, according to Gianlucafavaloro's insights, that hasn’t happened to any of the Minis that he drives and also to autopartswarehouse too. They don’t encounter a Mini owner that drive as fast as your wife does.

 

My big problem with driving over posted speeds is that the road was not engineered for it. I was once on a nice straight stretch of 2-lane highway and drove over a "hump" in the road that briefly reconfigured my internal organs (think roller coaster) although I believe Lucy's tires did not complete leave the surface of the road. Presumably that would not have been a problem at the posted speed. So I learned my lesson - save the speed for surfaces that are engineered for it!

 

No... god, I wish people would stop spreading rumors about this crap. The only information on the key is the VIN #.

 

Well said... you're just as dead at 80 mph as you are at 130. Speed doesn't kill people, the idiots behind the wheels that have no clue how to drive do.

 

Have you been to most of the tracks out there? Your average freeway is in a lot better condition...

 

Add a little bit of rain to SoCal freeways and suddenly you have pileups left and right.....it takes only a little bit of common sense that you need to slow down when the road gets slick or that you might lose control by hydroplaning into the center divider, but they just don't get it.........

 

Not being 2 ft from the guys bumper is the real problem there. Again if you go to a track, you can see that a vehilce's limits in the wet are within 90% of its limits in the dry. The wet simply exagerates driver error 10 fold.

Now, is it safer to drive slower in the rain. Of course...and people should adjust their driving style when it does rain. But again, speed is only 5% of the problem at most. Anyway...I'll stop ranting its just that this is one issue that needs attention.

 

My Mini tops out at 133mph here in Idaho (prolly due to the elevation), and have never had any problems doing that speed. The furthest I have gone at that speed was five miles, continuous. No tearing, no creaking, nothing. Tho I did allow the car a breather, due to a red-hot downpipe.

 

I got both my audis and my vw gti to 140mph. but the MINI has only seen 110mph, i guess i dont have the desire to speed anymore. im growing up i guess. ; ) hah.

thats too bad about what happened!