Here's a re-cap of the last few days.

Don't you just love Florida weather?

Yea, every 2 days I have to go through an obstacle course to get to my house.



Hmm, what's next?

Come out to my car the other day to this.



Great. A scratch.

Lovely.

Moving on.

Well, the last couple days my car decides it would be nice to just randomly shut off on me WHILE DRIVING for a split second then come back on.

Yea, funny.

So I stop by Autozone to find that my stock battery's life is over.

Ok, knowing that eventually (using that term loosely) I'm going to upgrade to some 2400's or Powermaster D3100's for the amps, I don't see the need to buy a brand new, or expensive battery. So I trade my bad battery and get a used one for 20 dollars. It's guaranteed for 9 months, so if it dies, ill be getting another one. No issue there.

Prior to getting this new battery, my car now decides that since yesterday, it's going to be sluggish and hesitate to start when I tell it to.



I figure it's just the bad battery.

I proceed to get my new battery.

Hook it up, try to start it, thinking it would start fine...

I hoped for too much.

Acted the same as with the dead battery in it did.

Still haven't figured this one out. Might be the starter, spark plugs, who knows? With my good luck lately, I'm hoping I'll just get to buy a whole new engine!

Does it stop there?

Why stop when I can keep having fun?

Remember a month or 2 ago, when the Pepsi truck cut me off the road and I hit a curb going about 50?

I just noticed my headlight housing is cracked to hell. I put 2 and 2 together, and the only way this could have POSSIBLY happened, was from the impact from the curb.



THANKS PEPSI, CAN I AT LEAST GET A FREE SODA OUT OF THE DEAL???

With that being said, I'm ready to just give up, but I'm not...Just needed to vent...Hopefully the problem its having starting won't be major, but again, knowing my luck, it will be.

 

Ah the joys of owning a MINI. Love...................hate...................love ................hate..................love.......

You get the picture.

 

Really sorry to hear about your auto-rut! One has to hope it's over for you

 

You don't have all of those speakers hooked up yet, do you? I think so much could over load something in the ECU and mess it up for good.

 

i have all of 2 6.5" speakers hooked up, and a small 2 channel amp at the moment.

 

bet it's loud

 

I hate to break it to you but the scratch and the broken headlight look like vandalism to me..
There's no way that running into a curb should crack your headlight, unless it was a very big curb.
The scratch looks intentional and not so much road debris.

As for the engine stopping and restarting that would not be a battery.
A battery would show other signs like dimming lights and sluggish acceleration.
You appear to have a different problem here and don't take the advise of the parts store.. they will continue selling you parts until you replace them all.
Go have MINI run a diagnostic test to tell you whats going wrong with the electrical system.

JMTCW

 

Everyday at 4pm Storms... LOL hate it too@

 

Why stop when i can keep having fun?

flat tire on the interstate today, leaving me on the side of the road for 2 hours til AAA came WITHOUT A FLATBED TOW TRUCK.

whats next?

 

what caused it??

 

As Bill Clinton said, "I feel your pain."

Honestly, I do.

 

i dont know...theres a tiny gash in it, i had to have run over something on the interstate that gashed it, and the air leaked straight out in a matter of seconds, becuase when i tried to put air back in, it leaked out instantly.

 

You need to donate to some orphanage or help the soup kitchen to build up some Karma.

Just trying to lighten the mood.

 

seems a black cloud has been following me the last couple days

its really pissing me off!

 

SAME HERE!! I really, really, really hope things brighten up for us both in the coming days (okay hours).

 

well i guess theres a good out of this...

im getting a free tire replacement.

 

That wouldn't happen to be Tampa would it?

Hope things turn around for you!!

 

yup...i was on I4 heading south, when it switched to I275 (right around downtown-ish) is when i noticed it.

where in tampa are you? wouldnt happen to have any type of spare rim i could borrow would you? the company i got my rims and tires from is sending me a free replacement, i have to call them today on break at work.

lemme know if you have a spare i could borrow or buy though!

 

Take time out and watch this video...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...PIS64gKz6qX_Bw

 

First, you have my sympathy for your run of strange and unfortunate happenings.

Could wet electrics (due to the high water you may have recently experienced) be one of the problems? Maybe causing a short or something?

 

recently i havent been through high water, that was maybe a month ago or more. and it wasent really high enough to damage anything that i know of. i think its just bad luck... lol

 

Ok, my guess on the electrical behavior is a faulty ignition switch. Not the key cylinder, but the electrical part that the cylinder actuates. Happens in BMW's occasionally and the symptoms are very similiar....strange electrical behavior. Check it out.

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts...70&hg=32&fg=30 #4

 

I was actually referring to the flooding pics, is that Dale Mabry?

I am in St. Pete. I have three sets or wheels and tires... I will let you borrow one of my beat up track wheels. Just PM me