apathy,

Yes, the 215/45/17 will fit just fine with no rubbing using stock rims - no need for wheel spacers either. I would have gone wider, buy maybe on my next set.

 

Very Nice Congrats!!!!

 

Love this color and your checkerboard interior - nice car!

 

Great looking car! I just saw an eclipse grey MCS in my neighborhood yesterday. It looked great in the sun. on your choice of wheels too!

 

cheers mate

the only 205 45 17 runflat winter tyre is the blizzak lm25's here so i might go for 215s as well

 

Agreed!

Nice lookin' MINI.

 

great looking car, just picked up mine last month as well. 2011 EG/Black but as with every MINI, a little different setup. I personally am looking into black wheels, lowering, and tinting. Congrats!

 

Gratz! I just picked up mine about a week ago! 2008 with 32k miles. love her!

 

Awesome and congrats on your Eclipse Mini... I just had my windows tinted and need to take a few new pictures, but we're in blizzard conditions today, so I'm driving an alternative vehicle until the weather clears.

Can't hardly wait for the weather to clear!!!

 

Congratulations! Mine is EG too! love this color!

 

I just picked up a 2011 MCS too - some really nice improvements over the R56. Picked it up on Thursday, did 700 miles on a club run over a (long) weekend, it's having sway bar and extra gauges fitted now.

 

Your 2011 is still an r56. Just a refreshed one. Same basic mini. Enjoy it!

 

The Eclipse gray (paint code b24?) has M506 (fine blue pearl), M99/10 (fine aluminium), A929 black, A125 (white), A335 (transparent red), M1 (pitch and Al enhancer), and A548 (Green/ Helio Blue)

Sorry, no brown...

 

+1 Very nice, Best of luck you've got a great car!


Agree with the others that this color very similar to Royal Grey, which was the color of our old Mini (which I loved). I think it gives the car a very unique more refined look, different from the other (more common where I live at least) brighter Mini colors. My wife and I were always getting compliments on the car and color from strangers at gas stations and parking lots...even when the car was 4 years old. In the sun it definately had some green/brown color in there, especially in bright sunlight. It is hard to detect at first, but when you see it is side by side with Dark Silver the difference is very noticeable.


Haven't seen the Eclipse Grey in person yet, but after owning a Royal Grey MCS for 4 years, I definately say it has hints of brown in the color.
Maybe it's like when you were a kid and you mixed all the finger paint colors together and came up with brown

 

Does anyone have pictures (or can point me to one) of an Eclipse Gray with white roof and mirrors?

 

Just picked up my 11 spice orange MCS as well. I like the eclipse gray, but I wanted a color that really stands out.

 

I considered the orange but went for red in the end (with a red roof to make it "stand out" from all the other red MINIs with black or white roofs ).

I've been amazed at how many more comments it attracts than the BRG Cooper ever did. So your Spice Orange should do the same only moreso.

 

where can I find this eject button?? that's amazing!

 

The 'eject' button comes in a 5 pack of glove box stickers from http://www.vinylstyles.com . In the pack you get eject, coffee, and a few others that I can't remember... The to my door the price was around $20.

You can order by emailing below:

Lyle Beckwith - vinylstyles@gmail.com

Everyone that rides in my mini, or looks inside immediatly makes a positive comment about that little sticker. Funny how something so inexpensive can be so impressive!