My brother loves to press my buttons whenever he's not driving, I would love it if I could have his airbag deploy half way to scare him, ha,ha!

 

I'm in blackout process mode. I blacked out the grill surround, headlight rings, gas cap and the tail light trim rings. Oh, and I just slapped on a nice new Borla S-Type exhaust! Love it. I'm going to pick up matte black door handle covers from Outmotoring when he has them back in a few weeks. I'm not sure what to do with the belt line...plasti dip or tape?

 

my 2011 midnight black metallic

 

I've done plastidip. I gets the job done. However, it will eventually chip or bubble. The belt line on the doors will fail first due to hands touching it with windows down. And thats with 5-6 coats. This summer I'll be switching out to the Outmotoring kit.

 

Sitting at the waiting area in Mini of Peabody waiting for the stripes. Drove the Mini in looking as below:

 

To fill those front license plate holes... you can get a pair of plastic black hole inserts from Lowe's to cover them up. It's where all the nuts and bolts aisle. Real inexpensive way to conceal it.

if you'd like to match it with the paint.. just order a sample vinyl wrap that measures 1"x1" from eBay and cover the inserts for a $1 and your good to go!

Car looks divine!

 

Here is a picture of our 2008 MCS yesterday evening overlooking the Petitcodiac river near Hillsborough New Brunswick. It was a nice evening for a drive.

 

A couple of complete pics when I got to work

 

After the work it looks like this...

 

I have the same stripes on my chili red. Looks good!

 

Got my brakes and rotors and Shocks in, 3 days of playing mechanic! along with the ireland camber plates and ecs strut tower caps. Here she is , as she sits after the work ...the old rotors and the new.

 

Just look at those lips on your rotors. Looks tons better now.

 

Thanks, Mine is pretty much the same colors as my first British sports car, a TR-4A.

Just like the one below:



Also added this at the same time as the stripes.

 

She was crying for some attention! lol but man was it a ***** to get the Konis in...It was really just the drivers side front...it took me 4 hours(yup no kidding). Could be because I never did it before because the others went in smoothly. I started at the drivers front ..shock out and change camber plate to ireland fixed (which created a longer bolt at top and hindered getting it back in the knuckle) then rotor (new screw and copper grease)then removed brake calipers and used a wire wheel on all exposed metal of calipers and wheel hubs ....then cleaned with brake cleaner and re greased and booted the pistons and installed the hawkes ...then moved onto the rear and around. By the time I was done with all I then painted the calipers (black gloss) and after they dried for a few hours I picked up from the mess I made and then put my new rims/tires on and after I drove it out of the garage it seemed like something was loose and I was getting a knocking sound over bumps which after getting it aligned today has seemed to actually make quiet. I just assumed by the car being on jack stands for 3 1/2 days and me manhandling the suspension that I made it all out of whack. Just glad to have it actually done and I did it all by myself...which in and of itself is a giant accomplishment for me. I was motivated by the savings and I am just glad it all worked out! Lots of obscenities were heard throughout the neighborhood but in the end it got done(albeit 3 1/2 days later).

 

I wonder how many hours the shop would have charged you for? Quite a tale. Glad it's done and worked out for you.

 

I shudder to think how many hours, it would have been a small fortune to say the least. I am really glad I did it ..I really love this vehicle more than I thought I would actually and I want to make sure It gets as much tlc as I can give it! Lol Truthfully I took a gamble and it worked out! It could have gone another way, thankfully it didn't.

 

Here's my new rotors too...2 hours for the 4 wheels...my 1 car garage...jack from boot worked for me. I don't recommended you use yours though as I have extensive experience on work on vehicles...

 

 

Notta, nothing, no picture. Edit: Never mind it took awhile but see the picture now.

 

Looking great

 

Never knew or noticed the antenna for the convertibles is mounted near the windshield until that picture. Seems an odd place for it, no?

Good job on the brakes, lookin' good

 

Thanks !!! Of course you know the wheels/Rims(finally they are on) came from you Guy's! Love them and they were a great deal!!! I've had 4 compliments on them in the last 2 days.

 

 

Congrats, love it when people compliment the MINI.

 

Good old wheel to wheel racing in my R56.