R60 3rd Mini now in my hands!
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And 2nd countryman, just picked her up today @ Mini of Dallas!
2013 cms MT, light white, black roof, black gravity leather, piano black everywhere!, nav, moonroof and all the goodies!
Matte black sport stripes to replace bonnet stripes...white roof stripes, and other basic aesthetic upgrades to come. Not too keen on doing much mechanically, maybe in the future, but I'm pretty happy how she is now...the 200 mile trip back to Austin was a ton of fun, oh how I missed a manual tranny.
Btw...had the c o u n t r y m a n letters removed...not my cup o tea.
2013 cms MT, light white, black roof, black gravity leather, piano black everywhere!, nav, moonroof and all the goodies!
Matte black sport stripes to replace bonnet stripes...white roof stripes, and other basic aesthetic upgrades to come. Not too keen on doing much mechanically, maybe in the future, but I'm pretty happy how she is now...the 200 mile trip back to Austin was a ton of fun, oh how I missed a manual tranny.
Btw...had the c o u n t r y m a n letters removed...not my cup o tea.
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And thanks everyone...I haven't had a manual since my '08 Sidewalk Cabrio and I'd forgotten how much fun it is to actually DRIVE a car!
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As for the emblem...I also didn't notice until today that it's higher...probably to make room for the awful c o u n t r y m a n letters that formerly adorned the boot lid.
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I don't have the thule fairing...it's just the rails. I'm going to play with the positioning of them...maybe placed further forward or backward will help.
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Oops, my mistake. I had a brain fart and was thinking of someone else's CM that had fairing when asking about yours.
I installed my rack according to the manual and it still whistles at around 50 mph. I'm pretty sure I have the stickers facing the right way as well. I'll play with the positioning and update if I find any improvement.
I installed my rack according to the manual and it still whistles at around 50 mph. I'm pretty sure I have the stickers facing the right way as well. I'll play with the positioning and update if I find any improvement.
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I didn't have a moonroof on my last CM, and with the forward rail positioned directly overhead there was quite a bit of wind noise up past a certain speed, so I moved the rail back to about the b pillar and it reduced the noise significantly. That's where I put it this time, but with the moonroof it's so much more noticable, not to mention, when the roof is open, it's very loud! Will be working that out eventually, or I'll just remove them until I actually need them for something.
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I'm the one with the thule fairing. The whistling harmonics are down, though there's still some noise up there. Some additional mitigation will be returning the rubber t strips to the rails: I'm waiting on that until I am convinced on the bike tray mounting locations. It affects how you Vig those strips.
How is it that you guys are adjusting the rack mount position? The instructions were explicit about placement down to the millimeter (ze chermans)
How is it that you guys are adjusting the rack mount position? The instructions were explicit about placement down to the millimeter (ze chermans)
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I'm the one with the thule fairing. The whistling harmonics are down, though there's still some noise up there. Some additional mitigation will be returning the rubber t strips to the rails: I'm waiting on that until I am convinced on the bike tray mounting locations. It affects how you Vig those strips.
How is it that you guys are adjusting the rack mount position? The instructions were explicit about placement down to the millimeter (ze chermans)
How is it that you guys are adjusting the rack mount position? The instructions were explicit about placement down to the millimeter (ze chermans)
I didn't follow the instructions, all I did is just put it on the way I think it looks good.... and I really don't hear much noise even with my bike rack on ( which I never put a bike on it ) on the highway.
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Yep, that's why I'd be wary of setting the cross rails farther back than specifically on those points.
I'm going to do a test with the bars, the trays and the fairing. Different configurations, testing sound and mileage. It'll take a few weeks, because I'll need to check actual mileage changes in each config. I'll update here:
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ing-tests.html
Yep, that's why I'd be wary of setting the cross rails farther back than specifically on those points.
I'm going to do a test with the bars, the trays and the fairing. Different configurations, testing sound and mileage. It'll take a few weeks, because I'll need to check actual mileage changes in each config. I'll update here:
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ing-tests.html
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