Drove my MINI over to my parents house and replaced the wax seal on their toilet.... Done.... Drove my MINI back home... Lit the grill and ready to cook some hamburgers... My parents will be arriving soon.... Will be making a batch of Moscow Mules to mellow everyone out..... Happy times ahead....
I washed the summer wheels and put them on the MINIs, washed the winter wheels, and then washed the MINIs.
Removed the roof checkers graphic and the bonnet stripes. Washed and waxed the car, plasti-dipped the checkered mirror caps black, replaced the OEM aside scuttles with checkered ones. The plan is to next black the Crome Bits, tint the windows and probably plasti-dip the wheels too. I also Started the laborious process of polishing the headlights back to clear (they're getting a bit hazy on top).
Tape them off and wet sand them with 3000 grit. Then polish them out and they will look brand new and ver clear.
City sticker, new title, new reg with sun shading exception and my new to me 06 JCW is fully legit! Still not over 10K miles!
Didn't do anything today but drive it to the Mexican Restaurant. Did do a few things over the winter. Couldn't get some of the pictures to post to my "Garage" so I'm doing it here. This was on the way to Minis Slay The Sleeping Dragon last year. Got the engine cover painted. Installed NM Strut Bar and ArmaSpeed Intake. Sneed4Speed (S4S) installed their prototype roll bar and rear seat delete. This was the seat delete before they added the carpet. S4S installed Sparco Chrono Road seats with associated sliders and base. Also installed 4 point Sparco Harnesses. New front splitter. Killboy shot from MSSD last year. There's other stuff, but I can't think of them right now.
Got a new set of tires for the Cooper, for when we go Dragon slaying, on the Cherohala Skyway and on I-75 to and from. The present ones are ok for local, sedate use but not good for rainy weather, interstate speeds, or intense twisties.
^ Same! Yesterday I was browsing the interwebs for some of Dave.O's famous StarSpecs. Just before clicking 'purchase' I remembered that I have a set of BFG Comp 2's sitting in the attic, left over from that time I bought cheap black wheels. Only put about 1000 miles on them before returning em. I'll get to them Direzza's eventually, thinking next year. New-ish rubber will be fitted this afternoon! No more tire letters, and I'm ok with that.
Took my wife's 2011 over for a 2 day detail by a local club member, he is recovering from back surgery and he claims he uses the detailing for exercise and get his strength back, he has been detailing since he was 15, he is in his early 60s, nice guy, six years in the Marines as an aviation mechanic, he said carrier duty did him in, out after 6. I have seen three other vehicles he has done, superb work, we shall see how this goes, I will post some snaps this weekend. Supposed to rain, ah well! Off to Missouri soon, so a road trip for the 16 across the flats of Kansas and Western Missouri, I think I will drive the alternate slow route this time. Don
Getting new window motors and regulators and replacing a tie rod (seized adjusting threads). Having my local MINI trained place do it as I don't have the time to do it myself at the present. The windows have been intermittent for several years (rescued by the Fonzi maneuver umpteen time), and the other day, the driver side could be slid up and down by hand (but would not go all the way up), independent of the motor (which still whirred, but didn't move the window) so it's really time now.
Discovered that I like waxing my previous MINI (Midnight Black) more than waxing my new-ish MINI (Pepper White). It's a whole lot easier for these old eyes to see where the Zymol wax is and isn't on the black paint rather than on white.
Rebuilt the trailing arms on my Classic Mini.....new pivot pins and bearings, new wheel cylinders and brake shoes, new hoses.....