Hi guys new here so im putting up a thread on the (girl friends) mini. So it's a 2003 cooper S that my sister bought when it was only one year old, so she decided to sell in 2010 and I encouraged my girl friend to buy it as I knew it hadn't being ragged or on its roof but it was a tad tatty
The wheel archs were smoothed down to match the texture of the Aero kit, and the chrome rings, handles and fuel cap were etch primed and painted satin black
There was a couple of changes over the last couple of years, so rather than drag it out I will put it into what looks like a complete build, so I will stick to the bodywork for now Note on the rear bumper I didn't use the decals that came with the kit but got my local sign shop to make up a kit
At a later point I decide to do the roof, two reasons I wanted to try and figure out what spoiler to use and weather Id use paint, decal or wrap on the roof. So in the end my friend in BMW ordered me a new GP spoiler at cost plus rear screen also changed the headlamp to the 04-06 model.
So to bring it round to the interior, never a big fan of it from the seats, dash or clock lay out. So after living online I found a more or less complete brand new interior, new mats and new steering wheel and it was pretty local.. Happy days
So after a while I came a cross a new C/F dash which is NLA and I changed the clock lay out and added some aux clocks all OE, plus a couple of other little touches
For the suspension I used KV2 and Ireland engineering top mounts and rear sway bars, braided brake lines, JCWs front disc and calipers and at the rear EDC