I am new here and I hope to be around for awhile. I have owned my 08 Cooper S for about 8 months and right now I am looking for an inexpensive hot link to mount a water temp sending unit and a tapless way to install a oil pressure sending unit. I will dig around the site for this kind of info for the next couple of days but if anyone knows of a inexpensive way to do this I would like to hear from you. I did make my own mounting hardware for the two gauges. There are some very nice prefab options out there for mounting gauges in a MINI but I wanted to see what I could do. I went with the white face satin grey bezel STRI X-line gauges but since I have not wired them yet I can not say how well they work. The white face X-lines are getting hard to find. John Hoffner