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Drove on my winter tires for the first time. HUGE difference!

 

Traction makes everything better. :wink:

 

Went to run some errands, it's like 18F out. The MINI hates this more than me.

 

Installed my custom Nick-Fab pizza slicer on the blu one. Thanks Nick!

 

Got winter wheels and tires put on the Countryman. Just in time for another sub-zero blast of weather.

 

Washed, clayed and washed my car again yesterday. Pulled it in the garage and dried it off and let it sit for the night.

Today the DA came out and polished the whole car 3 times to remove little scratches and what not. (( OCD yup ))

Tested a few new waxes and they are looking real good and replace some Prima stuff. I got tired after 5 hours so I covered the car in a nice layer of pure carnauba and I will take it off sometime tomorrow.

It's great to have a garage and work from home so I don't need to use my car daily.

 

Sounds like a good day Dave. Mine has been in the garage & has only come out on a decent day. Babs clubster is seeing all the snow & dirt this winter. :smilewinkgrin:

 

Installed CF Finished Intercooler Diverter

Had this Hydro Dipped and installed it today, order the replacement JCW Sticker today.

 

Just a precaution.

 

Working on a walnut blast!

 

Two coats of Carnauba huh? And then you're buff?

 

Guess you are too LAME to do anything.

 

Nothing, to the MINI. But I finally finished insulating the ceiling of my detached garage/workshop. I also installed a pellet stove in the shop. It was a nice toasty 70 degrees in there today.

It's been unusable in the winter, I should be able to get things done now.

Dave

 

Drove to work in 2nd gear, lol. Little bit of snow and people think they can't drive. OK, well they CAN"T even when it's dry, but so much worse in the snow.

 

Looks better then the F56 bumper. :lol:

FYI I do drive and have driven my MINI is very bad weather and deep snow. I just don't need to now.

 

Heck Dave if I didn't have those Doc appointments I'd have stayed off the road too. :yesnod:

I was thinking the same thing about the F56. Cover it in frozen slush & it'll look better.

 

Today I let the Mistress take a peek out of the garage door to see the 8 + inches of snow we got last night. It's about 15 degrees but its going down to 5 today with a wind chill of -5.

I will take the SUV out to play in the snow later today since I need some beer for a party this weekend. :devil:

 

Not mine, but a club member's car....

He complained of poor running and a temp gauge that was inop on his 93 Cooper S and since it ran badly he had it towed the 43 miles to my shop.

Once in I started by checking for power at the sending unit in the head, finding nothing there I checked continuity in the wire to the cluster and it was good, so I pulled the cluster and removed the temp/fuel gauge combo. On careful inspection I found the wire that feeds the coil had come unsoldered, so a few minutes with the iron and I had her stuck on good again. I also repaired an open in the flex circuit board that fed the tach and instrument lights. Once back in that all worked so it was on to the poor running.

Often times finding a problem can be as simple as asking what was done to the car last.....in this case the owner had wired in a set of four driving lights and after tracing the wires I found he'd pulled the power for the relay side of the lights off the hot side of the coil! Ooops......

Removing those wires made the engine run just fine again...imagine that! :biggrin5:

I sent him home with a wiring diagram and instructions on how to wire them correctly and since I haven't heard any distress calls, I think he made it home already!

 

Well nothing to either streetable machine today. Lots to the race car though.... June's just around the corner.