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The dealership I was dealing with was too busy with their "crazy 8's" sale yesterday to talk to me so I went downtown (Vancouver BC) to have lunch instead of visiting the dealership to have a look at what Countryman(s) they had on the showroom floor.
The other dealership called me and left a message that they would let me have an F60 for a long term (2 or 3 days) test drive if I want. Problem with this dealership is, I have been there multiple times in the past, even when I bought my first MINI with appointments for test drives and they never had a car for me to drive. Would this time be different? My wife and I were there 3 weeks ago and we ended up waiting hours for them to put gas in the two that we eventually did test drive.

In anycase, I still have to call my financial planner to see if it is okay to sell some of my investments and buy the car with cash. So there is no rush.

 

You're one lucky guy then because you already own an R53.

 

Use a reverse drill bit, most of the time they'll just screw right out.

 

I recently had success within method but I
used a dremel cut off wheel to make the slot.

 

Picked up a new tool for the MINI....

 

A very good friend gave one of those to me. Looks like my coffee needs a flush.

 

Gotta love it when you think you're for sure getting pulled over, but don't Even better when someone else get's in trouble.

 

Not the MINI, but I did replace the battery in the wife’s Honda. Mmmyep.

 

Pulled the headliner yesterday so I can drop it off this week. I thought about replacing it myself but after reading a few posts here I thought I would go with the majority's advice and leave it to the pros.

 

Replaced the exhaust manifold, because of broken flex pipe and gaskets. Long term fuel trim back to normal and P 2096 went away after several miles.

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Dude! You need to hardwire that sucker so you don’t forget it in the future.

 

Heat will not hurt the V1. I had mine in a rental in southern Florida for 10 days and never took it down. The car sat in the sun all day in 95+ temps and was hot ass hell but always worked fine.

You do need to hard wire yours.

 

Touched up four 1/8” chips on the hood
and a small area on the front bumper
that cracked and flaked off after a minor impact.
Also some touch up of a scrape on my
wife’s 2001 VW Cabrio.

 

Heck Dave at least you had yours there.

 

R56 JCW brakes?

 

Took my car out for a nice ride so I could ship my old JCW brakes to their new home.