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Installed a Sprint Booster. Apart from getting a custom tune this is the next best thing.

Now I can heal & toe much easier =)


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Dave, I didn't know that was a thing. That said, this was the first time I've done brakes on this car since they were covered by MINI till 100k. Just solder the two lines and that removes the sensor for good? Where the hell have I been....

 

Snip & solder. Brake pad nanny be dead.

 

A little bit of interior wrap work last night.

 

He can hardly wait for me to shut off the ignition! He'll never drive as his legs are too short...even for a MINI. He's a cockapoo puppy and is really curtailing my fun time [like car shows], but so far he's doing as well as a puppy in need of doggy Ritalyn [sp?] can do.

 

Seems like the market is shrinking for both canned tuna & custom tuna. Takes a while, but the good stuff stays at the top while the poseurs fall by the wayside. I'd guess the new F MINI's have a low take rate on tunes & such.

I'll never buy a new sweeper for my sweetie. She'd expect me to use it.

 

I flew home from Florida today an saw my MINI in the garage. Nice and clean like I left it 2 weeks ago.

Maybe I will go out for a ride tomorrow.

 

I replace my belt and tensioner every 2 years. I replaced the crank damper after the first 4 years with an ATI damper.

 

I just used a Coteco brand OEM style part,
which looks to be of reasonable quality.
Actually, the original stock one looked
perfectly fine, but I figure it was living on
borrowed time and the rubber must be
pretty hard by now.
Also, no one seems to make a performance
dampening crank for the R55-R60 range,
just a couple lightened solid ones.

 

I read that too. I plan on changing it to the damper one. It was a quick temporary fix. Seriously dont want the bearing failure.

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Schwaben makes one. I think Lee has one. If not, I'll loan you mine for the price of mailing it to you. And return, of course.

 

It could be a start of a bad battery under load to an original alternator starting to fail.

 

I'm glad they did. It wouldn't have been much of a celebration without them.

 

Perish THAT thought. I plan to keep on driving til they have to pry my fingers off the steering wheel.
This whole ordeal has been disappointing. When we bought this car in 2012, it only had 26k [now it has 90k] on it and we had planned on it to last the rest of our lives. I'm not interested in buying another car. Come Hell or high water, I'm sticking with what I have. My MCS has 50k more than her car does and the R50 is still plugging along at 81k although who really knows how long this newer CVT will last.

 

MINI stuff, well I pulled the MINI out of the garage so I could spend the day cleaning the bread van, aka GTI. Man was it ever coated in road grime & bug guts. Later this week I'll clean out the inside & vacuum up the donut crumbs.

Today I pulled the MINI out of the garage again & put new plugs & coils in the bread van. Later this week I'll drain the sump & add some new Mobil 1 0w40. 5,000 miles on the old stuff so it's time.

 

Changed the earl of crankcase in the German bread van. Mobil 1 0w40 & a Mann filter.

Sending a sample off to Blackstone to see the general health of the engine. Bet they tell me to run the oil until 10K. No way I'll ever go past 5K.

 

I had Lamin-X on my R53's lights. It held up great. I never did get around to putting it on Babs R55.

Her car sat outside for 7 years so it's not surprising there was so much sun damage to those lights. It now has a garage stall to use so hopefully that sun problem won't happen again.

 

A seemingly never ending task with these cars.