Most liked posts in thread: What did you do with your MINI today?

I took my new CAI down to have it power coated in black chrome. Now I'll have 2 so I can swap them out when they need to be redone.

 

Were I live there is a do it yourself car wash 1 block from me. So it works well for me. Soft water and spot free rinse.

 

I took the winter tires off and put on the summer shoes today.

 

It looks really nice just the way it’s in the picture.

 

00Mini you know you can't leave things alone. I'm just upgrading a little.

 

Be careful of what you wish for. There were five sold on BaT this year already and it seems they come available in bunches. I remember Dave.O commenting how much he enjoyed driving a GP1 he had detailed so get your loose ends tied up and be ready to jump on one when it becomes available.

 

I took my intercooler and a few other things to the polisher to get cleaned up. It never ends.

 

Whew! I just got in from putting the coil over adjustment extenders on the rear units. It was a bit more of a job than I thought... took me about 3 hours, but I got it done!

I also finally replaced the foam in the trim panel under the rear hatch opening. The OEM stuff had disintegrated and it looked pretty nasty. I bought some window unit AC filter foam many years ago but never had that trim piece off of the car, so I just never got around to replacing it. Since I had it off for this job, I figured 'no time like the present!'

 

Was checking the brake fluid the other day and managed to drop the reservoir cap behind the firewall and it ended up under the brake booster....
My hands weren't small enough to reach the cap.... So off came the windshield plastic cowl pieces.... Of course 13 year old plastic pieces are pretty brittle after being exposed to sunlight all these years. Resulted in a lot more smaller plastic pieces than what was there when I started.....

After removing the cowl pieces and cleaning up the wiper linkages.....


New cowl installed.....

 

I did a bit of work on Rufus on Easter sunday:

1) Replaced the foam in the rear trim vents:



2) Installed the BC coil over damper adjustment extenders (that have been sitting on a garage shelf for several years)



Lots of detail and more photos over on my Rufus thread: https://www.motoringalliance.com/threads/refreshing-rufus-2005-mcs-jcw.29878/page-28#post-432384

 

I didn’t do anything with my MINI today but I did see a nice F56 S this morning on my way to the recycling yard.

 

I put some groceries that I ordered for next week in the back, packing for the Dragon!

 

I say the same thing when I’m doing any number of projects …. then I think of alternative and I’m okay with it.

 

No I did not….small phone, arthritic fingers, and old eyes….a combination that virtually guarantees failure at some point.

 

I love texting. It lets me ask a question and get an answer back on the other person's timeframe. I'm minimizing the intrusion into whatever they are doing. I don't have to have a 5 min phone call about "Hi. How are you doing? How's your mother? Has her gout cleared up?" and I can get an answer to "Hey... mind if I keep the serpentine belt tool another few days and return it on Saturday afternoon?" when it's convenient for them to answer.

 

Both of you are probably right, but all I see are people on their phone checking what seems to be a lot of messages or reading the news. That's not me.