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Polished the left rear quarter panel. Shiny. Next panel tomorrow night.

 

I'm a fan of the PowerFlex control arm bushings. :beer

 

Thermostat, coolant flush, control arm bushings, oil pan gasket and power steering lines. FUN!

 

Cleaned it up and polished the glass. Think I finally got the last of the bugs off. Heading out at 0630 for a couple of days driving through the mountains of western NC and VA.

 

I finally finished polishing my headlights on Sunday, just in time to park my MINI at the airport to fly to Seattle. I knew I was in Washington when I saw this sign in my hotel room.

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Cleaned a bugzillion insect splatters off the front from the long weekend.

 

Got my first ding in the windshield of the F car. The Back of the Dragon’s got some weird rocks. They’ll just jump up in the air and hover until you run into it. :mad2:
Other than that it was a good day with beautiful weather. I’m headed home early tomorrow and taking the boring, but smooth roads home. Need to get there without the ding turning into a larger crack. Couldn’t get anyone to repair it this afternoon and the best they could do tomorrow was sometime between 8 and 5. Not sticking around the motel for that. :frown2:

 

They have some great roads down there. You can practically just go out and get lost and have a blast.

 

Woke up at 0300 yesterday and couldn't get back to sleep so decided to skip Econolodge's questionable free breakfast and head home. Uneventful trip except the interior lights were on the entire way. Seems I didn't close the boot hard enough and I was too damned tired and lazy to stop and correct it. It is actually solidly closed, but sometimes the switch needs the bump it gets when you close it a little harder. Picked my dog up from my Daughters house on the way, grabbed breakfast to go from Huddle House and finally made it home about 0800. Put almost 500 miles on the car and I didn't make any of the runs Thursday. SafeLite guy is supposed to be here this afternoon to repair the windshield. The ding grew about 1/4" on the trip home. Good trip over all. Didn't take a single picture so it might not have happened at all and this is just the ramblings of an old man. Guess I'll know for sure if the SafeLite guy shows up.

 

Finished paint polishing, vacuumed the garage, wiped down the car a few times, then one more thorough wipe down with Gyeon Prep. Tomorrow another one of those and then the Gyeon MOHS coating goes on the electric blue.

 

Remember with MOHS you only need to leave it on for a minute or so unless you are in a low humidity low temp area.

The colder it is the longer it takes to Flash, but when it’s really warm like 80 F and above I wipe off in less than a minute. The great thing about MOHS is if it gets to dry / tacky you can add a little on top of the tacky area and wipe it down ASAP and not have to repolish that area.

Have fun coating and make sure you use two towels for wiping off the coating one for the first wipe which removes most of the thick extra coating and the second towel catches the rest and allows you to polish the area to make sure all the extra coating is removed. Don’t mix the towels up, I have done that and it sucks.

I try and use at least 4 pairs of MF towels for the entire car. Also make sure you pull you car outside if it’s not raining to make sure you done have any High / dark areas before the coating cures.

Natural sunlight on a cloudy day is the best light for double checking your wipe down job. Then you can park your car inside for 5 days and let everything cute nice and hard. The longer it cures the better it will look.

Have fun !

 

Yesterday I changed the earl of crankcase in the German bread-van. I used my usual M1 0w40 & a Mann filter. Mann is this car easy to change the oil on. Popped in a new air filter too while the hood was open.

Now onto the MINI content of this post. Added a tankful of hydrocarbons & took a short drive.

 

Today I took my car out so I could get a new PA drivers license photo taken. 20 min in and out of the DMV. :cornut: Today is going to be a good day.

Ran some back roads in the cool weather to Delaware to pick up smokes and drove back home. Going out to look at a snow blower later today. :snowblower:

 

What's a snow blower?

 

You had your picture taken and they didn't arrest you on the spot. Wait a minute, that's the Post Office. Be careful mailing letters...

 

Dave make sure to buy the biggest & most expensive snowblower you can find. That will virtually guarantee there will be no snow. :yesnod:

 

About to open up the small bottle... I wiped it down one more time, have about 20 microfiber towels standing by, lights, gloves, mask, applicator foam is cut, etc. The temp in the garage is now 60F after heating it all morning. Outside it's 35F and raining, and it will be raining for the next 12-24 hours. Windy, misty drizzle crap, so outside inspection isn't happening. This isn't a show car, so I just want the stuff for the protection. It will hit the salty roads in a few weeks. Obviously I'll try my best to not have cloudy areas, given I spent a week and a half buffing that paint. I'll do two layers at least (small car, enough product) and maybe tomorrow a cure layer as they suggest in the video.

I have two more cars to perfect the technique if I like what will materialize in the garage today...

 

^^^^ cool and your color will not show very dark spots like black and red do. You should be fine with your set up.

 

Got three layers of MOHS on the car. Paint looks freaking incredible for a 12 year old car that other than being stored in winters has really not been taken care of. Amazing how well the bumper came out, given it had seem its fair share of gravel over the last 88k miles. The white paint on the roof looks better than new paint. Waiting 12 hours for the Cure application and then I'll probably keep it in the garage for the rest of the week. Not sure if I can take photos that do it justice. Will try something with my LED light strip. Always wanted to try some light painting inside the garage

 

Took mine to a place we’re all pretty familiar with today. Round trip including dragon runs was a little over 500 miles.


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