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...sorry....Sully.

 

Replaced the battery today. Almost four years to the day. I swear they must put a chip in batteries to make them fail right on schedule.

I wet sanded my headlights last weekend, and went to polish them, and the velcro backer plate for my buffer failed. It took me until today to get a new one. I should have just ordered online. It was a biatche to find one locally.

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Drove Dark Silver to the store and when I got home enjoyed the last view of that zero as first digit

 

I'm still on the original seven year old battery in my MINI. No problems yet.

 

I'm going to hit six years next month.

 

I replaced the OEM one in my 09 Clubby this year...just because.......

 

Not on the family MINI, but on the German bread-van. For the last week or so the battery seemed to crank a bit slow. I wasn't sure if it was my imagination or the battery. Well yesterday morning my suspicions were confirmed. Bought a new AGM battery & man does the starter turn faster now. CD the oem battery was almost exactly 4 years old. I think this one will last longer. :fingerscrossed:

 

Till now! Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn!

 

I'm betting the 7-8 year old batteries are in a place with moderate temps. The summer heat of Texas used to eat batteries.

 

Still on the original 11 year old battery in NW Ohio. Although this winter will probably see an end to it.

 

multi tasking today - coolant refill and drain and another refill to get the green crap out the previous owner put in there. put the passenger seat back in and deleted airbag codes (Creator C310 scan tool - a great $40 investment, no dealer visit for me). Also working in the rear seat delete cover plate. Second one I am building, so it's a v. 2.0 of my original design. Inhaling 3M spray glue and all kinds of other good thing, so we're all smiles in the garage Even got two of the 4 wheels back on the car, the other two will follow when the coolant is swapped out one more time, which I when the bumper goes back on. Electric Blue daily driver getting close to a road test. Engine is humming fine, no leaks, fan working in two stages. I can't believe I didn't screw anything up...

 

Same brand and almost to the month identical batteries in red and dark silver car died this spring in the same week. I think they were AC Delco and about 5 years old. The cars are 12 years old, although one has 35k miles, the other has 100k on the clock. I do have that third Mini with a no-name battery that is pushing 5 years as well. Last person who installed it was a hack, ripped off vent tube and stuffed the new battery on top of that gray tube, even though the battery Does have the provisions for venting through the tube. So I fixed all that and used some heat shrink and Teflon tubing to replace the permanently flattened tubing.

Anyway, battery so far works fine, but when it get really cold, that car will be out there in -10F and I am just going to swap one of the new batteries into that car before I learn the hard way that even this battery was on its way out.

 

Did some coding on the car using the bimmercode app. Works like a champ and easier than using a laptop and cable, at least for me.

 

Went shopping for a 2nd hand MINI for my daughter. I won't let her have mine. Hopeful to find something she can afford. MINI Advisor at our local MINI dealer found some very nice deals and told us not to worry about the price. He will arrange for her to get it at their cost (trade in value) +$500.

Since she wants a manual transmission car, a deal should be doable. But she's in the middle of midterms, then projects, then final exams in her graduating year at University. Maybe they can squeeze in a graduation discount too.
So probably won't actually buy a car until December.

 

Sure sounds like a plan.

 

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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