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Milltek cat back resonated ordered for the dark silver fun car. Gotta boost the economy where you can even when the car is about to go into storage for 4 months. ECS had a deal I could not ignore.

 

Indians are #1 G.I.:beer

 

It was over 60 degrees in Chicagoland today, so a quick wash, and then swapped to snow tires for both MINIs..

I'll be storing a car for a friend over the winter starting tomorrow, so I wont have much room to do work on mine for a while.

 

My MINI has a garage mate for the winter.. Storing it for a friend.
Space is going to be tight for a while.

 

after 2 years of not finding my recycling center sticker, I finally got some new ones, and it was high time to clean out the garage. About 15 gallons of oil, 4 gallons antifreeze, several sets of brake disks, drive axles, a-arms, Koni FSDs with rotten lowering sprinngs, anti roll bars, down links, pulleys, control arms, you name it, it was in my garage.


garage cleanup

 

oh, and when I got home, the car got a well earned vacuuming. There were about 20 card board boxes under all that junk, but rust flakes got to the carpet in spite of all that. There was actually even more scrap metal in the car than this image shows. The ride height went down to stancer territory

 

Actually yesterday, but GIR finally made blacktop after 6 months. Started as a suspension upgrade and worked out to be few other issues along the way. Kudos to the members here, a wealth of knowledge that saved me a lot of headaches and even more $$$$. I had some time over this holiday to turn wrenches, took it out to check ride height and had to take a pic.

 

nice to see a real original GP on the road.

 

Thanks, way to much fun to drive to let rot in a garage. Should hit 100k by the end of summer 2018!

 

Filled it up with Shell 'V-Power' 93 (as usual).

 

Made the weekly trek out to the garage to start up the both of them... Mine and the one I'm currently storing for my buddy.

 

I drove my MINI 350 miles from Port Arthur to Dallas through the piney woods of East Texas. The weather was great, the traffic was light, and it was a pleasant drive. Tomorrow, I clean a couple million bugs off the MINI.



CD

 

Took in the 16 Countryman for an out of cycle oil change, since I like to keep it fresh for winter. Dealership is new with a new car wash, today I forgot to tell them no wash, the free wash put a layer of scum on my paint, I had to use a detailer spray to clear it off. Must be bad soap, not to say what the those damn brushes did to my finish.

Time to detail once again....

Drove 120 miles back and forth for 1.5 hours work. Something makes me think I need to do this only 1 time per year.

Don

 

Bug season is over for us up north. It’s too cold now.

 

I took GIR to the shop and had an alignment done. WOW, what a difference the coilovers make. IMO a smoother ride than the JCW struts, although I do have them set pretty soft, nice none the less. I get a little noise when backing up into a turn, something new to figure out I guess.

 

Today, I gave up on trying to adjust my headlights on my 2005 R52. Going to an independent garage. What a ***** !!!!!! It's no wonder that MINI invented a special tool to do the with. GRRRR...

 

Lighting adjustments...

WHITE LED position lamps.

YELLOW fog light bulbs.

JCW LED puddle lamps... replacing the BMW ones that originally were sent to me from China.

I'm thinking about taking the BMW film out of the first set I tried and just having very bright downward firing spot lights (Amazon returns to sellers in China usually results in a "Here's your money, Yankee Dog. Keep 'em!" message back).

 

East Texas always puts the 'pepper' into Pepper White for me. ;-)