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

Nope.

CD

 

My MINI needs a wash, but I'm going to leave it at the airport in two days, so I'm going to wait until I get back from Scottsdale.

CD

 

Just got an 05 MCS. It has DDM Works intake, catback exhaust, and I just noticed that it has the 17% pulley. Do I need to upgrade the intercooler at all?

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Crap! I just read that we may get sleet/ice Monday night, which means TX-DOT will be spreading sand on bridges and overpasses. By "sand," I mean this really grainy dirt with small rocks in it. Good thing I didn't decide to wash the MINI. In fact, I need to get some really wide masking tape and do some "track-day" taping, to protect my frontal surfaces from sand-blasting and stone chips.

CD

 

I appreciate the info about keeping the stock intercooler. I am here in the south too, Savannah area. I'll look into the meth thing too.

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My grandfather had a 1936 Mercedes Benz 540K touring car. My dad said it was in the garage on blocks during the war. After the war he sold the Mercedes and got a 1948 Lagonda Rapide.

 

That 540K would be worth some serious coin, today. Too bad you don't have it.

CD

 

Over the last 2 days I managed to get my MINI full of salt........ I thought I moved away from the Great North to avoid this crap. Saturday she'll be getting a MUCH needed pass thru a car wash to rinse out her crevices. So much for having a Florida car

 

You can remove ceramic coatings. You have to use a buffer with a rather aggressive compound like HD Cut and a soft polishing pad like a Rupes white pad and not a Rupes Yellow or or Green or a Lake County Orange cutting pad.

If I did your car I would need it for a few days one to completely wash and polish the car then a day or two to keep it inside while the coating cures under my lights. The car can not get wet for first 24 hours and not be washed for a week. That’s why I do not do coatings for people at the Dragon.

 

Gassed up the 11 Countryman on Saturday, it was about 60 degrees out, guess I have nowhere to go today as we are at 4 inches of new snow and 28 degrees today.

The MINIs will be fine in the garage, not dirty but a bit dusty, my 16 Countryman is blocked by the snowblower anyway!

Have a great day.

Don

 

I was planning to get my MINI washed today, but ran out of time. It is really dirty from the sand (dirt) TXDOT spread on the bridges and overpasses last week for ice. Heavy rains yesterday washed most of that stuff off the road. Time for a good wash.

CD

 

Goldsmithy, I'm 56-years-old and white, living in the Texas burbs, so I never get pulled over. I could more-than-likely get away with no front plate. And, the fine is not that big of a deal. But, making it a misdemeanor changes things. I could probably do a deferred adjudication deal in court, but that is a PITA, too.

CD

 

I think that is what I am going to do. Just ordered new stock tensioner, coming with the idler pulley too. I'll get that belt too. I have the K060535 at the moment. I think the Alta tensioner stop was tightened out too much and was maybe affecting the performance too. Thanks for the advice!!

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Can you see the rubber without pulling the crank pulley. Just from visually looking at it, it looks good. No cracks that I can see

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No matter how convoluted the journey when the end justifies the means it's all good.

 

I noticed yesterday that I had a license plate light out, so I got a new one. What a PITA to replace. You need a special tool, or Trump sized hands to put the new bulb in. It took me 15 minutes and a lot of cursing to get the new bulb in right.

CD