Getting ready to head out for the Durham VA to visit my friendly neighborhood Plastic surgeon for a follow up. Raining cats and the occasional dog. Better than the northern part of the county though. They had nowhere from 3-5 inches of hail yesterday. Not really big stuff, just a lot of it. After the VA it's on to my Mini dealer to have them replace the TMAP under warranty.
Ordered a new grill first thing this morning, found the current one has 5 broken parts plus PO glued the pegs because he broke the threads apparently. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Finished my crappy looking bikini top prototype. Looks like poo, but works amazingly well. No flapping, nice and calm inside. I'm sure some rain will still find its way in around the sides and back, but it will be much drier than without.
Washed the 11, immediate rain shower on the the last wipe of the Hydro. Crap! Waxed a bit on the 16 for the trip to the Dragon, will polish a bit on Saturday morning. Not a full blown detail, just a little road protection. Saturday 90% Thunder storms predicted, figures I am driving on Monday.
Car is packed, license plate light lens replaced... Just have one more day of work and it's off to the dragon for this guy.
Yesterday I had all my ducks in a row preparing for the Dragon. My MINI was dirty, but ready for the road. I took it out for a test drive. Going down a hill, about 3 min into the drive...my car goes into limp mode and smoke starts billowing from the passenger side wheel well. I stop immediately, get out of the car...and find that the matt that I kept on my garage floor had wrapped itself around the tire and was smoking like hell. Pulled the matt out, Car started, but the CEL was on. All my indicators on my scan gauge were normal, so I kept on driving. After a couple of errands, the CEL went off and everything is back to normal. Exciting times...
Teddy, are you driving with us on Tuesday or are you going to drive solo? I'll be at the KY rest area out of cincy around 10:30
I'm tired of looking at it sitting in the garage waxed, detailed, semi loaded with stuff for MOTD. Tues. can't come quick enough.
Jeff. I've been waiting to get back to you. I will be happy to drive with you (think Avitar I'll have coffee and donuts...
I'm picking up my buddy around 8:30 and we'll head on down to that Rest Area...should be there between 10 and 10:30ish. By then, the morning coffee will have worked its way thru my system and I'll NEED that stop...LOL I'm bringing my S...it's Royal Grey and has dragon orange holeys and a dragon on the sunroof [pretty easy to spot].
