What did you do with your MINI today?

I started Checkers today. It started just fine after not running for around 30 days. On June 11 & 12 it's American graffiti time here. I live in Modesto , Ca where they filed it. They have it every year. I was thinking of seeing if I could show Checkers but I'm not sure with all the classic & hot rods it might kind of stand out.

 

As nice as your car is it would standout everywhere but I understand what you mean.

 

I was going to take Checkers out for a run today but believe it or not it might rain a little later so no drive today. Weather report says next weekend it's going to be in the100's so I'll wait till then.

 

I washed Rufus a few weeks back... finally got around to putting the cover back on as I was going to do some work in the garage and didn't want to cover him w/ saw dust.

 

I keep mine covered up at all times unless I'm driving. I even carrier a cover in my car when I travel.

 

I only cover when the car is clean and tucked away in the garage. IMHO, covering a car w/ a dirty surface (especially outside w/ some wind) is asking for swirls / micro-abrasion. This is what I've been taught and I'm by no means an expert. My cover is really there to prevent dust build-up, give some UV blocking and, mostly, give me a bit of cushion from something brushing up against the car while stored in the garage.

 

That makes sense, but in my case I'm a little nuts about keep it clean. Most of the time I wash it every time I drive it and then cover it. I also have it ceramic coated every year if needed. So no swirls or rub marks.

 

I want to get a car cover so when it is sitting for a while garaged it won’t get a layer of dust.

 

Here's Rufus in his indoors-only PJs.

 

Thanks! We bought our house about 6 years back and I was going to paint/epoxy the floor, but the previous owner had a car that leaked oil like crazy. I was worried about adhesion in the oil spot, so decided to try the tiles instead. I think it took me 2-3 hours to put the tiles down (most of the time was spent cutting the perimeter tiles) and it was super handy as we used the garage to store boxes as we moved in to the house and I never had to worry about boxes on a damp concrete floor as the tiles had them elevated and had air-flow underneath. I think I paid about $1.5k for the tiles and did all of the work myself on a Saturday morning.

I have a couple of dented spots where I tried to lift my daily-driver SUV with a floor jack, but I bought 10+ spare tiles in each color, so I just popped out the dented tile and snapped in a new one (5 min fix). If I worked on a car heavier than the MINI often, I'd probably not choose the draining tiles that I put directly under each car. Those draining tiles also make it a PITA when you drop a screw or nut as they drop into the drainage slots. I've had to lift a few tiles to find a lost screw before... Not a problem on the standard tiles.

https://www.garageflooringllc.com/garage-floor-tiles/

 

Took Checkers out for a drink of water today. Checked with the tire shop for an alignment check ,but I'll have to wait until Monday. That's a good excuse to drive it again and test the new alignment. Fun fun.

 

I'm a little bored today so I was going through some of my old repairs on my car. I was wondering how many miles my engine has on it since I blow it up. My car has 44k but it blow up when it had 20,534k back in 2007. That got expensive. I did have a good excuse the wife was driving it ( the only time) when it blow. I was going to blame her, but she felt so bad I told her the real reason. It's kind of interesting going over what I've done to it.

 

I was tolled that it was running very lean and over heated blow a hole through the head ( it was a brand new head from RMW) . I had been making a few changes ( head , cam, injector's and a few other things) and was going to get it tuned, but before I could BOOM. That is why I now have a full set of gauges (boost, oil pressure & temp water temp and AFR)

 

Did a quick wash and drove to a grandsons flag football game.