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General MINI TalkShared experiences, motoring minutes, and other general MINI-related discussion that applies to all MINIs, regardless of model, year or trim.
I flushed out my cooling system and put fresh new blue BMW/MINI coolant back in. Discovered that the dealership that did the last coolant service used standard green coolant!
What MINI dealership did the last coolant service?
Ordered some Black with red border hood stripes and JCW Mirror covers.
Please post some pix when you have them installed. Are you applying stripes yourself or having a shop do it? If you are doing it, please post some advice/pix if you can.
Just got my R53 back from WMW. He put an ATI Super Damper on for me and wow what a difference. Plus he stuck around to answer some definite Noob questions I had. Thanks for all the help Way!
Please post some pix when you have them installed. Are you applying stripes yourself or having a shop do it? If you are doing it, please post some advice/pix if you can.
Will do. I am installing myself. Ive done some vinyl wrap of small stuff so what the heck. I have been wrenching a long time on a lot harder things, I think.
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Replaced the crank position sensor seal (without putting it in service access mode), and made a video for my sister to show her a less time-consuming way to replace the horn on her R53.
Cleaned and washed the Blue Meanie yesterday. sadly, no other MINI's were at the Cars and Coffee this morning! I parked in the German row though with lots of BMW's. My son parked in the Miata lane, but only a few...strange. Lots of newer cameroes and WRX's. Weird. The only classics was a really nice '68 VW Bus and a 67 Caprice rat-rod with bags. Hum? Oh well, next time.
After a few drives with the Ziza fog lights, I really like them! Much brighter than the factory setup. I am currently running the OEM HIDs, Ziza Platinum White fog lights and the LED driving lights.
Today I stripped the ECS Tuning strut plates, the cabrio braces, MSD ignition, spark plug wires off the car and installed the OEM parts in its place. I also installed a new coolant expansion tank and added new coolant. After doing all that I lowered the price for the MINI on CL and am hoping to sell soon. I am also selling some of those and other aftermarket parts if anyone is interested.
Installed new wheels today BBS RK. My other wheels team dynamics with tires are going for sale
Car looks great! Got my "new to me" RGRs today, will be mounted once I get the appropriate centering rings
Nothing too special for mine otherwise, just a quick wash, clay and wax. Also figured I'd bust out the real camera, since all the pics I had until now were crappy cell phone pics.
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Nice wheels! How noticeable are the markings between the lugnuts on the RGR's? From the pic at the Tire Rack, it looks like BBS put the size, offset, and the model number on the face of the rim by the center cap.
Installed these today to go with the new sway bar. Pretty substantial difference over stock links and a must have, in my opinion, with an aftermarket sway bar.