100K+ miles?

Posted in My MINI — by db on 07/30/07

Does your odometer have a 1 followed by 5 digits? Are you getting close? I thought I would take a moment to offer a reminder of some things that you might want to keep an eye on as your MINI creeps up in miles.

My MINI is a November ’02 build 2003 Cooper. Starting at 90K miles, besides normal maintenance, I have had to do the following:

Brakes. At 90K and 160K (love those EBC pads!)
Replace the Battery
Replace the A/C unit
Replace the spark plugs (about 140K I believe)
Replace the plug wires (past due. Should have with the new plugs)

Still needs to be done

Wiring harness replaced
Airbag light fixed

I’m getting error lights every now and again and I’m told by my service department that I have a bad wiring harness. I remember it was and expensive fix. I’m not sure about the airbag light tho. It was fixed twice under the extended warranty, but it came back on both times.

If you have an MCS and your are getting up and over 100K miles, you might want to start getting pricing for a super charger replacement. I’ve heard of 1 that has gone over 150K miles, but all of the others fail at about 120K. You don’t want to get stranded one night if it should fail.

Other things you might need or want

Sunblock refill. With all that motoring, you must be getting low!
New rechargeable battery for your camera or a flickr pro account. Come on, you know you want to!
Update your bookmark to Motoringfile.com (it’s hasn’t been bridger.us/mini in a very long time. Let it go).
Post a pic of your odometer to let everyone else know how much you motor!
even with all of those miles, there has to be someplace you haven’t been. Now would be the perfect time to go there

And, if you are worrying, don’t! Besides the things I’ve listed above, my MINI has been rock solid!

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WRR Live tonight

Posted in podcasts — by db on 07/26/07

This is done, but there is a good chance we might go live August 2nd. Watch this space for more info.

Over at Motoringfile.com, Gabe and I are doing the show, live tonight.

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Motoringfile Server Switch tonight completed

Posted in MINI blogs — by db on 07/24/07

Motoringfile should be good to go for all of you by now! Go on over and read the Stracco interview!

From motoringfile.com, if you missed it.

Late (as in after 1am EST/-5 GMT) MotoringFile will be moving to a new and more robust server and host. Anytime a site moves hosts the DNS must change around the web. That can mean different downtime depending on your ISP.

Typical downtime can be just a few hours – meaning that the site will be back online by the morning. However in some cases your ISP might not update DNS as frequently and downtime can range as high as 24 hours. However that is fairly rare and probably won’t affect but a few. For readers in the UK and Europe, your morning browsing may be slightly affected again depending on your ISP’s ability to update DNS.

What do you have to do? Nothing. Bookmarks and RSS feeds will stay the same. You can just sit back and enjoy a new and shiny MF (most likely) by Wednesday morning.

I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce you to OpenDNS.com. If you were using their settings for your DNS settings on your computer or router, you would be seeing Motoringfile.com right away, much like I am. It’s fast, safer than what you are using and smart (knows when you typo .cmo that you meant .com).

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