I have just remembered that recently I hit my 20th year in the MINI community. 20 years. Jesus, that’s a long time. While I haven’t had nearly as many MINIs as most of you have (on my fourth), that’s still quite a few cars to own over the span of that many years. Started a …
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The 2016 MINI Superlaggera?
As the kids say, tell me db got a new MINI without telling me he got a new MINI? If you know you know. After the window completely delaminated for the 2nd time in the roadster, I was done. With 105K miles on the clock, there were also some issues that needed to be tended …
Repair Log: 95,000
A quick review does show me the last repairs done on this MINI, and here I was today, hanging out in the shop with Jerry, thinking it was lost for good. Whew. While I’m failing lately at being a blogger, it’s good to know that I’m still keeping this going as a journal, somewhat. Anyway, …
MINI Roadster Rear Window Repair
I own a car with a canvas top. I knew this particular job would be dangerous when I took it, but I didn’t know to what extent, until this happened. Roadster Window delaminating from the top Fearing the worse, I check with the dealer about a repair. No go, as you would expect. I posted …
My Ride for a Day
This guy is mine for 24 hours. I specifically requested a Cooper even. A few things have been going on for the past few weeks. Let’s play catch-up! To start with, Bruce has been leaking like a sieve, needing more than 1 gallon of coolant over than past week and change. Secondly, I have been …