Look at what Chad sent me. For those of you that don’t know what that is, it is a passenger lower trim piece for a 2003 R50 MINI Cooper. Oddly enough, the exact same piece that I have been missing for a few years. The exact same piece that has been driving you crazy that …
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Side Scuttles
As you can see from the example above, you could say I’m way overdue for replacements. The other side is completely broken as well so it is definitely time. I’m always amazed when there are huge arguements about them. I mean, it’s just some ornamental trim on the side of the MINI. But, amazingly, when …
Door handle repair
See that? That is the door lock mechanism for a MINI Cooper (click through for the how-to at NAM). For those of you that follow along at twitter, you might remember reading last week that my door stopped opening from the inside. So, since I was successful in the fuel pump replacement on Friday, this …
My First
My fuel pump cherry was busted wide open today. After 230k miles and pumping over 8k gallons of fuel, I’m ok with that. For those of you wondering, this job is very simple unless you have issues with the smell of petrol. Took me about 20 minutes start to finish using nothing more than a …
It helps when I add a title
Did you see this post that Gabe recently posted on Motoringfile? Ok we’ve had it. We need a break from our regular programing to say a few things. We all critique MINI and wish it had this and that but the truth is we are MotoringFile and we love this damn car. There’s nothing else …