‘Twas the Sunday before AMVIV X and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for me writing this blog post about a few things. Wait. That didn’t quite work. No matter. AMVIV is this week. Roxy and I will be heading to Vegas on Thursday with a few other Arizona MINI peeps. …
Category Archives: My MINI
This was long overdue
A few years ago, my headlights started to discolor. Slowly but surely, until they ended up almost completely yellowed and hazed over as you can see above. More than once I had the lads at the car wash do what they could with chemicals, but it was only a temporary fix. Time for the tools! …
Update: 272,233
The latest piece is keeping Roxy going to 300K miles is to fix the small oil leaks. This week, it was replacing the valve cover gasket and the spark plug gaskets. It’s another on the long list of things that I should have done a year or more ago. Since I started smelling burning oil, …
Notes and updates
A few more things taken care of. A few more things I need to do
10 years later
10 years ago today I brought my MINI, Roxy, home for the first time. Since then, I have logged 271,744 miles. And it is still the best car I have ever owned. For the nerds out there, some crazy stats. Approximately 550 car washes About 200 quarts of oil Over 10,000 gallons of gasoline 2 …