For the first time in a very long time, I have planned a MINI Cooper Rally. Filed under how I keep myself occupied while the show is on hiatus (ending Monday!). Myself and a fellow AZ R50 MINI Cooper owner decided to put a little something together that takes advantage of the maddeningly straight and …
Category Archives: My MINI
So, this happened
So, yea.
From the Tire Shop
I’m at the tire shop last trying to get a repair done. Turns out I couldn’t because that’s what happens when you run over a razor blade and it shoots into your rear tires like a baseball through a pitch machine. But that’s not what’s is important. I park. I go inside, then outside with …
From the ‘This is New’ files
As seen on Instagram. Follow donburnside for more. A common problem with some of the early generation MINIs was that of spark plugs popping out of the cylinder. I say common, more like something that was heard of every now and again. Mostly with the R53s, the threads in the cylinder head where the plugs …
Repair Log: 256,876
Another day, another repair. This time more maintenance than anything else; front brakes. Been awhile since I had last done them and they were due. Pads were down to a thickness that was the same as maybe 5 sheets of paper? Rotors were still in pretty ok shape and I probably could have turned them …