Ever wonder how I’ve managed to put 169K+ miles on my MINI in a little over 4 years? Here is a sample of my driving from the last 7 days. Wednesday: Work and back, 110 miles. Thursday: Southbay MINI and back, 160 miles. Friday: Work and back, 110 miles (bonus is the 3.5 hour commute …
Category Archives: My MINI
All fives?
Went in for service last week. Having over 150K miles can really put a dent in a guys wallet. Consider yourself warned. My wish list has exceeded US$4K, with almost half of that in labor (7 hours to replace front suspension components? Ugh). But that is not while I am writing here today. My service …
Bad Drivers
I know I have posted about this before, but since the eclipse last week and everyone going back to school and work this week, it has gotten completely out of control! I’m not talking only about you that get on the highway at 10-15MPH slower than the posted speed. No! There are many, many more. …
Really getting up there
That’s 35K until I hit (hopefully) 200K miles. Rough calculations and previous experience says it will take me a little less than a year to hit that mark. I’m actually going to try to hit it by AMVIV5 (which will be the end of March). 35K miles in 7 months. Looks like I have some …
More Control Arms
That is what the rear control arm from the drivers side of my MINI looked like. See where the bend starts? That exactly the same spot on the passenger side where the break occured. Removing this one took a bit more work than removing the broken one. Although the bend doesn’t look that severe, it …