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[GottaDesigner]

Solved the leak caused by fitting his new headlining last Saturday. Windscreen seal had been split in the process.

Popped to Oldskool, who had a minor war finding a new seal that fitted and getting Monty to accept it. (He's a temperamental little sod at times) Got it fitted. So no wet feet when driving in the rain now

Paid in liquid currency.

Went to Tesco, did some shopping... and got agitated at some numpty wanting to wash/scratch Monty to death and charge me a fiver for it. Told him to hop off and made an agreement to get my aft out of bed early tomorrow and clean the poor lil thing.

[sazal]

I spent 4 hours this morning, washing, drying, clay barring and waxing my Mini ready for the Crich show tomorrow! Shes all shiney shiney now.

[Linzi]

Checked vacuum lines and elbow joints, decided they where broked, ordered new ones.

Fitted lambda sensor, what a pain, getting your hands down back of engine only removing the throttle body and inlet isnt easy, not to mention fitting a spanner down!! Though next time it will be easier as we now have a specially modified lambda sensor spanner (we cut one in half so it would fit down back of engine) but dont worry we have another two the same size for all other jobs

Gave him a good wash and polish.

Edited by Linzi, 25 July 2009 - 08:22 PM.

[dickster]

Dropped mine off at the bodyshop where it'll be returned to tip-top condition with a retro look to it-can't wait!

[Jimmy Hat]

I spent 4 hours this morning, washing, drying, clay barring and waxing my Mini ready for the Crich show tomorrow! Shes all shiney shiney now.

Today I realised I'm gonna miss Crich, sent Floyd off to have his sills seen to and that's pretty much it!

[ZED]

took arvy round the m25 to north london and back, about 140 miles.

[1984mini25]

The 25, nothing but stick petrol in one end and drive it, although the gearbox has been making funny noises.

Mayfair, you must be joking right, haven’t done anything, apart form use it as extra storage space for the last few months.

Instead I had to move my new gf mini from it’s old home to it’s new one, didn’t go too badly apart from the fact it wouldn’t idle at anything below 2k, the indicators stopped working and the gear linkage is a luck dip.

So my job/s for tomorrow (today) give it a good wash and polish as it’ been sat outside under some trees for a good few months.
Play around with the idle and gear linkage so it’s actually drivable.
Fix the indicators and generally give it a good going over inside and out.

[Leekr89]

swapped my mini 30 interior for a cobra monaco interior set, changed my hif38 carb to a hs4 and green cotton cone filter, now its running abit slow so more fiddling with the carb!

[skaterava]

ive had the car for coming up to 4 years, but because ive been a student in that time i havent accumulated any wealth to put into the car. Blew most of my money insuring it and for petrol.

fitted 4 6x9's, two in the parcel shelf and two under the rear seats, with a Pioneer head unit. Bass is decent but i'll improve on it when i get some more cash . Fitted clear front and side indicators, chrome grille, clear lenses on the taillights, swapped the ugly steel wheels for 12x5 minilites (im hoping to get 12x6 deep dishers, anyone who's got a set for sale PM me) got myself some custom mats with the Mini logo and my name stitched on them ...oh, and i painted my brake calipers at the front blue. starting to regret it though, the colour doesnt match well.

[pod51]

Sanded the sills down & repainted with hammerite smooth.

Stripped the shoddy fitting carpets out, stripped out the underfelt stuff, found loads of little holes, filled the holes, sanded the filler, resprayed the floor and bench frame, stood back admired my work, smoked a B&H then drank some tea with some lovely dunkable foxes butter crinkle biscuits. Days work done now for a curry and wait for top gear.

[stirx]

I bought a cd player from argos and a kickboard from optimise to hold the speakers i bought for minims! all with a red colour scheme to match minims' mini 25 red and grey interior

[scoticus]

lost his keys


ah well... its all good

[rick.spi]

went out to the garage, took one look at my mini and thought "why cant the new engine be built and arive quicker" haha

[leaky]

I got the punture I had in my rear drivers side tyre fixed.

[millermilla]

Today I gave my little trailer the ERA treatment. It now looks less like a Cooper sport and more like an ERA