05 Cooper - Electric Blue - What decals?

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Hartge210 said:

hyperblue said:

Cheeky, did you get in the 14s?

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If your mate is into the forum side of ownership Tom, get him to try www.surreynewmini.co.uk

Nice friendly local bunch on there, very active with loads of meets/runs etc

He's been to several Sunday Services in my passenger seat, he's registered on here, but has yet to use it, have pointed him in the direction of MINI2 and will do the same for that!

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It's here! Took matey to pick it up this morning, think he's really chuffed with it. We took it for a good run around the Kentish countryside this morning/afternoon, fairly hard riding but meh, it's a sporty hatch, not bothered, seats are comfy, visibility is great, the engine sounds nice, it pulls hard, overtaking is a doddle, it's faster than it feels, sticks like st to a blanket too. Seems fairly long geared?

Think he's decided to just leave the roof as it is, but a special semi-integral Garmin SatNav system will probably be added by the dealer around Xmas.

A couple of quick phone pics at the dealers and next to my seemingly rather tubby Frenchy.

[Hartge210]

Nice looking car & a very happy looking owner

54 reg so should be a facelift model, he should have the Getrag gearbox which is much stronger than the older Midland, which was notorious for breaking .

Hindhead tunnel run coming up? (give me a shout)

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Yup, it's a Jan 05 on a 54, facelift indeed. Thank god, been out in it most of the day and he's still really forceful with the box and almost always in too higher gear! Midland 'box came up a lot on my research...

Yeah, the last one Jonny, Dean and myself put together went really well, but I've been watching the news stuff really closely on it. Hopefully by the time we're back for Christmas in early December things will have calmed down up there and we can sort something out. I'm only about a minute or so from the Hindhead Cross-roads or the Hazel Grove Junction!

Couple of quick snaps I took today:


DSC04274 by Waugh-terfall, on Flickr


DSC04285 by Waugh-terfall, on Flickr


DSC04304 by Waugh-terfall, on Flickr


DSC04306 by Waugh-terfall, on Flickr


DSC04313 by Waugh-terfall, on Flickr


DSC04330 by Waugh-terfall, on Flickr

Check out the face in this! Took it harder/faster than he meant to...

DSC04316 by Waugh-terfall, on Flickr

ETA: There is one decal going on, update in a few days...

Edited by Waugh-terfall on Thursday 6th October 01:26

[Hartge210]

Excellent photo's

Trying to work out how to fix my little camera inside the wife's Z4M, then that will get a quick run through the tunnel, a couple of other MINI owners want to try the accoustics out down there too, one of them is running 270bhp (300 ft/lbs) in his R56, should sound nice. I've already told them we'll be taking things easy either end of the tunnel, don't want to upset the lady in the dressing gown ;).

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Hartge210 said:

Excellent photo's

Trying to work out how to fix my little camera inside the wife's Z4M, then that will get a quick run through the tunnel, a couple of other MINI owners want to try the accoustics out down there too, one of them is running 270bhp (300 ft/lbs) in his R56, should sound nice. I've already told them we'll be taking things easy either end of the tunnel, don't want to upset the lady in the dressing gown ;).

Thanks, need some more lenses though! 270! What's Hyperblue's running these days?

I'd absolutely love a Clubman JCW next.

[Hartge210]

Think he's somewhere around the 260 mark (in his BRG car, affectionately known as the Green thing).

The more I see the JCW Clubbie the more I like them, one of the Dutch guys who's on Mini Torque owns this beauty

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Hartge210 said:

Think he's somewhere around the 260 mark (in his BRG car, affectionately known as the Green thing).

The more I see the JCW Clubbie the more I like them, one of the Dutch guys who's on Mini Torque owns this beauty

Frickin' love them!

I test drove a standard Clubman Cooper last year and that was pretty good. I'm not overly keen on those wheels, I'd kill for the one I've had as my laptops background since they appeared on the scene. Courtesy of the configurator and a little photoshop...

[Clivey]

Nice car (your friend's - not those naff 'Clubmans' ). Is he the one that used to have the old Polo? If so that's one hell of an upgrade!

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Clivey said:

Nice car (your friend's - not those naff 'Clubmans' ). Is he the one that used to have the old Polo? If so that's one hell of an upgrade!

Yeah, see his garage

mmmger

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1 week in:

How soft are the alloy wheels?!?!?!?!!!!

[hyperblue]

Waugh-terfall said:

1 week in:

How soft are the alloy wheels?!?!?!?!!!!

Made of cheese and very heavy. Time for some lightweight replacements

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Jesus. I scuffed the rim of my 207s NSF the other day when parking to the kerb, wheel dropped into a subsided drain, not obvious unless you look. Matey has managed to take a properly great, obvious, deep physical chunk out of his without even noticing!

ETA: Just noticed I have proof he did it in the photos above. Reckons it wasn't him, but eagle-eyed me gave the car a thorough going over before purchase and all four wheels were immaculate!.

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Make that two Near Side wheels...

[Hartge210]

Oh dear

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Actually, make that, I think it's a write-off...

[Hartge210]

Jeeesus, what's he done

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Hartge210 said:

Jeeesus, what's he done

Out for a leisurely afternoon drive, beach-ward bound, Mier, my mate, got a bit overzealous, tried to take a sharp right hand corner way too fast on this NSL road through the woods. I yelled out because I knew we'd not make it, but it was too late, front end let go and we smashed into a crash barrier doing around 50mph. I'd put my arms up in front of me so the airbag deployed and I basically punched myself in the face, slightly singed tender patch on my hand, sore nose and because I'm rather tall the dashboard came back into my leg and caused severe bruising on my shin. Can't turn my neck to the right at the moment either.

He's okay, sore nose and a nasty burn on his arm from the seat belt. The MINI did a sterling job of keeping us safe and the barrier, now more than a bit flat did a great job of slowing us down and keeping us out of the massive trees. We were bounced back across the road (thankfully no other cars) and into a ditch on the other side, thankfully coming to a stop about 4ft back from a huge tree. As soon as the dust cleared and we could see again we piled out and a few cars had stopped. 2 Police cars sorting traffic out, a huge Ford F550 Super Duty recovery truck and a trip to the Hospital later we're back home. Car looks fine from the back and drivers side, my side is mashed. Missing that corner at the front, the wheelarches, the door and rear quarter are caved, both wheels on that side are buggered and the front one is almost in the passenger door, which amazingly opened fine, windscreen is smashed too. He and I went back to the scene this afternoon once my leg stopped hurting so much to take photos, see what had happened and pick up bits of MINI. We're going to see the car tomorrow afternoon.

11 days is how long this MINI Adventure lasted, hopefully it can be repaired, I'm not overly optimistic, but a bit of luck would be nice. I think he wants to wait until the insurance stuff is sorted out before any pictures are seen.

Edited by Waugh-terfall on Monday 17th October 13:46

[zetec02]

Gutted, did look like a nice car. I was wondering at the petrol pump if the other day if I should have gone for just a cooper.
Sadly from the sounds off it it will be a write off. Doesn't sound like someone I would want a lift from!

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Fingers are crossed for it! It was a lovely car. It's not going to stop me getting in the car with him as I think he's learned a hard lesson and hopefully will take notice of the many warnings I've given him about paying attention, not showing off, brutality with the gearbox and minding kerbs etc and any I give him in the future.