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Ditched the lovely runflat tires on my Cooper S, because one of them popped like a balloon. Replaced the power steering pump fan that was noisy due to a bad bearing. Mini wants nearly $200 for this part. I found their OEM supplier of the fan, and got it from them for half, and mounted it to the bracket. Some bolts and some solder, heat shrink tubing, and some high temperature tape and I saved half, like the cheap jew I am.
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Piano posted:Used? Didn't think those could be had for less than 200ish yet? Pawn shops. Problem is, they only have those deals when I'm already broke.
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some texas redneck posted:I put gas in it today. I had both a 94 and 2000 altima. Both stock speakers sounded like rear end, and both stock speakers were dried up and destroyed by the Phoenix sun. I guess Nissan makes those speakers out of tissue paper or something [content] I wired up the V1 again, this time hiding the unit behind the mirror, with just enough of it showing so the rear dingus works, and can detect radar from the rear. Found out why my scangauge wasn't working, I managed to pull the fuse that was marked as "sunroof" (which my car does not have) for a circuit doubler. Apparently BMW/MINI decided that'd be a great circuit to run the ODBII dingus off of, too.  Once it gets warmer out, it's clean the cooper day
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eddiewalker posted:I don't know if you know, but if you plug another RJ connector into the other jack on the V1 remote mounting power supply, you can rig up a remote mute/mode change button by connecting "data2" and ground as in this diagram. The V1 remote display does the same thing, but with a 10k resistor inline, so I added one to be safe. Yeah, I bought the remote display when I bought the V1:  I'm a big fan of making these things as stealthy as possible. The removable pivoted lower dash on the coopers makes it very simple to wire these kinds of things up.
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VolumeOverTalent posted:Are V1s really as good as I've heard? I'm in the UK so it'd cost me around £300 for one, is it really worth the money? I'm not an über expert on detectors, but I've had a lot of midrange detectors from other vendors, then I bought the V1 back in 2003. The V1 is nice because it'll give you a "bogey count", telling you how many sources it detects, and it'll tell you generally where the bogey is (in front or behind you). It also falses less than any detector I've ever had, even on the "filter almost nothing/highway" mode I have mine in. I have yet (knock on wood) gotten a speeding ticket in any car it's been in. It probably helps that most cops around in Texas leave their radar on constantly. I think other vendors lately have caught up to V1, and V1 hasn't changed much since 2003ish, so i'd be interested what a real expert says. I like it better than any other detector i've used. nitrogen fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Oct 2, 2010 |
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I jacked off my Cooper S. Really. Ok, I took the stupid Union Jack roof Vinyl decal of the roof. It went from this:  to this: (lovely cameraphone pic)  The plain black mirror caps are on order. I also cleaned a shitload of bugs out of the radiator and intercooler. drat the intercooler is a fuckin' bug MAGNET. nitrogen fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Oct 9, 2010 |
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