(if it ever comes!)
It seemed a bit silly having heated washer jets and snow tires installed on GPMINI today, with sun and 55 degrees! But supposedly it’s winter in New England so …
The heated washer jet retrofit (p/n 61 66 0 029 716) for some reason isn’t available from MINI USA – so I got it from MikeyTheMINI. Installation is quite easy – the jets are replaced, a wiring harness is added under the hood and wired back through the firewall to the fusebox in the driver footwell … The more important job was fitting snow tires to GPMINI – there’s no 18″ snow tires available, so I needed new wheels too. Initially I was going to use the 17″ S-lites but I just don’t like their look! So I paid extra to get 17″ bullet-spoke wheels … a much nicer look for GPMINI. The tires are Pirelli Winter 240 SnowSport 205/45R17 84V, and I bought MINI tire totes to keep the original wheels / tires nice.
So now we’ll see if it ever gets cold / snowy … but really I won’t mind too much if these snow tires get no use 😉
M&I / GBMINI 
Ian, wheels look great. nice to know all four tires fit in the back of the GP.
those are my favorite factory 17s
I see you got Gary to work on your car….
Great choice in 17’s! The car does look strange with such “bright” wheels. Miles better than S-Lites, though.
Yeah, I really like those wheels. Did you buy them new or used from MoP? New brakes this spring (hopefully) are going to dictate new wheels on Scrat.
Joe,
Both Gary & Bob were injured – so they worked together!
Brian,
I bought them new. the 17″ S-lites I debated were “take-offs” and much less pricey – but I paid extra for the looks 🙂
I agree…the bullets look much better than S-lites. But they still look huge to me!
I have tire totes as well and love them…but I didn’t know there was a mini branded version!