MINI of Peabody’s Motor Zone

Posted on by Ian C.

MINI of Peabody has created a new website for themselves, planned to be more “blog like” than the normal MINI USA created sales site.
Of interest to local MINI skiers is an announcement about Ragged Mountain Resort’s Green Day 2009 … I have meant to post a similar announcement for a while, but it didn’t seem to fit into my normal posting (in as much as I don’t ski – and their website auto-plays annoying music!), but being prompted by the new MoP website, here goes:
… We are planning a Green Day event for March 14, 2009. The purpose of the event is to provide people with ways they can live a more environmentally conscious life. We will be having several vendors on-site, all of whom have been selected because they are environmentally friendly businesses. As a MINI driver, I am aware that MINI is doing a lot to make the automobile industry greener. I felt it would be beneficial to the event and to MINI to have a presence here because as you probably know there are no MINI dealerships in NH, ME, or VT. As such, we are offering discounted lift tickets for people who arrive in their MINIs.
I would love your help in getting MINI drivers …

They go on to ask that I send an announcement out to our MINIsOnTop list, but I’m not prepared to do that!

Twisty badges

Posted on by Ian C.

TwistyBitz (run by my friend Robert Ballard) has offered various interesting items over the years (including some great “GP” Tshirts that I regularly wear); now Robert is trying a line of magnetic badges – or fridge magnets, as I think of them!
It’s taken a while for him to get the quality where he wants it, but I received this over the weekend, and I particularly like the “50th” one 🙂

(previous badges)

Hosed!

Posted on by Ian C.

More like de-hosed actually …
For a while now, the passenger side washer jet on GBMINI#6 has not been working. I assumed it was due to the cold weather – although the car has heated washer jets, I figured maybe one heater was broken, and hoped to find time to visit MINI of Peabody one day (it’s been ages!)

Well yesterday was up to 40, and today we got to 50; but still the washer jet wasn’t working, so I decided to see if there were any kinked hoses.
When I opened the hood, I noticed a puddle of greenish fluid collected around the passenger side suspension strut! Looks like washer fluid, I thought – and proceeded to unscrew/unclip the sound deadening sheet from the underside of the hood. And there, I found a loose hose from the washer jet:

Once found, it was easy to re-attach, and hey presto I have two washer jets again! This must be the first ever MINI repair that I’ve done for myself 😉