Many of the staff at MINI of Peabody, as well as helping run the event on Sunday, took photos – and they have now been put up on the dealership website. A couple examples here – GBMINI getting his first poker card (from MoP Service Manager Garys son Josh), and MoP General Sales Manager Paul checking GBMINIs winning poker hand:
Visit the MINI Peabody Spring Rally gallery for lots more pictures.
Chris (SalemMINIdriver) contacted me today about the PW MCS which caught fire and was flat-bedded to MINI of Peabody this weekend – in fact we were still at the dealership after the Spring Rally when the car arrived!
With Chris’ permission, and to help him with any possible warranty disputes, I visited his car and took some pictures … From the outside, there was obviously a fire under the air vent below the windshield on the passenger side, this is the area where the ABS/DSC control module lives, and from under the hood it’s clear that just a small part of that module was the source of the heat:
Slightly worrying is that this happened to his MINI while it was parked – someone saw the smoke and alerted Chris, and he was able to minimize the damage by disconnecting the battery, and by the use of a luckily nearby fire extinguisher!
Perhaps slightly more worrying is that a very similar event happened just over a year ago, to Donna/Mike.
Certainly two of these failures out of all the MINIs sold is not an alarm – hopefully we’ll never hear of another one …
You can read about the original fire here on NAM; you can read about the new fire here on NAM and here on MINI2.
Something I forgot to mention yesterday in the Spring Rally / Poker Run write-up … in addition to providing excellent fun & food for us, MINI of Peabody also raised $600 for the Jimmy Fund by collecting a minimum $20 donation and giving a Motoring Hearts grille badge as a thank you …
We also raised $600 for the Massachusetts Make-A-Wish foundation by selling more $25 MINIsOnTop raffle tickets, with help from Mary of Make-A-Wish; the MINI of Peabody donated JCW upgrade is most popular, having sold almost half the available tickets already – but the Herb Chambers MINI of Boston donated two year MINI Cooper lease is of more interest to people that don’t yet own a MINI …
