From: slider@anashram.com

### - give ya a laff about my poor old mini cooper heh, it's old see
(2004) with 103,000 miles on the clock when i got it, but i knows modern engines are good these days for anything up to 200,000 miles & beyond
depending on how it's been looked after...

anyway, it's been running just fine since i gots it, apart from the things
that were wrong when i picked it up (all minor issues) but with its road-worthiness test (MOT) due on oct 2 next, methinks i'd better check it
out to see what, if anything, it needs to pass its test?

now bmw mini offers an extensive free health-check on all their cars once
a year, cool, so why not give it to 'em and see what's going on with it
hah... and fuck me sideways if'n they then don't hand it back with a
error-list as long as your arm lol... and in which they reckon it needs
not only a total of £1,500 worth of parts, but also the labour which then
comes to a grand total of, wait for it heh: £4,500!!! yak! - they come out shaking their heads in dismay & sorrow, their 'advice' being to just scrap
it and buy one of their second-user's for around the same money! damn!
poor old min!

so anyway, realising that it's bm-feckin'-w whereby even a small scratch
to the paintwork requires a full respray hah, i took it to a local guy to check-over just enough to get it through its test kinda thing, and then anything else can be done later bit by bit, whereon i finds out it only actually needed a new handbrake cable and a single rear stop-light bulb
and that was it!? £200 all in, including the test fee itself (£60!)! he checked-over everything else on bmw's long list and laffed, commenting
that 2 spots of rust on the outer edge of the disk brake doesn't mean you
need a set of new disks & pads! took out a wire brush and in 5 seconds
flat removed said rust spots! see? plus ditto (he said) for everything
else! don't even check 'any' of that again until its next mot in 13 months time! nice! :)

still has a bit of an oil leak around the top rocker-cover (leaking cork
gasket takes 20 mins to replace pffft!) and the noisy steering pump will
defo need replacing at some point (common fault with these mini's
apparently) which am gonna do myself before winter sets in...

so all in all the mini's a little champ and is just a bit old is all, but
then so am i goddammit!

turns out to be a good little mini after all... YES i can turn old min
back into a brand new fucking car for 4500 lol, but that's ridiculous!
plus the way i drive is prolly good for another 40 or 50,000 miles no
problemo! - min! :)

next job up: how to change the steering pump heh...

cost: about £100 for the part + maybe some skinned knuckles...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjG28EEwoy4

looks easy enough innit...

i's a-comin' to fix ya's min! :)

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From: allreadydun@gmail.com

use synthetic oil matey.
the fucker will run forever provided
you don't do anything stupid to it.

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From: slider@anashram.com

use synthetic oil matey.
the fucker will run forever provided
you don't do anything stupid to it.

### - you mentioned that before as it goes + good job i checked it out
with bmw-mini before splashing out on some because mini apparently 'only'
ever use such synthetic oils in all their engines from new these days
anyway, so it doesn't need to be changed, it's already got some!

so it's happy days! :)

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From: allreadydun@gmail.com

i just changed my Honda and put some (synthetic)
in. The stuff works soooo damn good.
new little tiny oil filter about half size
of a cupcake. but does such a fine job of
filtering shit out. I wish i could filter
out the shit here in this newsgroup. Where's
my fuckin' filter when i need it? lol!

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From: allreadydun@gmail.com

### - you mentioned that before as it goes + good job i checked it out
with bmw-mini before splashing out on some because mini apparently 'only' ever use such synthetic oils in all their engines from new these days
anyway, so it doesn't need to be changed, it's already got some!

so it's happy days! :)

don't go over 1 years of service with any oil.
I don't care what kind it is, all the stuff
is shot after 1 year in a vehicle. (cardinal rule)

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From: jeremyhdonovan@gmail.com

On Sunday, September 9, 2018 at 12:44:28 PM UTC-7, alreadygone wrote:

i just changed my Honda and put some (synthetic)
in. The stuff works soooo damn good.
new little tiny oil filter about half size
of a cupcake. but does such a fine job of
filtering shit out. I wish i could filter
out the shit here in this newsgroup. Where's
my fuckin' filter when i need it? lol!

Usually under 'Search' or 'Filters'. :)
In Google Groups Search, there are two ways of doing this.

For example, to filter out all of my posts, click the down arrow
in the 'Search for messages' box, then click the down arrow under
'Posted By' and select 'Not Posted By', then put in my e-mail.

Or, to filter out posts containing the word "Trump", use the
Search option: 'Does not have the words': Trump. Combine those two
options to filter out all posts by me containing the word Trump.

Another way is to use the 'Filters' dropdown and set it to
show you only Topics you have either started or replied to.

Most newsreaders have similar options. Wish granted, Yogi. :)

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From: allreadydun@gmail.com

don't be an idiot. as if i would do this.

Usually under 'Search' or 'Filters'. :)
In Google Groups Search, there are two ways of doing this.

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