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Sup. My name is Josh. Currently I drive a 2002 Mini Cooper Non-S Canadian Launch edition for that CDM tyteness. I will give you the current timleine of my car
Here she is being a dirty girl as stock as i got her.
1028131133a by joshg51, on Flickr
What's worse than the front wheel gap is the back :angry:
1028131246a by joshg51, on Flickr
1028131246b by joshg51, on Flickr
Then I bought some wheels. XXR 531 17x8 +25.
1028131307a by joshg51, on Flickr
Then I cleaned her very well because the wheels were going on soon
1028131621 by joshg51, on Flickr
Then my tires came so I mounted them
1029131635b by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131635a by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131633c by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131633d by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131633a by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131747 by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131449 by joshg51, on Flickr
Then I made my car smell like GRAPE SODA, YA MEAN?
So basically ever since i've seen this pic i wanted to try all red taillights for a color flush look. Don't know how else to describe it.
Good thing about the taillights for the early model coopers is that the chrome trim is inside the housing unlike later ones so making them red would be easy, just go over the plastic cover. So I went ahead and ordered some red taillight tint off ebay for 9 dollars for a 1ft x 4ft piece which came in handy. I'm glad i bought a large piece because my first try looked like shit. So then I used my amazing iPhone to google how to properly install it use a rubbing alcohol mixture in a spray bottle and a credit card as a squeegee. Second try came out a lot better and the heat gun is one of my favorite and most useful tools and it helped stretch the tint over the curves and make the edges neat. the placement was a little off so a tiny bit is exposed on the top of the left light but you can't see it unless you look for it. After all the errors from the first two attempts the right lamp came out pretty nice as I finally got the hang of it.
how the rear looked before
how it looked after, orange turn signals still show a bit but only at some angles.
like this one, you dont see unless you think about it
Drove it everywhere like this
Pieced together a stud conversion kit.
Everything went kinda meh. The car had studs and bolts so i wanted to make them all the same with extended studs but most of them were rusted in. A breaker bar and stud removal tool did the trick except for one on the back that needed some heat to break loose. Also tapped all the thread to fix the rusty ones.
All together
Also got some new floor mats to replace the messed up ones it had.
Also got a stubby antenna
Here's a photo of it my friend took from the Berkeley Euro meet. Such sad wheel gap.
And the most recent thing to happen is this and they go on this week
Here she is being a dirty girl as stock as i got her.
1028131133a by joshg51, on Flickr
What's worse than the front wheel gap is the back :angry:
1028131246a by joshg51, on Flickr
1028131246b by joshg51, on Flickr
Then I bought some wheels. XXR 531 17x8 +25.
1028131307a by joshg51, on Flickr
Then I cleaned her very well because the wheels were going on soon
1028131621 by joshg51, on Flickr
Then my tires came so I mounted them
1029131635b by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131635a by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131633c by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131633d by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131633a by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131747 by joshg51, on Flickr
1029131449 by joshg51, on Flickr
Then I made my car smell like GRAPE SODA, YA MEAN?
So basically ever since i've seen this pic i wanted to try all red taillights for a color flush look. Don't know how else to describe it.
Good thing about the taillights for the early model coopers is that the chrome trim is inside the housing unlike later ones so making them red would be easy, just go over the plastic cover. So I went ahead and ordered some red taillight tint off ebay for 9 dollars for a 1ft x 4ft piece which came in handy. I'm glad i bought a large piece because my first try looked like shit. So then I used my amazing iPhone to google how to properly install it use a rubbing alcohol mixture in a spray bottle and a credit card as a squeegee. Second try came out a lot better and the heat gun is one of my favorite and most useful tools and it helped stretch the tint over the curves and make the edges neat. the placement was a little off so a tiny bit is exposed on the top of the left light but you can't see it unless you look for it. After all the errors from the first two attempts the right lamp came out pretty nice as I finally got the hang of it.
how the rear looked before
how it looked after, orange turn signals still show a bit but only at some angles.
like this one, you dont see unless you think about it
Drove it everywhere like this
Pieced together a stud conversion kit.
Everything went kinda meh. The car had studs and bolts so i wanted to make them all the same with extended studs but most of them were rusted in. A breaker bar and stud removal tool did the trick except for one on the back that needed some heat to break loose. Also tapped all the thread to fix the rusty ones.
All together
Also got some new floor mats to replace the messed up ones it had.
Also got a stubby antenna
Here's a photo of it my friend took from the Berkeley Euro meet. Such sad wheel gap.
And the most recent thing to happen is this and they go on this week
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