Mission accomplished

On my way home from Düsseldorf, I decided to give it a try and take charlie for inspection.

About 50km after I made that decision, the power steering went offline. Wohoo, try pulling off the autobahn and drive the ramp without power assistance. Let me tell you, it’s no fun.

On the way I stopped at a bakery and had even more fun, squeazing into a parking slot. When I restarted charlie, the power steering worked again,

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Posted at 5pm on 07/01/10 | 1 Comment » | Filed Under: MINI stuff, happiness

One step further

Charlie went into OP today and got a new windshield, but as usual it didn’t go smoothly.

I dropped him off before work and got a taxi ride from the work shop to my office in a VW Touran taxi. The ride was an adventure, as the automatic transmission got stuck twice resulting in emergency stops and a power cycle of the whole car. The driver didn’t seem to mind and drove the remaining 3,5km to

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Posted at 6am on 06/30/10 | No Comments » | Filed Under: MINI stuff