What did you do to your MINI today?

Nice! When did you pay your deposit?

 

Early August

 

I order this today and once come in I show a pictures

 

I finally got my passenger side visor yesterday. Installed it today.

 

Installed my Nokian G4 WR, first time doing the swap myself. Had them mounted a few weeks ago on to 16" Victory Spokes. Only Discount Tire carried them and it took a few days to get in, installed with their TPMS, took maybe 45 minutes of actual work to mount, clone sensors, and bag em.

Did a common trip while the weather is nice. It shows ~1mi/kWh loss compared to the stock 16" Victory Spoke and tires on the same route. So roughly 4.8mi/kWh vs 5.5-6mi/kWh. I assume there is some wear in period, but initial impressions - Noticeably louder. Feels precise. Less grippy on dry road (lose traction when I never did before), but still stop well. TPMS says it's a touch over inflated but I doubt 2psi would change things much. Probably wouldn't run them all year now that I am equipped to swap out at home, but they could work if you don't need every last mile.

Also took the opportunity to throw on OE mud flaps. Those clips suck even with the wheels off! Must be opened like everyone says. Look good though.

 

Post how they doing I put them on Subaru with plans use them on SE .Thanks

 

Some guys remove a badge from SE as electric car but many guys would love to advertise is electric I’m one of this guys and today my SE is officially electric EV with a badge I put on it . Look for a while on internet and this one was a best choice ,good quality and easy to install . Send to me in 7 days from CA.

 

I realize this is heresy, but I'd like to replace the rear SE electric plugin badge with a Subaru badge of ownership. (https://www.badgeofownership.com/UI/dist/) Decades ago I requested from Subaru a badge of ownership for my 1st Subaru. It was a 2004 Forester--the best car I've ever owned. (Until I let a dealership touch it.) I never applied the badges to my Forester, but intent to do so on my SE. How's that for unique?

I've never seen a Subaru badge of ownership on a Subaru.

My badge will have 'animals', 'cycling', and 'gardening'. (I love growing habaneros and ghost peppers.)

 

My first reaction to putting a "My 1st Subaru" logo on a MINI was, "That's heresy!" Then I realized some might think I've committed heresy by removing the fake hood scoop from my MINI Cooper SE.

None of the electric MINI Electric prototypes, concept car, or concept drawings included a hood scoop. However, when MINI revealed the production MINI Cooper SE in 2019, it had a fake hood scoop! I protested by putting this 10-second slide show online. (Now I get spam from web designers saying they could help improve my website, LOL!)

I wrote a letter to MINI's head designer, Oliver Heilmer, asking if MINI would consider an "aero" scoop-delete option. He wrote me a letter back, saying he'd take up my suggestion with marketing. I read between the lines--what I took away from his letter was that marketing, not MINI's design department, stipulated the fake hood scoop on the SE. The S had a fake hood scoop, why not the SE, too?

Here's the sticker I had made to honor Oliver Heilmer's understanding that an electric car doesn't deserve a fake hood scoop. I was lucky we were exchanging letters rather than email because that made it possible for me to purloin his signature. I turned my SE into the MINI Cooper SE Oliver Heilmer edition:

 

How inconsiderate! Canadians have 1st Subarus, too! (Although most Canadians are on their 4th or 5th Subaru.)

 

If they 100 years old bc they last for 20 years as a brand of 80% still on road after 20 years .I hope I keep up with my Subaru after 20 years I will be 88 .

 

I assumed they pass their Subarus down to their children and buy new ones for themselves.