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:congrats: very nice Ali. You proved me right! you've gone a little :stupid: with these little creatures...:dontknow: what we can do with you now!:boxing:

Okay, a moderator needs to put Ali on a emoticon time-out now.... She's out of control. Jim - did Jennifer know you were going to take pictures of her car?

Flowers and eyelashes? Have we become a VW Beetle forum now?

No fried pickles?

:banghead:

I'm trying to remember what this thread was started for but I can't seem to figure it out. There must have been a "Let's use every possible emoticon in the known universe" message somewhere....

And now, I understand why the thread originator can ban the use of emoticons....

It shouldn't be too hard, the equipment is easy to use. Just don't loose track of which tire is which and know how to reset the TPMS or it'll drive you nuts! I rotated mine today while we were installing the lights. Ed is a really nice guy and he's got a mechanic on site if you need more help.

Please note the "tentative" part and if we need to roll out a little later, we can adjust the meet/departure time. Here's a proposed route (sorry the URL is so long): http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=15315+Washington+St,+Haymarket,

Looking for any interested parties that are heading South for the Fall Colors run. The tentative plan is to meet up at the Sheetz in Haymarket at about noon on Friday and head south. Instead of taking 66 to 81, I'd like to take some backroads. Google

Well, there's a "sub group" that just started up - the "K-Town" MINI's and we have a little "gang sign" that we are working on. Don't try to copy it though, that's cause for a beat down.:fight: On a serious note, it's a little disturbing to see another big fight on the metro. There was another one like this about a month ago and there have been other smaller "incidents". What the heck is going on?

Dang, we aren't Jewish, we aren't Married and I do most of the cooking. Guess nobodies interested in us....

I've got a cordless dremel tool with thin metal cutting blades. If you can get to the rusted nut on the light, you can cut it off and replace them with new hardware.

Hurray! M&G next weekend, not this weekend! We cancelled our trip to Key West so we can make it for this one! Autocross at the mall, autocross in the parking garage! Quick, order the cones! :motor:

Yep, it's what Brian said. The temps today were about the lowest we've had since the spring. About 2 weeks ago, we had a similar spell and I got a TPMS light as well. I reset it and all has been fine. I do expect to have another light in the morning as the temps are supposed to drop into the 50's tonight.

I just realized I'm not going to make it for the M&G! I signed up for autocross down in Waldorf this Saturday. Okay, I'm a dork! Laura, you know you shouldn't encourage Jim and Ali like that! They are trouble looking for a place to explode!

There ya go, encouraging 'em again. I'm telling ya Greg, ya gotta watch some of these people, they just need a little encouragement and get all kinds of crazy on ya! Once you meet us at the "Modder's Anonymous" meeting (otherwise known as the meet & g

No way man, the "rent-a-cops" at the mall are TOUGH!

Ali, Don't we have to take Skyline Drive to get to PMoA from here???? @Jim - Considering where you work, I figured you would have a better reply. @gtrnka - don't encourage Jim, it only makes him worse...

Welcome DaFlake! Look forward to meeting up with you!

What scale map though?

Yeah, the Silverstone bulbs work great with the white/clear lenses.

And there's even less room on the Cabrio. Sorry Ali but that's one job that you won't get me to volunteer for! The lights on LUXOR do look very nice. Haemish, while I totally respect your thoughts on amber turn signals, I do like the fact that mine don't appear to be amber until I hit the turn signal. To each his/her own and we'll all do the "youification" thing!

Seafoam is the trade name for a solvent used to clean the fuel path on cars. Please forgive me if I cover something you know here. Most cars have a fuel path from the delivery system (injected or carb), through the intake manifold, past the intake valve and into the cylinder (combustion chamber) and then out. MINI's are direct injection systems which means the fuel is injected directly into the cylinder. The PCV (positive crankcase ventilation) system on the MINI dumps oil vapor into the intake tract and it runs along, swirling and flowing until it passes through over the intake valve into the cylinder. We are seeing a problem with this because it causes the oil to build up along the intake tract and especially on the back of the intake valves. This is because there's no gasoline to come along and "wash" the tract or the valves. Those of us who "seafoam" our cars on a periodic basis will access the PCV valve and pour the product into the vacuum line so it flows through the intake tract and literally dissolves the gunk and the carbon build up. Without reading back through this thread - which I've contributed to several times - the "typical" method involves starting the car (gotta have the vacuum going) and pulling the PCV line and slowly pouring 1/2 to 2/3's of a can of seafoam into it. Shut the car down, let it sit for a while (I usually let it sit for 30 minutes or so) so the seafoam can soak in and break up the gunk. After that, start it up and annoy the crap out of your neighbors. Usually the car will produce lots of smoke for several minutes and then small quantities for a few minutes once you take it out and drive it. We are pretty sure that it's an issue in the eyes of MINI as they are now doing carbon cleaning on cars that go in with some issues (rough idle, misfires and the like). I don't know how everyone else feels about this but my routine is to do the seafoam treatment as above and I'll pour the rest of the can into the tank (don't get it on your paint) and then I drive around for a day or so. Then, I have the oil changed. I have not done a seafoam treatment since I installed the oil catch can but it's time for it and I'll report on the amount of smoke - which should be a rough picture of the amount of "crap" that was dissolved and flushed through the combustion chamber. Too much information? Short answer - it's a solvent used to dissolve carbon build up in the intake track of internal combustion engines...