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SOLD! Thanks @Edge!!

PM coming shortly. EDIT: No it won't - mailbox is full. I deleted everything I have, it still says I'm full. Bah.

Is the marketplace now - or has it always been - only read-only except for paying members? Since we've sold our MINIs, I let the membership lapse. However, We've got a MINI Fini spare tire attachment we're trying to sell. Thanks!

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I'll PM you a variation on that route.

Could've swore I saw Cricket on Sycolin Road yesterday, heading toward Leesburg. Today, I (sadly) saw a 2nd Gen JCW Black/red, plate "MNI NJA", or rather the aftermath. Caught fire, completely destroyed

We have a room booked at the Best Western in St Ignace. Lave view. Not the cheapest hotel there, but decent. Giving up the room in case there's interest. PM me if interested.

Wrong thread.

Correction: Odds n Ends and DCC are co-located. Odds n Ends still exists as a company

To be fair, not even my shop knew there would be no painting until the part arrived. My guess is, they didn't know, either. Hopefully you found a solution that works for you. Good luck! Peace, Jim

First of all, D&V is probably one of THE best body shops in the area, hands-down. Nobody will tell you they're cheap, because they're not. I have friends with high-end cars, not to mention well-trusted detailers, that only deal with D&V. That speaks volumes to me. If they want too much, in your opinion, go elsewhere. They're not the only game in town. Caliber Collision in Purcellville did mine, for less than my insurance deductible would have been. Take a photo of the specific piece that is broken and post it here. If it's the black shiny plastic bumper cover that your license plate bracket mounts to, then that is a $55 part. BUT the front fascia most likely needs to come off to replace it. And in my case, the lower grill surround was also cracked but you couldn't tell until parts started coming off. Removing and re-installing all of those parts takes time, and time is money. So expect to be out a couple of hundred bucks in labor OR buy the part and install yourself. I'm sure there are folks around here willing to help out. Sorry to hear about your damage but complaining about prices of ONE PLACE isn't productive. If you don't like the prices or their suggestions, move on. Plenty of places in the DC area to deal with. -Jim

Are you talking about the glossy black bumper cover? It's a $55 part and comes as you see it, no painting required. If a body shop replaces it, you're looking at a ~$200 bill (due to the labor). Ask me how I know -Jim

EDIT: Sold!

2015, 18 months old and will turn over 46K miles in the next day or 2.

All I've done lately is put more and more miles on mine. Oh, and stretched its legs at VIR

Plan on $100-$300 per night and you'll be fine. Best Western comes in on the higher side of that range.

I wasn't that far behind, HOWEVER I was ushered to the front row of the 2nd batch. So it took a long, long, long time to depart. I typically don't run with groups, especially groups that like to cut in on my sleep time

Rough agenda is: Friday - check in, get swag, etc. Saturday AM - drive to the marshaling / staging point. You could be sitting at the staging point for several hours. I think for us, once they started departing, we departed 60-90 minutes later. Saturday afternoon - arrive at St Ignace event location. Stay an hour or 2. Sunday - go home. We took 2 days to drive up, and 2 to drive home. We used Toledo and Cleveland as our halfway points. Some folks will tough it out and drive the entire 11 or so hours to Mack City / St Ignace. I'm ok with spending the extra time and money to do a more leisurely trip -Jim

We stayed in St Ignace, and will do so again in 2017. If they do 2017 like 2015, the morning will start on the Mack City side of the bridge, and go to St Ignace. So if you stay at St Ignace, you'll have at least 3 trips across the bridge, at $4 each. If you stay in Mack City, you'll have only 2 trips across. Also, there are more places to eat - and pretty sure more hotels - on the Mack City side.

He was all booked when I spoke to him 2 weeks ago. You might try closer to fall and see if he has any openings.

http://www.minitakesthestates.com/rally.htm Under each City, you'll find a 'Download Daily Route Sheet' link.

Not saying it's recommended, but I'm not sure I agree with the "none are safe" statement. Some car washes know enough to turn off the brush that goes over the top for ragtops, for example. We've run Bender through an automatic car wash w/out problems at least once that I'm aware of. We got the slightest bit of water coming it, but I could probably replicate it by putting a high pressure stream close to any car window.

Lots of schools of thought. We've done the host hotels before. We've also stayed at hotels closer to the rise-n-shine location. There are typically very little, if any, happenings at the host hotel. You're getting (arguably) a better rate than you would if you booked on your own. But that's not always the case. A lot of the host hotels are booked - at least, the group rate block of rooms are sold out. You can always call the hotel, if it happens to be one you want to stay at. Some cities like St Ignace don't have a lot of hotels to begin with. Mackinack City is on the south side of the bridge, and might have rooms available. We've looked for rooms near the morning events, if the events for that city were announced when we booked our hotels. For the others, I took a WAG based on what I knew about the area, where the nearest 'track' was, etc. Park City, UT still doesn't have an evening event, at the time of this post. And the morning event is on the opposite side of Salt Lake City from Park City. So, we might end up changing our reservation for that city. Or not. Too soon to tell

Are you talking about the headliner? There's an upholstery cleaner by Adams that you spray on, lightly agitate with your fingers, and blot off. That might work. Usually all I do is lightly vacuum the headliner (for pet hair). I've not had to do any cleaning beyond that.

My wife's R57 has survived 5 winters w/ no issues. I just knock the snow off of the roof every time it snows.