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Yes for insurance purposes you must be a member of the bmw club, then the event fee. I’ll see you there

I think you could go either way the sun roof breaks up the roof so you would not be left with a blank white canvas. You may want to do something with the boot as it does create a pretty large blank surface, you could do just boot and bonnet stripes. I also like the look of an asymmetrical graphic on the boot coming from one side to the middle, it avoid the tramp stamp feel or a center graphic, in my opinion. I always appreciate when someone has graphic that are unique. I am sure you would all love to hear you thoughts and thing you are thinking of incorporating. If you are thinking of printed graphics, especially because you husband can install, reach out to local sign shops you can get a better price on just the print job then the car wrapping places. If you are looking for just cut stripes/graphics there are a few folks we can point you to with larger format cutters.

Today was a few interior projects, first was tucking all the wires for the Midland radio. Not a lot of work just planning the best routing behind panels I could easily remove and remembering where the hidden screws and clips are. Many of the panels overlap so you may have to remove 4 to remove the one you want. no boot full of wires anymore. Second project was the door cards and dash accents. The door cards were the piano black, and I had dash accents that I had wrapped with the street map of London (one of may first vinyl projects) and I was ready to change it up. here was the before: I found a set of the faux carbon fiber dash insert and door cards on one of my junkyard scavanger hunts. I figure they are worth a try with the carbon fiber accents already on the car. I can pretty much pull an interior blind folded at this point or parked in front of a cabin in the woods with some help from @SneakyBaron (everyone should really go to the dragon at least once). Well after 30 minutes this is the result. I am pretty happy with it.

Most people do not regret moving from stock as long as they don’t by Amazon specially and understand the expectation of a performance suspension (I.e normal driving will be a much stiffer ride). as for Gen3 specifically you are kind of a the front of the curve for modification. I know @twakefield have done some sespension mods to his Gen3 hopefully he can weigh in. I recently to Koni yellows and I am very happy, but I was looking for a performance strut with adjustable dampening while not interested in ride height adjustment. I already had the OEM up graded JCW suspension so I retained the stiffer OEM springs. I additional changed to fixed -1.5 camber top plates in the front. @MELO-R56 has used raceland or bc and is currently on Running KW I believe hopefully he can weigh in on the pro and cons of those OEM JCW upgrade are bilstein b12 on the gen2 I believe, I ran those for serval year and really enjoyed those. KW is the band used by the JCW racing team, in The TCA series. The big thing with there product is know what you are going to use often folks buy the KW3 with all the bells and whistles when they could have saved a lot of money with the 1 or 2 variant. lastly have you upgraded the rear sway bar yet? Likely your biggest suspension performance complaint at the moment is understeer (“tight for those using NASCAR terms). This is best addressed with a larger rear sway bar. Quality one are around $500 and will have a big change on handling. most people say this is the biggest change behind maybe quality non-run flats. all just my opinion, hope this helps

absolutely. I will get you an answer tomorrow.

Its been a bit, I will reach out from the club to clarify. It has been a while (pre-covid) that we last clarified.

good point David, they are very helpful to give you situational awareness during the drive. Do not feel like you need to run out and buy one though, we always have extras you can borrow on your first few runs while you are figuring out that this is an awesome time. Also with a radio you will get to hear the calm direction calls from @Brandy_Brown

I am signed up for the school, I am all about taking advantage of an opportunity for seat time and the learning from other with a wealth of experience. Hope to see some of my fellow MINIacs in class.

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I was giving it a pass because the wheel is still on, so it would only be a broken nose and a new pair of pants.

This is the perfect time to get a room if you are thinking about it, before the pandemic created a break in the event it was a multi-year wait to get a room/cabin. This happen because people with a room have two weeks after the event ends to reserve their room for the next year, then what left goes to the wait list. So in the normal cycle only a small room if any come available.

Someone already has the Persuader (big hammer) at the ready. Now that's someone the has dealt with "bolt on" accessories before. Looks good, I have heard the deflectors make a big difference

Very easy just rsvp for the event, meet up at the start point. We will give a drivers meeting that covers the run rules. really all you need to do is follow the MINI ahead and enjoy the drive. please let me know if we can answer any specific concerns we can answer.

What Ali said. Thank you Ali. Do mention you are with DCMM when you call.

You guys will be having a way bigger and better party. Congrats!!!