Mazda Mom's MINI

[MazdaMINI]

Look at the pretty MINI. Some silly Black 07 Mazda 3 sedan decided to get an upclose view of it. Too close for comfort. So now its sits at Rodgers Master's collision. And I am stuck driving a ford focus. makes me sad. Some Mazda Drivers I tell you!!!!

[mndsm]

Thanks Taya!

[dmention7]

Was the picture of you driving taken on a mini cruise? Looks like another mini mirror in the corner.

[MazdaMINI]

Yes it was. We had 10 MINI's in a row. Once we got to where we were going there were 30 MINI's it was very cool!!!

[Jesse MS3GT]

I hate minis. But I also love them.

lol

Theyre sweet little cars

[Big Nate]

I hate minis. But I also love them.

lol

Theyre sweet little cars

I 100% agree with this.

[MazdaMINI]

we all know that Nate claims to hate them but has dreams about driving 70 around corners in my car. We all know Nate you dont need to lie!

[dmention7]

we all know that Nate claims to hate them but has dreams about driving 70 around corners in my car...

while cuddling a ferret! :D

[Nekko Noir]

Bwahaha....this again???

[Nekko Noir]

Taya's car...so purdy...

[mndsm]

we all know that Nate claims to hate them but has dreams about driving 70 around corners in my car. We all know Nate you dont need to lie!


I can verify this, I was in the car when it happened. He was grinning like a 13yr that just found a year supply of Playboy.

[dmention7]

I can verify this, I was in the car when it happened. He was grinning like a 13yr that just found a year supply of Playboy.

Boost will do that to a man. Doesn't matter how it's being made, or what it's being made in.

[mndsm]

You do have a valid point. I drove some sort of random 85 or so Subaru something (I don't remember what the car was, it wasn't a Legacy, and I don't think it was AWD, but it was equivilant to what the Legacy would have been back then) and it had turbo. Mind you this thing ran on maybe 3 cylinders and have about 2.66 million miles on it, but I still loved every minute of it.

[MazdaMINI]

I miss my supercharger soo much! the focus just makes funny noises when i push the gas pedal down quickly. The MINI would just make that pretty supercharger whine!! I love that!!!

[Nekko Noir]

Well, quit yer bitchin' cuz it's finally Thursday and yer gonna git it back!! Hooray~ :D

[mndsm]

We don't get it back til Friday.

[dmention7]

Well, quit yer bitchin' cuz it's finally Thursday and yer gonna git it back!! Hooray~ :D

Yeah Taya, you're not going to get much sympathy from someone who's driven a Focus for the last 6 years.... :p

[mndsm]

Jay, you could change that.... trade the Focus, get Nanami a Mini, or trade it for a speed3 and then trade her the protege for it.....

[dmention7]

New car time is approaching, but it's not quite here yet.

[mndsm]

New car time happened 6 years ago when she got the damn thing!

[Nekko Noir]

Aye aye, I hear ya. Not like Jay hasn't given me enough crap about that car, not to mention the fact that I've shed many a-tear over the crappy thing, I don't need to be reminded by yet another person. :p

The BIG positive (no car payments) far outweigh any negatives at this point, so I'm not really in any big hurry to get rid of it. If it runs fine through college, that's all I ask from it. Maybe I'll get myself a new car as a college graduation present.

[mndsm]

That's a good plan. The one thing about focuses... as much as they suck, they're sorta reliable. No sense in assuming a car payment.

[dmention7]

Yeah, once we got past the intial flurry of things breaking, it's been pretty solid so far.

I need to figure out what's causing the CEL though....

[mazdamn02]

you can borrow my nifty scan gauge to figure it out!

no car payment FTMFW! car payment is teh suxor.

[dmention7]

i can has scangauge???

[mndsm]

CEL= it's a Ford.

[MazdaMINI]

it does make noises but i hear similar not quite as loud noises in this focus Nanami. I should be getting a call this afternoon hopefully telling me the MINI will be ready to be picked up tomorrow. I am hoping and praying!

[Nekko Noir]

Yeah, once we got past the initial flurry of things breaking, it's been pretty solid so far.

I pretty much have new everything...and everything happened while I was still covered under warranty, so I made good use of it. Serves them right for giving me a crappy car!


I need to figure out what's causing the CEL though....

That CEL's been on forever and aside from the weird noise it makes when I brake, everything runs fine. The first time I got it checked they told me that there wasn't really anything wrong with it...three days later it came on again and I haven't done anything about it since.

[dmention7]

I know, but I'd still like to know so that I can figure it out. Even if the car runs fine it might be sucking down more gas than it has to be, for example

[Nekko Noir]

While you're at it, how about finally helping me with that weird braking noise?? It drives me crazy.

[dmention7]

I don't know brakes so well, unfortunately.

[mndsm]

I'm good at brakes. Maybe if you and Nanami feel like bringing both cars, I can take a gander and see what I see.

[dmention7]

That's doable. That way she doesn't have to backtrack from work back to our place before she heads down to IGH.

[mndsm]

That is the plan then.

[MazdaMINI]

YAY the MINI is coming home tomorrow!!!!!!!!!