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#1 me madjoe 90

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Posted 26 July 2009 - 01:03 PM

on friday i decides to jack my mini up and give it a small service and have alook under it to cheack for anything needing repairs or replaceing. i found that the drives side c.v boot had split and prity much every mounting point on the car needed new bushes, after finding this i lowerd the car of the axel stands. and got my brother to drive it with me in the car (as im not alowed to drive yet) to mini technique in pilling to purchase a few bits and ask for a bit of advice, the mini was fine driveing there.
i got the parts needed from craig at mini technique who was extreamly help full and had a vary nice mini project he was in the middel of building to get done for imm. my brother turned my mini over as we wer about to leave, it turn over but wasnt starting about 5 seconds later there was smoke coming in through the vents and from under the bonet and front grill.
hastaly i got out and left my brothers to get out of the mini for them selfs very selfish of me :unsure: i was thinking of my mini more which now had flames coming from the grill and was tuning itself over :( . i ran and got craig who had a fire extiguwisher ( cnt spell :-| ) close to hand and some side cuters. acting fast he cut the earth wire and then opend the bonet and put the fire out if it wasnt for him and if it happend any where else my mini would be a pile of ash. :cry:
after that we got the gril off and assed the damage i thught my mini would be dead but craig got strait on it, he cut out the offending section of melted loom and patched it up in no time. it turns out the purson who had the in past had used scruws to long to put a cooper stile grill on and punctured the loom this cause my mini alsorts of electrical problems.
but now its fine and all my electrics work fine and my mini is destinde to live longer thx to craig who is amazing at mini technique. hears a picture after cuting some of the loom out and dosent look to bad and hears a picture of some chunks of loom i kept for memory.........

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all in all it was a fun afternoon out and if we wernt in the mini it would have been boring and my mini is alot better now than it was befor the fire so its a win win situation just luck we wer out side mini technique when it hapend if not we would have been scruwed literaly because it was cause by a scruw in the loom ahh well


sorry if hard to read and for spelling graammer and punctuation being :xxx: not so good at that stuff

Edited by me madjoe 90, 26 July 2009 - 01:05 PM.


#2 Marky Tizz

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Posted 26 July 2009 - 01:16 PM

sounds like you were lucky. nice one.

#3 me madjoe 90

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Posted 26 July 2009 - 01:33 PM

sounds like you were lucky. nice one.



yep buying a fire extiguisher asap lol im going to be forever paranoiyed of my mini going up in smoke :-

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Posted 26 July 2009 - 01:55 PM

Wow you were lucky. I think im gonna get a fire thingy (I also cant spell it) for mw car. Glad theirs not much damage.

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Posted 26 July 2009 - 02:00 PM

good job you were outside mini tech then lol, craig does have some very nice and some unusual minis in there! I need a fire extinguisher aswel :-




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