Irish Mini Owners Club

It's completely down to what and how much you're welding. Cars in general are light duty for big welders so if it's on a hobby basis I doubt you'd notice a massive increase in the bill from the welder.

In a garage compressors are worse than welders since they are used a lot more.

Mig is the easiest to master and probably the beat for cars. You want a 150-180 amp one with gas. Gasless is IMO absolutely terrible in comparison. Clarke have a good name in the hobby world but if you can get a good second hand Miller you're set. A 10-15 year old Miller will outlive any of the hobb...

Just that it's galvanized and looking at the benders in the background of the pics. You wouldn't bend anything strong enough to use as a subframe without a hydraulic setup or heat.

Is that electrical conduit you're using for the front subframe?

If it was converted in England it's legit, if done here it's not. A late 90s car could never end up with an old Irish plate regardless of where it come from and to get an age related plate in the UK it would need to be a brand new unused shell with pretty much every part of the original car bolted ...

spud1979 wrote:Here's one within your budget

http://cars.donedeal.ie/view/7474371
Mini Cooper

Other than the log book which bit of that is from 1971?

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I have a solid 2000 cooper here that's well within your budget. I have a couple of small jobs to do to it (ball joints and shocks) so was going to put it up for sale in a few weeks

Nice but CRVs do 3600rpm at 70mph on 205/70/15 tyres so god knows how that sits above 50mph on 13s

Worth it for the glass and roof panel (if its good) now

Just make sure you get the right one for your dizzy

Get rid of them then

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-59D-Powe ... 1c15794e94

There is also a britpart kit available for land rovers that fits and does the same thing for less money

This is also covered in the haynes with pics. The sit down and have a good read routine service chapter dude none of it is overly complicated and tbh you're better off doing this sort of stuff yourself.

They changed to 4l years ago and they can keep it. I prefer Millers anyway.

Yep.

Get yourself a haynes manual. It goes through things like this with pics

I dont rate castrol at all, its was always well over priced and then they started the 4l bottle tripe on their normal range.

Thought the hub geometery was wrong no matter what the year so even if they do fit they still aren't right.

First good one in a while!

It used to be €315 not €250.
When emmissions based vrt came in the catagory A (cars) minimum came down to €280. I doubt your mini will fit in the €280 bracket though.

Have a read through this
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vrt/vrt-gu ... #section11

Can we just turn up and pay membership on the day?
I've the form filled out but I'm too busy/lazy to go get a bank draft

Get a tub of wavin lube from any hardware its cheap and water based.

Scumbags!
Hope it turns up or at the very least the insurers play ball on the actual value of stuff

It depends on the policy. I have an axa policy that covers the cars if they have nct or not (stated in writing lol) asked for it so there wouldn't be a problem bringing cars to get tyres or to the test centre etc.