My MINI and its mods so far....

[Jolly]

Made a post a while ago with some pics of my car, but I've done quite abit more since.

Bit of info...

2006 ONE D (with a good spec inculding 17" Polished R99 wheels, sports seats, Harmon/Kardon sound system, pepper pack, tints, alarm and zip roof decal

I've added the following to it since I bought her in December 06.

Full aero kit (front and rear bumpers, front grille and side skirts)
Aero spoiler
Custom PowerFlow back box with 3" slash cut tip
Spotlamps
Cooper 'S' chrome fuel cap
Body colour mirror caps
Replacement headlamp (dipped and main beam), sidelight and idicator bulbs
Clear side repeater lenses
Alta 4" aerial
All four wheels replaced under warranty by BMW due to signs of corosion.

Here are a few pictures of it, as it looks now (some before the alloy's replacement, which were only sorted last week.

On a recent run out with about 25 other MINI's... (horrible yellow sidelights now replaced!)





Just some taken in the Lakes...







Future plans include

Lowering springs to drop it by 20 - 30mm
Halo style headlamps(look OEM but have a halo ring BMW style)
Possibly two more spots upfront, but undeiced yet.

So, what do you guys think? Any commments or suggestions are welcome.

Regards,

James.

[RobCrezz]

Looks nice, but why did you get the diesel one?

[restoman]

That's not a Mini, it's a BMW............................

[AndyBe]

restoman said:

That's not a Mini, it's a BMW............................

It's not as good looking as a BMW.

[r5gttgaz]

AndyBe said:

restoman said:

That's not a Mini, it's a BMW............................

It's not as good looking as a BMW.

But a lot better looking than the original sh!t box one.

[flattotheboards]

it looks good, yuo wouldnt know from looking at it that its a one D.

[Jolly]

restoman said:

That's not a Mini, it's a BMW............................

AndyBe said:

It's not as good looking as a BMW.

Thanks for your comments, but I have to say the whole its not a MINI, its a BMW thing does get rather boring. If I wanted a Mini (note not MINI) then I would have bought one of those instead.

[Jolly]

RobCrezz said:

Looks nice, but why did you get the diesel one?

I got a diesel because I wanted one, the ONE petrol is gutless in comparison and I was 19 when I bought it. So insurance was quite pricy to make the step up to a Cooper and obviously a Cooper S was out of the question

I do prefer petrols though, and I've had a few Coopers for courtesy cars to wet my appetite. Next car will definatley be a R53 Cooper S (the one with the supercharger) but thats a few years off yet!

flattotheboards said:

it looks good, yuo wouldnt know from looking at it that its a one D.

Thanks mate, people have sugested de-badging but I suppose you would still hear the tractor sound when its idling anyway. It sounds quite good when you boot it now though, thanks to the Zorst.

James.

[RobCrezz]

Have you had it chipped?

I thought the little diesel was the slowest of the lot.

[900T-R]

Jolly said:

I got a diesel because I wanted one, the ONE petrol is gutless in comparison

Um? 10.8 0-60 plays 13.4... The One is devoid of any kind of real straight line urge from 70 mph upwards, granted... but the R50 One D is so bad BMW The Netherlands didn't even bother to bring it here...

I've driven the new Cooper D and I must say it's a lot better...

[Jolly]

RobCrezz said:

Have you had it chipped?

I thought the little diesel was the slowest of the lot.

Not had it chipped yet but If I did I could probably see about 105bhp on the cards. I'm worried about stupid amounts of black smoke though. If I can find a decent option then I would defiantley consider it.

900T-R said:

Jolly said:

I got a diesel because I wanted one, the ONE petrol is gutless in comparison

Um? 10.8 0-60 plays 13.4... The One is devoid of any kind of real straight line urge from 70 mph upwards, granted... but the R50 One D is so bad BMW The Netherlands didn't even bother to bring it here...

I've driven the new Cooper D and I must say it's a lot better...

Thanks for the remarks and quoting the 75bhp models 0-60 time

Mine is the later 88bhp model which has a 0-62 time of 11.9. So 1 second slower to 60 than the petrol ONE (actual 0-62 time is 10.9). Hardly noticable. Plus the diesel produces 190 Nm at 1800-3000 rpm compared to the ONE petrols 140nm at 3000rpm.

A few more stats for you... which actually represent real world driving i.e NOT 0-60.

ONE Petrol Acceleration 80-120 km/h (4th / 5th gear): 11.9 s / 14.9 s
ONE Diesel Acceleration 80-120 km/h (4th / 5th gear): 10.1 s / 11.7 s
Cooper Petrol (115bhp) Acceleration 80-120 km/h (4th / 5th gear): 10.5 s / 13.5 s

So the diesel has both of them coverd between 50 - 75.

Believe me I have driven the ONE petrol and it is sluggish compared to my car. The Cooper didnt make mine feel dog slow either.

Agreed on the Cooper D though, great car. Shame the PSA diesel unit sounds even more like a tractor than mine.

James.

[900T-R]

Jolly said:

ONE Petrol Acceleration 80-120 km/h (4th / 5th gear): 11.9 s / 14.9 s
ONE Diesel Acceleration 80-120 km/h (4th / 5th gear): 10.1 s / 11.7 s
Cooper Petrol (115bhp) Acceleration 80-120 km/h (4th / 5th gear): 10.5 s / 13.5 s

So the diesel has both of them coverd between 50 - 75.

No, you just have to drop a cog lower in the petrol (which has l o o o o n g gearing); an option that you don't really have in the derv version there's no useful torque that high in the rev range.

And the fact that you're rolling on those humungous 17" while I'm on the 175/65/15 stockers and the repercusions on rotating inertia gives me a useful edge from a standstill

[Jolly]

Ok then. Well personally I'm pretty sure if both drivers kept their cars in the best power / torque bands then the ONE D would be a quicker car in the real world.

We'll agree to disagree though.

[WildCards]

Chaps, your still talking over 10 seconds, so neither are really going to pull the skin off a rice pudding are they? Put your nobs away and get some more pictures up.

[Jolly]

Agreed mate. I just set out to show some pics of my car off. Im under no illusion with regards to my cars power and speed, having only just turned 20 I cant really get into the drivers seat of decent hot hatches yet. But as allways people love to give diesels grief.

Edited by Jolly on Friday 5th October 03:52

[Silent1]

FFS my Cooper S will win

When i fit the Alta V2 17% and the milltek + GTT manifold and all the other bits sat in it's boot

But really, that's a brilliant car jolly, am i right in thinking it was your first car?

Edited by Silent1 on Friday 5th October 04:35

[Stu R]

Car looks great mate, ignore the willy waving

[Silent1]

I never get the point in here, if you think your car is better than theirs, why don't you post your own thread. You see it time and time again some tit coming in and going woopty do or some variation of

[900T-R]

Silent1 said:

I never get the point in here, if you think your car is better than theirs, why don't you post your own thread. You see it time and time again some tit coming in and going woopty do or some variation of

Oh come on boys, just a bit of fun... if you're going to come here with the slowest version of a car which is then made to look like a Cooper S Works with all kinds of bolt-on stuff that's only going to make it slower, and state you bought it because the next slowest version is 'gutless' I'd say your fair game for a bit of gentle ribbing. I am under no illusion about the straight line prowess of a bum basic MINI One - it's my company hack on steelies FFS - but then it doesn't have any pretensions of being anything but the most bum basic MINI...

And yes, I am a little bemused of derv drivers citing 'real world performance' and some more or les ignoring peak torque performance ignoring that they're pulling 50% longer gearing to get at similar speed... If you gotta have a single indicator for overall performance, it'll be bhp and if you've got less than 90 to pull over a tonne of weight, you've got little to brag about either way.

Edited by 900T-R on Friday 5th October 06:41

[BoRED S2upid]

Looks good but for all that money you could have bought a Cooper?.

Ive just fitted 4 sport to the front of mine and the BMW garage who fitted them checked with BMW if it was ok to fit 4 on a Cooper, they said yes for a Cooper but definately not for a Diesel due to cooling problems.