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Keep water from your speakers

Just over a week ago my driver’s side HK door woofer started making a grumbling noise, and the next day it would cut in and out completely. Last Saturday I pulled things apart to find the problem, and found this:

Water had come in through the window seal (which is confirmed by my service tech as [...]

New Site Hosting

My hosting has been moved over to Site5.com. I’ve been reluctant to move from my previous host, whom I’ve been with for over five years; I was mostly happy with them, except they never upgraded their hosting plans to be more competitive. I’m moving from 50meg space/2.5gig bandwidth to 3gig/50gig for almost the same [...]

A run to the Chasm at 20,000

On Saturday, I joined a bunch of the Rhode Island MINI owners on a run to the Purgatory Chasm. I’ve missed a number of MINI events this summer due to scheduling conflicts so I was looking forward to this somewhat smaller MINI run. Sometimes the smaller ones are better; you get to meet everyone [...]

Modding your Mods

This weekend I ripped apart the dash yet again and added another of Ian Cull’s excellent circuits. It allows me to toggle the traction control from my steering wheel.
There are times when your traction control kicks in when you are pulling into traffic and need to get moving but it robs engine power for [...]