{"id":103,"date":"2007-06-12T00:53:21","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T04:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2007\/06\/12\/a-blow-to-the-chin\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T00:53:21","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T04:53:21","slug":"a-blow-to-the-chin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2007\/06\/12\/a-blow-to-the-chin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blow To The Chin"},"content":{"rendered":"

In keeping with my annual bad luck each week of MINIsOnTop<\/a>, I ran over some debris late Sunday night. During a long drive from Philadelphia, on 84 just West of Hartford, I hit what in a flash looked like a black bumper on black pavement in pitch dark. Not seeing it till the last instant, I ran over it at full speed, and it was nearly the width of the car. Of course it sounded terrible and I pulled over to investigate.<\/p>\n

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\nSome scrapes on the bottom of the plate mount show it was initially quite high and therefore took the front lower spoiler with it. The remaining pieces of plastic at the bottom of the bumper were damaged and left hanging. No big deal there–I’ve had the bumper apart before and these plastic pieces are easily and inexpensively replaced.\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe radiator (technically the front one is the air conditioner condenser) was spared a direct hit and I have no leaking fluid (yet) allowing the car to continue driving just fine. However, the impact did split the lower radiator support and bent back the entire condenser, and possibly the radiator behind it. Because this may gradually start to leak, I will be bringing it up to Julian at Sublime Restorations<\/a> for a look over.\n<\/p>\n

\nWith MINIsOnTop starting on Friday, I hope I can simply pick up the plastic parts from MINI of Peabody<\/a> and do the cosmetic repairs myself before the weekend. My fingers are crossed that I can hopefully wait till afterwards for the radiator repairs. It is both good and bad: If it were one inch shorter, I probably would have no radiator damage and a quick and inexpensive repair. But if it were one inch taller, it may have punctured the radiator and left the MINI undrivable. I’ll see what the prognosis is at Sublime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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