{"id":145,"date":"2009-08-29T19:03:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T23:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-08-29T19:03:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T23:03:31","slug":"greasy-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2009\/08\/29\/greasy-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Greasy Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.joshwardell.com\/pics\/2009\/MINI\/misc\/slides\/20090829-093351.html\" target=\"new\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/media\/09\/greasys.jpg\" BORDER=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI headed over to <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.greasysgarage.com\/\">Greasy&#8217;s Garage<\/a> this morning to finally get a long list of overdue preventative maintenance done on the MINI. Good MINI friends just opened the shop a few months ago out in Worcester and the good company alone is worth the trip, as well as the experience of working on hundreds of minis. Some parts I had sitting around for <i>years<\/i> waiting to be installed, while others I had ordered back in May, but any way you look at it, at over 94,000 miles, my MINI was long overdue for a checkup.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThough Pete was impressed on how good shape my car was in, my suspension bushings were shot (thanks to daily repeated pothole torture of Boston&#8217;s roads), so we put in some nice Powerflex bushings. It&#8217;s kind of like getting glasses&#8230;you suddenly realize how much you&#8217;ve been missing in the steering over the years!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOther items included new accessory belt and tensioner stop; new plugs, wires, and coils; new brake pads, rotors, and steel-braided brake lines that I&#8217;ve had for years and always looked forward to the sharper pedal response. Also replaced my seized power steering fan and PCV valve.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBy chance our friend Gavin was also in for his yearly service work, it was very good to see him.  But it&#8217;s great to know I have a trustworthy mechanic that specializes in MINIs, and I no doubt will be back soon, perhaps just to visit while someone else gets some work done, as the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.massmotoringclub.com\/\">MMC<\/a> folks often do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I headed over to Greasy&#8217;s Garage this morning to finally get a long list of overdue preventative maintenance done on the MINI. Good MINI friends just opened the shop a few months ago out in Worcester and the good company alone is worth the trip, as well as the experience of working on hundreds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}