juz liek the title says i need spare parts and are repairer besides padstow that a mini specialists is there anyone else?

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower

spare you can try suzi sports out seven hills way.. repairer well I recommend mini classic but thats my preference and choice.

Greig at mini classic at ermington. Whats wrong with mini spares? Tony really knows he stuff.

Doogie

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I won Hay once, here's the pic to prove it..


Hay, it's not about the car, it's not about the venue, it's about the people that come here. Peter Dwyer, Mayor of Hay NSW.

mini spares at padstow? nothing his done work on my mini before he knows it quite well, but i juz wanna compare prices

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower

They all cost money, please excuse me here, but are'nt you a mechanic by trade? Why don't you under take the work yourself?

Doogie

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I won Hay once, here's the pic to prove it..


Hay, it's not about the car, it's not about the venue, it's about the people that come here. Peter Dwyer, Mayor of Hay NSW.

ive never experienced minis before and i cant afford to stuff up anything atm cause the car is my everyday driver till i get another car so i rather pay an expert and have the car running 100% then me doing it and stuffing something up

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower

Well mechanics wages must have shot up since i did my apprentiship, i know i could'nt afford to have people work on my cars, i did it myself & learn't from my mistakes.

Doogie

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I won Hay once, here's the pic to prove it..


Hay, it's not about the car, it's not about the venue, it's about the people that come here. Peter Dwyer, Mayor of Hay NSW.

Here's a list for you

http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10543

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One should never skimp on the zip ties.

so if somone elses car rolled into your workshop, that u had never worked on, you would curl up into ur shell and send them to a place that knows their car, drive the business away

so u cant afford to fix the mini urself, but u can afford to pay someone to fix it

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-jamie-
1963morris 850
1965 solid side van
1994 rover racecar

mini's really are quite simple to work on they are simple carbied all mechanically driven cars. If you aren't prepared to pay good money to a fellow mechanic, do the work yourself, grab a hayes workshop manual their awesome. And if you know enough to be a mechanic then you can find yourself round a mini. Advantage is you know the works done right at the end of the day, and youv'e lernt something about the best car ever made (not that I am biased or anything)

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-doing a Degree in Mechanical Engineering,
and a few conversions:
13B Extend in a 1600
4EFTE in a mini ute (all slowly)

... at works a different story man, theres a place to leave the car if it needs to stay over nite and parts come around alot easyer, at home i have no where to put the car and i havent got any other car to drive if it goes off the road for awhile and i rely on my mini to be running everyday and plus i never have the time to do that sorta thing, i work 6 days a week and sundays packed with stuff i need to do on the saturdays, at them moment since i only juz bought the car i dont mind sending it to an expert to get checked over and fixed and tuned.

i dont own my own workshop, i work for a company and they dont allow workers to work on there own cars at all during work hours in the workshop, minor stuff like wiring and servicing and changing things here and there i will do time to time but atm it needs some big work done and im better off sending it to someone to do it for me then me do it (as they say mechanics cars are never fixed)

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower

But if the car is at another mechanic being fixed, you still have no car, as far as i can see your still in the same boat as fixing it yourself!

Doogie

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I won Hay once, here's the pic to prove it..


Hay, it's not about the car, it's not about the venue, it's about the people that come here. Peter Dwyer, Mayor of Hay NSW.

.... yeah but if i send it to an expert they might have the car finished in one day where it might take me 3 days plus they can do it while im at work where i need to find time to do it

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower

I see that John Smidt is back in business and trading as Mini King Australia (sheesh, is it really 40 years since I first poked my nose in his shop as a pimply faced apprentice )

Mini King Australia
22 Graham Hill Road
NARELLAN NSW 2567
Tel (02) 4648 1233
Fax (02) 4647 7748
email: [email protected]
New and old stock parts and service for all model Minis

[mods: maybe update the list of Mini businesses to includ Mini King??? plse??]

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"Show me the Mini!"

MOD EDIT - RULE #1

Man, if you struggle to get work done on a Mini... That was designed in 1959... Then how the hell do you work on modern vehicles?

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