UPDATE - I have now been bothered to take my door card off and adjust my window. It is now as it should be! Only cut myself once! 😂

It's like you have read my mind , word for word.

mate that was a pure class. One day, i'll tell you about when i was student and put a garden fork through a computer because it had crashed once too often, days before handing a huge music project...as the parents of my then brand new housemate looked on in an astonished mix of horrified disbelief and stone cold, dry mouthed fear for their son's life.

All made mistakes lol, when removing the belt on my jcw to service the charger I put the tensioner pin in on the piss which caused the metal strip inside the spring to shear. Took it off the car and decided to ‘attempt’ a repair on the tensioner. Pulled the tensioner open and the spring launched up and nutted me on the forehead. £120 for a new tensioner and a headache later all sorted. Only redeeming factor the strut on the tensioner was shagged in the first place so did need to be replaced

We’ve all been there. Stripped threads on the cylinder head, snapped pinch bolts changing the shocks to coil overs, snapped trim clips, drilling out corroded ABS sensors, angle grinding the hand brake cables out of the rear callipers... the list goes on. But it’s worth it when you’ve learned something new and fixed something yourself.

Biggest mistake I made was damaging the treads on a drive shaft , luckily the replacement was very cheap

Here's a project for you - take the front Supercharger fill plug (behind the SC pulley)and see if there is any fluid in it. (have to remove water pump to get to the other plug) At 135k miles, I found that mine was empty. Big improvement with some fluid in there.(4oz) Also, don't overtighten your coolant bleed valve cause it cracks easily too. I cracked mine the other day, but just a little bit, so I put a hose clamp around it till I get a new one.

Par for the course man. That’s how we learn and eventually become pros with the experience.

Love this hahaha top man for owning it. This is so many people.

Well done for admitting your mistakes. We all do it. That wind noise impression was absolute gold 😂. You on commission yet from Paddock? 😉

I've caused plenty of issues.... I had to replace both rear trailing arms because of snapped bolts when putting in my coilovers aaaaand the coilovers themselves were a huge mistake!

I've taken my 05 mini s through the carwash and never even considered the spoiler. I'll wash her myself in the future lol.

Another excellent video 👍 I’ve been debating on going through a car wash but i think I’ll pass now 😂

Do you have a video showing how you installed the additional engine support brackets you have in red ?

This is how i feel when i try to fix computers. Im okay at it now, but ive fucked up a lot.

All part of the fun isn't it lol. I haven't had too much oopsies, the only time i've really lost my temper is when i was painting my door cards, spent ages masking off bits that i was going to do a bit of a pattern on, sprayed it, then accidentally knocked it off my bench on the very much unswept floor. Long story short had to find a bloke breaking a Mini locally and get a new set of door cards. So now technically my car has prefacelift door cards without the puddle light, but with the facelift inner handle with the bigger pad/arm rest thing lol

How did a carwash remove a spoiler?? I had to use a hot air gun, 2 people and a lot of fishing line to cut away the spoiler.

i call it a valve cover