- Mini is a British car manufacture
and also means really small.
The original two of Mini was produced in 1959.
Nowadays, BMW owns Mini, but you wouldn't know by looking
at them because the cars are weird as (beep).
A car that looks like it was designed as a toy,
actually has some rally background to it.
That soiled by the hipsters
and edgy moms that drive them today.
The Mini Cooper had everything you didn't want in a car,
offering some weird bug eyed headlights
and then the (beep) skin gigantic tacking conveniently
placed in the center of the dash it look
like a dinner plate.
The 2008 Mini Cooper and original MSRP of around 22 grand,
but don't worry for that 22 grand,
you get an astonishing 180 horsepower and 177 torque.
I'd rather have 11,640 nacho cheese Doritos Locos tacos
from taco ding-dong.
I don't know.
This car can be paired with a six speed manual
or an audit that
not a manual.
This car can be fun, but who cares?
Today we sit down with the owner
and have a good old chat driver to driver.
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Don't forget wheels tires and suspenders fit,
wheels, tire suspicion,
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Today and we are here with Charlie.
How's it going, man?
- Going good.
- You're the that guy that bit that dude's finger in
- Bit it right off.
- I knew it, that was (beep) up.
You aged all up.
- Thank you, thank you I appreciate it.
Let's not beat around the bush.
How much you pay for awesome power's machine?
- $12,500 roughly.
- How many miles are on it?
- 40, 45K roughly.
- I mean, you're not too sure about a lot,
but you feel like you got ripped off.
- It's been a while since I bought it.
I don't really feel like you're ripped off
in most aspects of it, but you never know.
- Maybe a little ripped off.
- Maybe a little.
- When, it's kinda a good deal,
but not that good of a deal.
All right.
- What made you go with a Mini Cooper
and not something like cool,
like why'd you want it to Mini Cooper?
- Some a little bit different than anybody else
was building.
- I know it's different,
but like you could have got something cool
and been different.
- I could have I didn't.
- You just like the Minis?
- Yeah.
- What's the Mini community like, Is it small?
- Mini communities actually pretty big.
- Oh!
- Yeah, it's not Mini.
Its a big Mini community. - Big Mini.
You run into some good people, some bad people
in the middle, but all around the Mini communities,
they're big.
It's a big...
- How do you fit into the mini community?
I wouldn't even say I fit in.
- Oh!
- I'm a little bit different, you know.
- You're the guy, the chocolate factory,
that's where I recognize you from.
- Oh, you got me.
- Who's that chick that's on the side of your car?
- Black rock shooter.
Now, I don't know who it is per se
and I don't really never seen them in a video.
We did do a video with my car
that has black rock shooter in it.
- Black rock shooter sounds like a bad news headline.
- It might be.
- Oh my God, I wouldn't,
I don't know if I'd go around telling people.
- All right, that's enough from me.
Let's hear from our extremely cool
and loyal YouTube community.
Junha Park ask, you own a Mini,
have a black rock shooter wrap in a giant wing,
What kinda reactions do other people
have towards your car?
Are they usually positive and negative?
And specifically which part about your car,
people positive and negative about?
I would say it's more positive than negative.
We do get a lot of negative comments from Mini community
I would say.
it's not very well liked in the community,
but outside of the Mini community does get a lot like
due to how it is being different.
I say most people just hate the wing or hate the wrap.
A lot of people like the wing or dislike the wrap.
It's never, Hey, I like both.
- So a good mix of both.
Yeah, a lot of people I like it
but you get a lot of people I hate it.
- Yeah, exactly.
- What'd you say I.iD t's 50 50.
- I'd say 70 30.
- 70% people like it
- Hate it.
- Oh okay all right.
- 70 and 30% like it.
- All right Dylan asks, is it hard to find parts
for a Mini Cooper, for example, like wheels or widebodies?
- Wheels Obviously Fitment industries they got the wheels
for you.
Widebodies, there's, I wanna say it's easy,
but it's technically not because there's none.
You have Liberty walk,
otherwise you can do like a set of clinch flares
or eBay flares.
Otherwise - like universal.
- Yeah the universal flares yeah,
- Liberty walk is pretty...
- Yeah Liberty walk You're paying for it.
- Yeah that's for sure. - That's very...
- If you're looking for aftermarket wheels tires for special
Let me just get that eyelash out of my eyeball.
Be sure to check out fitmentindustries.com
- Maxie9506 wants to know, does he even like anime?
- I don't watch anime.
I've never watched it, I don't know if I wouldn't per se
like it, I just have never watched it.
You tell me what you want to watch and I'll watch it.
- So you're like, I never watched
I should put that on side my car.
- It wasn't my idea.
- But I'll sure make my whole car anime.
- Whose idea was it?
- This kid from Germany design the wrap,
he design me two wraps.
One of them was green
and one what it was the blue with the blue Rhoda farms.
- And you just (beep)I'm gonna do it?
- Literally that yeah.
- Well I mean like that's weird though.
You don't even like anime It's like if I walked around
like wearing cleats all the time
when I don't play football.
Whoever is wearing cleats all the time.
- You might get judged a little bit.
- I judge your car a little bit.
- I judge you a little bit.
- Touche'.
- All right, Anthony Jones wants to know,
why do you always try to scurry away
from faster cars in traffic?
- It's the Mini thing to do.
- Anyways, Sheek Tres Sesenta is nervous and wants to know,
longterm maintenance, how expensive is it?
- Don't do it.
- Thrasher is asking what is the best generation
of Mini to buy?
As in reliability and modding capability.
- Modding capabilities I'd actually do the R53,
which is like the older chassis and the supercharge ones.
- Okay.
- Or he can go the F56 which is the new models
like the 2014 up.
They're very reliable, they handled great.
Everybody seems to like them
and they don't have as many issues.
- F56 has the only airplane.
- Yeah well.
- You know.
- It's not.
- I feel like only Mini Cooper is kinda like
when you get a happy meal, like it's fine
like it has a toy, but like you kind of just wish
you got big Mac instead.
- But the big Mac doesn't come with a toy.
- We have this better.
- That's fair.
- That makes me full.
So what issues have you had with your Mini-Cooper?
- Question I didn't wanna answer.
I would say all of them.
I've gone through two motors, turbos had oil issues.
I've had timing chain issues, I've cracked two pistons.
I've thrown too much boost at it
and didn't learn from the first two crack pistons.
- How many miles are on this thing now?
- 80,000 roughly.
- 80,000 mile you've been through two motors and turbos.
- Yeah well, I like to party.
- It sounds like you liked the party, but not in a good way.
- Not in a good way.
- Someone needs to teach you a lesson.
- How did the two blocks go?
- The first, the blocks weren't ever bad.
It's mostly just internal parts the first issue was jump
timing and bent the valves.
And then the second time we threw a little bit too much
boost at it and ended up cracking two pistons.
- I appreciate you try and make the car fun,
but it just sounds like it doesn't wanna have fun.
- It doesn't wanna party.
- Did you say something about doors?
- Yeah, we had some issues with the doors
when we went to get it wrapped.
Somewhere some of the wiring got messed up
so I did have to get to new doors as well.
- What was wrong with the doors?
The windows won't go up and the door handles would not open
from the outside.
- So the car itself is even trying to keep you out of it.
I think that's a message.
Like you just need to move on.
The car doesn't want you anymore.
- That's fair.
- What mods all have done now?
- Now, currently it's a fully built motor,
all fours internals. - Wow.
- It's on air.
It's on some new three piece rotor forms.
Its currently getting in the middle of getting Liberty walk,
- Not Liberty running?
- Not Liberty running.
It's gonna run some day.
- So it will scare me a little bit.
Cause all I can think about is,
how much money you spent on this thing?
And how much horsepower is it at?
- I've gotta be somewhere between 25 to 30 K into it
and it makes maybe 350 horsepower.
Maybe, maybe, most of it's just total.
- Total you spend like 40 K on this car.
- Yeah.
- You have a mini Cooper.
- Yeah.
- Damn.
- I don't think I'd ever tell anyone
to buy a mini Cooper ever.
- I don't usually.
- I don't even wanna do the math on that money
towards power ratio cause that's...
- That's bad.
That's real bad.
- You have any advice for someone looking at Mini Cooper?
- Don't buy one.
- Yeah,
- They're fun, but they're not that fun.
(beep)It's going wrong and it's gonna keep going wrong.
- No part of anything you said it's all fun.
Not one part of it.
Really, I tell other people, I'll tell you,
just get some Legos if you want to build stuff,
because when those break, you just get more Legos
they're cheap.
- That's fair.
- That one wraps it up.
So if you have any real start or suspension needs,
don't forget fitmentindustries.com.
We gonna get away going out with concert right now
make sure to check out, get the shirt again,
or win some free concert wheels.
As I say, thank you to Charlie Meister,
for coming onto the show and let's poke fun at a, there's a,
I don't know what the thing that you put it on a bunch
of my end too, but it doesn't do much.
That's about it.
And we'll see you there.
Hello.
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