$1,724.10. That’s what the total to get the car out of the shop was. $1,071.41 of that was the price of a new seat cushion for the passenger side of the Mini. The airbag sensor is integrated into the seat, so the whole shooting match had to be replaced. The courtesy check of the car …
The Mini is in the shop waiting for the mechanics to determine how to fix the passenger airbag sensor alarm. Will it be the $1,400 charge to remove the seat altogether and replace the sensor? Will it be something simpler? Stay tuned! Oh, and it’s due for its 60,000 mile checkup, which includes a full …
Back in March I mentioned the passenger-side air bag sensor had come on on the Mini. It corrected itself a few days later and I thought no more of it. Well, it reappeared about a week ago and it hasn’t gone off. I just called Mini of Honolulu and got a tentative quote to repair …
The registration cost for the 1997 Geo in 2011 was $178.42. That was the last time I registered that car. Last year it was my first with the 2005 Mini. It cost $274.35. Surprise, surprise, the dollars didn’t change this year; it remained $274.35. That’s still a bit of a sticker shock considering the consistently …
Well, that’s an overstatement. I was in a parking structure the other day trying to back out of a tight spot next to a support column. I misjudged the distance the passenger-side external mirror extended and brushed the column hard enough to break the clips which hold the mirror cap on, and then compounded that …
Today I went to the grocery store and put a couple of sacks on the passenger seat when I came out. Lo and behold, the “Passenger Airbag Off” light that I talked about yesterday went out. This implies to me that it’s a sensor problem rather than an airbag problem. The internet tells me that …
You know the rubber mounting kit you attach to your bumper and then you screw the license plate to that? Somehow I managed to hook the bottom of the one on the front of the car to a parking curb when we went out this morning. I got home and discovered that one of the …
so why haven’t gas prices fallen yet?!? My Geo had a 7-plus-gallon tank. The Mini has a 12-plus-gallon tank. Yowsers.
I’m a single-car person again. Got about what I expected on a good day, not what we asked.
I’m sitting around awaiting several different potential buyers for my ’97 Geo. The Kelley Blue Book value for one that old in fair condition is $2,400, which seems a little high to me. I’m asking for $1,200 but being realistic.