My Thunder Grey F56 Cooper S - The Project Thread!

Thank you!

I want to bring the car to Germany in the summer....

Thank you!!

Bit of an update today...

So after deciding to turn my attention to the interior I ordered a custom steering wheel and also the JCW gear knob with the aluminium shaft.

I have been sent a couple of shots of the finished product from the guy in Latvia who has completed the work on my spare steering wheel.

He has added:

Flat bottom
Thicker padding
Re trim in napa leather with alcantara
Red stitiching
Red centre band

He has provided a great service, sending me messages daily with progress updates and he answered loads of questions before I posted it out to him! It took a week for Parcel Farce to deliver it to him, and he's managed to turn this around in 2 days! Should be back in the post to me by tomorrow fingers crossed.

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/Jolly_uk/72D0AB73-527D-4804-A5CC-F7695DB4FA34.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/Jolly_uk/9FD50628-DE0A-4E92-953D-DB9BD6610F86.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/Jolly_uk/58A4A35E-619F-41B7-9768-2EE1C71347AB.jpg]

The gear knob looks like this:

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Just had another update from him, it's going in the post today and he's built it all back up

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/Jolly_uk/B703C1E8-BB08-4E0A-8CAB-CC7135B3F232.jpg]

and here's a 50/50 to show old vs new:

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So the JCW gear knob turned up today - differences are red stitch on the gaiter and red lettering on the knob. The other obvious change is the aluminium shaft and smaller gaiter.

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/Jolly_uk/99F6364E-B8F7-4E33-A948-202595B2399D.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/Jolly_uk/CFF259BF-6D64-48AC-A726-A33C45B6D9D5.jpg]

It is only a visual upgrade to be honest, but I think it looks great.

Final job for the wheel is to try and find somewhere to carbon skin the 3 spokes.....

Zitat von derfuchs77

perfect....

looks really nice...

Thanks!!

Zitat von Apona

Nice!!!

How much coast it?

245 EUR which included return postage to the UK from Latvia

Zitat von PvK

Nice!! I hate my current steeringwheel after having a real JCW full leather steeringwheel in my R52. The "JCW" badged steeringwheel i have now is not thick enough and not soft enough when you grab it. I'm really looking forward to a real JCW F5.. series steeringwheel!

I don't think MINI will ever make anything like that for the F56. I hope I am proved wrong, but the aftermarket range is awful from MINI for the F56. No JCW carbon, no JCW seats, no JCW steering wheel / gear knob / hand brake

Its really poor from MINI