Yes, I’m a bad MINI care-taker, I’ve never claimed otherwise but sometimes even I feel bad about my lack of knowledge of what’s going on under the bonnet. Take this morning: the wife’s Camry has a dead batter so we’ll use the MINI to give a jump start. Pop the hood and, er, yeah where is the damn battery? I was able to find the +ve terminal but had to get the handbook out to find out where to attach the other cable. Camry started and off I went to the INS office for some fingerprint taking. En route I wondered – so where is the damn battery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes, I’m a bad MINI care-taker, I’ve never claimed otherwise but sometimes even I feel bad about my lack of knowledge of what’s going on under the bonnet. Take this morning: the wife’s Camry has a dead batter so we’ll use the MINI to give a jump start. Pop the hood and, er, yeah where … Continue reading “I Should Look Under the Bonnet More Often”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}