{"id":426,"date":"2008-12-09T13:59:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T21:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2008-12-09T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T21:59:16","slug":"inspection-ii-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Inspection II Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m close to 73,000 miles and the inspection interval is somewhere near 300 so I think I am pretty close to my &#8216;Inspection II&#8217;. After the $300 oil change I can&#8217;t even begin to imagine what Brecht would want for this. So I called them but they couldn&#8217;t tell me as all MINI Motoring advisors were busy, but one will call me back (presumably when the supercomputer has worked it out).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, really is no way I am taking it there, instead I will piecemeal it out a bit at a time. I&#8217;ve been trying to find out what is actually in the inspection and I think it&#8217;s the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>oil change<\/li>\n<li>spark plug change<\/li>\n<li>pulley belt<\/li>\n<li>brake flush<\/li>\n<li>coolant flush<\/li>\n<li>air filter change<\/li>\n<li>micro filter change<\/li>\n<li>a bunch of inspections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My Dad is visiting right now and said he&#8217;d help give the oil change a go if I get the tools. I&#8217;d need the special wrench and some stands, oh and the oil pan (and a place to &#8216;dump&#8217; the oil). Air filter I can do myself (I think!), and I presume I could get the brake and coolant flushes done at any regular garage or lube place.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, I called a local Land Rover garage that also offers MINI servicing (with techs they stole from Brecht) and they said &#8220;around $630&#8221; which is <em>ouch<\/em> but maybe not as ouch as I was expecting. <\/p>\n<p>Also called a MINI place recommended on the SCMM forums, they quoted me $400 or so for the Inspection II but said that the brake fluid and coolant flushes are separate (about $400 more) with a 10% discount for first time and AAA customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m close to 73,000 miles and the inspection interval is somewhere near 300 so I think I am pretty close to my &#8216;Inspection II&#8217;. After the $300 oil change I can&#8217;t even begin to imagine what Brecht would want for this. So I called them but they couldn&#8217;t tell me as all MINI Motoring advisors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=426\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inspection II Time&#8221;<\/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-426","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\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}