{"id":1685,"date":"2016-03-26T02:09:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T02:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2016-03-26T02:09:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T02:09:51","slug":"cravenspeed-mini-cooper-door-sill-plate-diy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/cravenspeed-mini-cooper-door-sill-plate-diy\/","title":{"rendered":"CravenSpeed MINI Cooper Door Sill Plate DIY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point you&#8217;re going to want to do this mod. \u00a0Will it make you faster, better looking or get the chickweed out of your lawn? \u00a0No. \u00a0You&#8217;re going to want to do it for one of two reasons: 1.) You&#8217;ve become obsessed with removing all the shiny bits from your car; or 2.) Your current sill plates look like crap (my case). \u00a0Whatever your reason, this is an easy 15 minute DIY project and the only tool you probably need is a plastic pry tool, and maybe some goo-gone.<\/p>\n<p>First some background. \u00a0If you look in the MINI parts catalog for sill plates, you&#8217;ll find part nr.\u00a0<a class=\"inline-a\" title=\"Click for details\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realoem.com\/bmw\/enUS\/part?id=RE33-USA-05-2006-R53-Mini-Cooper_S&amp;mg=51&amp;sg=55&amp;diagId=51_4349&amp;q=51717200469\">51717200469<\/a>\u00a0for the Cooper S (number 4 in the drawing below). They&#8217;re bright aluminum with a printed &#8220;Cooper S&#8221; and sell for about $56 each. \u00a0Their function is to cover up the four clips that hold the top of the side skirt to the sill. \u00a0If you look on the inter-webs, you can find different versions, some with checkers, others JCW, some that even light up. \u00a0Since ours got all banged up taking the stock seats in and out of the car a couple of times, we thought it was time to find something a little more substantial and a little less flashy. \u00a0Enter the CravenSpeed black sill plates.<\/p>\n<p>CravenSpeed used to make these plates primarily to people who want to black-out their cars. \u00a0They&#8217;re a little less expensive than stock and are much more substantial. \u00a0Swapping them out couldn&#8217;t be more straight forward. \u00a0Find a plastic pry tool, start at one edge and pry away. \u00a0Since the stock ones are fairly thin metal, be careful to not cut your hand as you run the tool along the edge. \u00a0If the old ones do not come up cleanly, use some goo-gone to clean up the old adhesive. \u00a0Since the 3M adhesive the new ones use is pretty robust, we didn&#8217;t bother to clean them up too much as we know this stuff sticks to almost anything. \u00a0They certainly look better than the banged-up ones they replaced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sillplates.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1696\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1696\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sillplates-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"sillplates\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0093.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1692\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0093-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"front and back\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0094.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1691\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0094-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ends\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0096.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1690\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0096-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dents\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0097.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1689\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0097-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"pry\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0099-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0099-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"goo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0108.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1686\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1686\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0108-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"new plates\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point you&#8217;re going to want to do this mod. \u00a0Will it make you faster, better looking or get the chickweed out of your lawn? \u00a0No. \u00a0You&#8217;re going to want to do it for one of two reasons: 1.) You&#8217;ve become obsessed with removing all the shiny bits from your car; or 2.) Your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/cravenspeed-mini-cooper-door-sill-plate-diy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CravenSpeed MINI Cooper Door Sill Plate DIY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,14,19],"tags":[84,95,254],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","category-mini","category-slider","tag-cravenspeed","tag-door-sill","tag-slider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}