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  1. 8th April 2008, 03:42 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by john View Post
    It's designed for the MINI and on the first of them you removed the rubber and lodged it in the Apex Valve to set the perameters of the wedge.

    However few people ever used it and it was not an option on later cars but the design was kept for the key ring.
    Yeah. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

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  2. 8th April 2008, 04:08 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by AndyP & Lenore View Post
    Yeah. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

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    Sheesh, how long you been buying Mini's everyone knows about the Apex Valve, worked on my first cooper and latterly on my R53 S :)
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    Quote Originally Posted by john View Post
    the Apex Valve
    The what now?? <checks date>

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  4. 8th April 2008, 04:38 PM #14
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    Erm, before the mods intervene, i think this has gone way off topic, sorry ace dude :o
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  5. 8th April 2008, 04:45 PM #15
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    Ive used it once as a bottle opener


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    i dunno what its really for, but its got a use
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