| That's Incredibly Petty
What dealership did you go to? That's incredibly petty. My understanding is that it's free servicing for 36 months, 36,000 miles--when your OBC indicates that your service interval is up. It looks like you were in range for a servicing when you hit 36,000 miles, in my opinion.
I had my first service at 10,000, with a 1,000 miles left to the interval, but I was going to a MINI track day so they did it when I had my car inspected.
At about 20,000 it told me I had 9,000 to go, so I paid for an oil and filter change and tire rotation because I knew I was going to do a lot of high speed long range driving. I think it was $125. They did not reset my OBC, and told me to bring it in again when indicated.
Now I'm at 27K+, and it's telling me I have 1800 miles to go. I'd do another oil change myself if it was not under warranty.
CALL MINI USA and get your free service--I wouldn't budge on this one. What a breakdown for your MINI dealer. Sad. | 
