Sorry Dogger, but you won`t really accept that will you?
You will be aware that at some time in your MINI`s life various trim items may need removing (and refitted!) for all manner of reasons.
No doubt, perhaps even now, certain trim fixings will be going through on-going tooling improvements and tolerance changes.
Ambient temperature changes can have a big influence on the fit, or otherwise, of many plastic trim parts.
But, wanna bet that the US bound MINI`s will not suffer the same problems?