This is becoming quite worrying. If you look at the "vibration" thread as well. My 3 month old Dooper sounds like a bag of nails and it's all down to the air intake hose. The dealer has had a go twice, works for a few miles then the vibration starts up again. Sounds like the whole dash is vibrating although it's down to this one hose. The air intake "entrance" vibrates plastic on plastic the rest of the hose falls off the lug and yes the handling without sports suspension is odd. For such an expensive car you would have thought Mini would have made sure the cheapness from the Ford and Peugeot/Citroen applications and design bit of this engine would have been checked and rectified.
We have a Dooper Clubman on order, but if the dealer can't sort this soon then I think I will cancel. I just hate rattles and vibration and paying what will be 22 g's is a lot for a car BMW don't seem to have bothered keeping the quality up in.
Steffi |