MINI2 - MINI Forum - View Single Post - New car, got a bit unsure! (Early production)

kevkbuk · May 10th, 2008, 09:50 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by eldo (original)

I just wrote a import contract on a Mini Cooper S R56 first registered in Germany 18.09.2006. The car is laser blue with white details, sunroof and almost fully equipped. The car has only run 3500 km and the previous owners are BMW themselves (Known as "ex-works" cars. "Ex-works" being the term used on cars owned by BMW)

1. Does anybody know if there are some known issues with early production cars?

No issues in particular with the early cars, some Cooper S do suffer from a cold start clatter noise but its not confined to early models.

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2. Even though my car is produced in 2006 is it called a 2007 model?

Yep, the R56 started production in September 2006, its the 2007 model year.

FYI Most of the early UK dealer demo cars were laser blue with white details. I'd wonder if it was a dealer demo car or a press car. If so you can pretty much gurantee it wasn't run in as per the manual!

May 10th, 2008, 09:50 PM	#4
kevkbuk MINI2 Senior Join Date: Sep 2006 Local Time: 04:18 AM Posts: 417 Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by eldo (original) I just wrote a import contract on a Mini Cooper S R56 first registered in Germany 18.09.2006. The car is laser blue with white details, sunroof and almost fully equipped. The car has only run 3500 km and the previous owners are BMW themselves (Known as "ex-works" cars. "Ex-works" being the term used on cars owned by BMW) 1. Does anybody know if there are some known issues with early production cars? No issues in particular with the early cars, some Cooper S do suffer from a cold start clatter noise but its not confined to early models. Quote: 2. Even though my car is produced in 2006 is it called a 2007 model? Yep, the R56 started production in September 2006, its the 2007 model year. FYI Most of the early UK dealer demo cars were laser blue with white details. I'd wonder if it was a dealer demo car or a press car. If so you can pretty much gurantee it wasn't run in as per the manual!