Hi

There's been a couple of posts about superchargers and I have searched the forums but havent found a single post where a supercharger has fully broken, there might be some but what I searched for didnt turn any up, so I guess its not that rife given there must be a fair few owners with high mileage examples.

I am in the boat of having to get a high mileage version so Im wondering if the supercharger does brake has anyone here had it done and knows the costs?

Just been having a look around t'interweb :biggrin: & came across this, some good info there..

Auto X Cooper MINI Cooper Supercharger Rebuild Service R53 M45 Eaton PTO Water Pump Super Charger (http://www.autoxcooper.com/mini_cooper_supercharger_rebuild_service.html)

If you have a look on the net for 'M45 Eaton Supercharger' I'm sure you'll come up with a lot more info on rebuilds etc.

Maybe even check the MX5 forums out, they use the same 'charger as us (M45 Eaton) when they do their blower conversions. :wink:

I've heard that they go for around £300-ish on ebay,

Ah great thanks man! sounds not as bad as I thought. shall read up, £300 would be alright, thought it would be thousands. Shall read up further!

When I was sourcing a very similar Eaton Supercharger unit for a Mercedes C-Class last year, they were about £300 for good used, approx £1000 brand new from Mercedes Parts Dept., and reconditioned were somewhere inbetween on cost but quite hard to find in UK.

I'm going to keep my cooper I think now and get a cooper s as my next car hopefully, whenever that will be. But at least I know its not a major issue with the supercharger.

I'm going to keep my cooper I think now and get a cooper s as my next car hopefully, whenever that will be.

Sooner rather than later, probably... it's a slippery slope. ;)

I'm going to keep my cooper I think now and get a cooper s as my next car hopefully, whenever that will be. But at least I know its not a major issue with the supercharger.


I am very much in the same boat as you. I've had my 05 plate Cooper for around 3 months now I think and I'm already pricing up the S :eek:

The scary thing is, I paid 6 for my Cooper with 45,000 miles on the clock. A quick browse of Auto Trader shows me plenty of 04/05 R53's with anywhere from 50/70,000 on the clock (not that big a difference to my cooper on the grand scheme of things I don't think?) for anywhere from £5-6,000.

Like I said, I haven't had my Cooper for long and I'm absolutly in love with it but the thought of an S is already very, very tempting. Add to that the fact i'd be wanting to put around 1500-1800's worth of modding into my Cooper and upgrading to the S so early on (no need to buy a body kit, alloys etc) is almost looking a sensible option.