I recently bought an '05 Mini convertible BECAUSE I liked the way it looked and drove. It's strictly a 2nd car for me to ONLY be driven mostly on convertible days as I have a very nice RR Evoque for a regular ride. I would be very surprised if I drove the Mini more than 1,500-2,000 miles annually.

The car has 65,000 on the clock. What I failed to do was look down the road at scheduled maintenance, mainly things like the timing belt, etc. Today I worked up my nerve to check the manuals about "things to come".

However, in all the manuals including the maintenance booklet, I find NOTHING about future schedule (recommended) maintenance. I'm wondering if I'm missing a manual? Does anyone know when my Mini should have the timing chain looked at or replaced?

The car has condition monitoring, so it will tell you when it would like servicing etc, all depends on use, mileage, how its driven, fast, slow, short journeys, long journeys.
Leave it to the car to tell you, MINI's are clever like that. :biggrin:
I suppose its nice to know well in advance if a big bill is approaching, but being a new Range Rover owner too I wouldnt have thought cost would be too much of a problem, bit like me, Ive got one of those too and it doesnt worry me either. ;)

I have a 2005 Justa Convertible with 110,000km on the clock and was looking at the timing chain when I bought it, but it turns out the timing chain doesn't need to be replaced at a set interval as its not a timimg belt.

The reason I bought a Justa was that they don't seem to have all the problems that the S seem to develop.

The most expensive problem you might get is if the top stops working and you aren't able to fix it yourself.

I suppose its nice to know well in advance if a big bill is approaching, but being a new Range Rover owner too I wouldnt have thought cost would be too much of a problem, bit like me, Ive got one of those too and it doesnt worry me either. ;)

Actually I'm not worried about a big bill. I would just feel a little foolish however if I had to "pop" for a timing belt shortly after buying the 2nd hand Mini. It's almost as much fun as driving my Evoque.

Thanks for the input.