Hey fellow MINI2'ers!
As some of you may have known I have been having a fair bit of trouble with my 2007 MINI COOPER S. Needless to say in the short space of time that I have owned it (I bought it in September last year as a 25th Birthday gift to myself) It's been towed twice to MINI and had the timing tensioner kit replaced on it all carried out under warranty (just) played up in the first week of January and my warranty ran out the second week!!! Talk about lucky!! Or unlucky?) Even now it's still playing silly buggers on a regular occurrence. Some mornings when I goto start my car it'll run rough, rev really high or low, then stall. I can always tell when it's going to play up just by what I have witnessed it do in the past. So frustrating!
I took it in for it's 50,000k service on Monday and had everything checked over, apparently I need new rotors. I've only done 5,000k's in my car, so I'm suspecting that the damage was already done before me. I work 5 mins away from home hence the low k's! No fault codes had come up as previously it was saying that there was a knock in cylinder 3 I think it was? The mechanics started and stopped my car numerous times to try and see what the problem was, but they couldn't get it to do it. *always the way*
Moving on...I have been looking at all sorts of different cars for a replacement for my MINI & believe me it has been hard! :frown: Nothing compares in the handling and looks department to me! Needless to say I thought I would be loyal.... *again* and stick with MINI!
Had been watching a certain MINI on carsales, for well over 2 months, and wished that they would reduce it a little bit more....and to my luck they did....numerous times, each time making it a little more tempting to go and have a look at it! So on Friday, I went on a bit of a road trip with the family to go have a look and test drive and ended up putting a deposit down on a 2009 MINI COOPER S CABRIO, (I missed my old convertible too much so I had to go back! ) It's Pepper White with only 13,000k's on the clock...Built 09/09 so nearly a 2010...
Just waiting back on the financial side of things but all going well I should be able to pick it up sometime in the coming week. Provided I can manage a day where I'm not at work....which is proving to be difficult....DOH! :biggrin:
Will post pics whenever I get it! Can anyone say 4th time (MINI) lucky? I hope so!!!
As some of you may have known I have been having a fair bit of trouble with my 2007 MINI COOPER S. Needless to say in the short space of time that I have owned it (I bought it in September last year as a 25th Birthday gift to myself) It's been towed twice to MINI and had the timing tensioner kit replaced on it all carried out under warranty (just) played up in the first week of January and my warranty ran out the second week!!! Talk about lucky!! Or unlucky?) Even now it's still playing silly buggers on a regular occurrence. Some mornings when I goto start my car it'll run rough, rev really high or low, then stall. I can always tell when it's going to play up just by what I have witnessed it do in the past. So frustrating!
I took it in for it's 50,000k service on Monday and had everything checked over, apparently I need new rotors. I've only done 5,000k's in my car, so I'm suspecting that the damage was already done before me. I work 5 mins away from home hence the low k's! No fault codes had come up as previously it was saying that there was a knock in cylinder 3 I think it was? The mechanics started and stopped my car numerous times to try and see what the problem was, but they couldn't get it to do it. *always the way*
Moving on...I have been looking at all sorts of different cars for a replacement for my MINI & believe me it has been hard! :frown: Nothing compares in the handling and looks department to me! Needless to say I thought I would be loyal.... *again* and stick with MINI!
Had been watching a certain MINI on carsales, for well over 2 months, and wished that they would reduce it a little bit more....and to my luck they did....numerous times, each time making it a little more tempting to go and have a look at it! So on Friday, I went on a bit of a road trip with the family to go have a look and test drive and ended up putting a deposit down on a 2009 MINI COOPER S CABRIO, (I missed my old convertible too much so I had to go back! ) It's Pepper White with only 13,000k's on the clock...Built 09/09 so nearly a 2010...
Just waiting back on the financial side of things but all going well I should be able to pick it up sometime in the coming week. Provided I can manage a day where I'm not at work....which is proving to be difficult....DOH! :biggrin:
Will post pics whenever I get it! Can anyone say 4th time (MINI) lucky? I hope so!!!