status of JCW kit in USA

[normalizer]

Without starting another thread on the value of the John Cooper Garage Works kit, does anyone know the current status of the kit showing up in the USA?

The last I heard it was supposed to be here any moment but the dealership knows absolutely nothing about it here in Nashville....


What's the cause of the current delay, and when is it expected to be released for sale in the states?

[MGB Boy]

I can't really add any insight, all I can say is "I feel your pain". I've been bugging my dealer since March, I'm giving up hope of having it done in time for the Mt Washington MINI rally on June 21 (back in March, that seemed like a perfectly plausible thing). It went from "on sale world wide April 2" to "May" to "end of May" to "beginning of June" to ??? As of last Friday, my dealer had no ETA.

MINIUSA has shown a disappointing consistency in being late late late with everything, every step of the way. Makes it a little comical whenever any new date for anything comes out. Reminds me of Shirk Brothers Construction in "The Money Pit"; How long will it take? About two weeks!

-Ricardo

[pkowski]

Had a scheduled install of the Works package to my 2002 MCS on 6/10. Keeler Motors Latham NY called and cancelled no delivery of the Works to this dealer yet. Has any USA dealer taken delivery and installed yet?

Anxiously waiting

[MGB Boy]

Quote:

Originally posted by pkowski
Had a scheduled install of the Works package to my 2002 MCS on 6/10. Keeler Motors Latham NY called and cancelled no delivery of the Works to this dealer yet. Has any USA dealer taken delivery and installed yet?

Anxiously waiting

I'm anxiously waiting for a kit from the same dealer as you. Keeler have told me I'll get one in their first batch, but they still don't know when that first batch will arrive...

-Ricardo

[S2000&CooperS]

No kits yet at MINI of Richmond. I was told yesterday there are 800 kits on backorder .

[mikehome1]

Have you noticed the works kit on ebay.

[mvalant]

Here is the link to the works kits:

eBay works kits

[MGB Boy]

Quote:

Originally posted by Max
800 on backorder? wow. that'll take em 2 years to deliver Number 800 then? at 400 kits output per annum?

And that doesn't take into account their UK and worldwide orders.

Methinks ther'll be a lot of very disappointed peeps then.

Some questions (to which I have had few answers so far):

1. When u get your polished JCW head, who owned the head before you got it and how many miles had it done?

2. If you really insist, will JCW give you back your old supercharger, cylinder head and exhaust?

3. Where do all the original superchargers, cylinder heads and exhausts go to? (the ones they take off your car?)

I do think we should get some answers, don't you?

For crying out loud would you give it a damn rest, Max, you're a one-note tune. We've all heard it. Move on.

Although, out of curiousity, what leads you to think there will only be 400 kits per year, MINIUSA is planning on 1800. And why do you think the replacement heads are used?

-Ricardo

[gt4pete]

Each dealer will receive one kit to be put on a Demo Cooper S. After that kit is alloted, the kits will be placed on backorder until such time that a STOCK (not a couple of orders) can be supplied to each dealer. So calm down and stop whining.

Whining does not make the kits come any faster, calling MINIUSA is pointless as they have absolutely no control over how many kits they receive, only how they are distributed. And the process I have seen so far is as fair as can be asked for. Save the customer service line for those whose problems can actually be solved.


Answers to the previous questions:

1. The head is new. By law, any part that is remanufacturered must be disclosed to you prior to it's installation.

2. You can "really insist" by paying the $1000 core charge on top of the $4500 and you can keep your cylinder head and supercharger (or $500 for one or the other).

3. The exhausts are chucked as scrap metal (saving that 50lbs of scrap is beyond me). The superchargers and cylinder heads will be sent back to BMWNA for examination and refurbishing for use as warranty parts and/or sold as reman'd units to dealers, unless you pay the core and keep it. And NO they will not go back to the factory to be installed in new Cooper S's (cause I know it's gonna be asked sooner or later). The myriad of laws that would be broken by doing that one would take a year to compile.


I'm beginning to wonder if my discussions about this kit with customers in the showroom and reading here on MINI2 are dealing with milk on the floor, or parts for a car.

[bigbaddaboom]

Sorry a repeating post.

[normalizer]

MINI of Nashville called and the kits are here, at least mine is.... gotta schedule a time to take the car in, and come up with the cash of course....

[MGB Boy]

Quote:

Originally posted by gt4pete
Each dealer will receive one kit to be put on a Demo Cooper S. After that kit is alloted, the kits will be placed on backorder until such time that a STOCK (not a couple of orders) can be supplied to each dealer. So calm down and stop whining.

Whining does not make the kits come any faster, calling MINIUSA is pointless as they have absolutely no control over how many kits they receive, only how they are distributed. And the process I have seen so far is as fair as can be asked for. Save the customer service line for those whose problems can actually be solved.

...


I'm beginning to wonder if my discussions about this kit with customers in the showroom and reading here on MINI2 are dealing with milk on the floor, or parts for a car.

Nice attitude, Pete.

-Ricardo

[Ken NYC]

Still waiting here in NYC, dealer said give him two more weeks.

With some kits now showing up, there seems to be some reason for hope.

Just to add to the rumour mill, the guy I ordered it from said there would be only 1000 kits for the US this year.

[Andy@Ross-Tech.com]

[macncheese]

Why does their logo have a surfboard?