[euan]

Finally! After having the car for 8 months now, and the car being into the dealers about 5/6 times now, the thing is perfect again.

The rattle in the dashboard is gone, the seats (which were replaced) are not squeeky and the boot rattle is gone. Apparently, they took the dash to bits and did some odds in there, the boot had new bits fitted (I can't remember what). My only hope is that the new seats (which were on order for 6-8 weeks!!!) don't start squeeking again after some mileage.

So if your Cooper squeeks, have faith, when it doesn't anymore it makes it all worthwhile. The thing was really bugging me before it was fixed. Only downside, I had a 320td SE while my Cooper was getting fixed, and I liked it a lot. Need to take my Coop for a run today to remind myself how good it is :-)

[Monsta Mo Mini]

Your Copper must have been put together by the same Friday afternoon shift as mine. Your list of squeaks and creaks is identical to mine - I'm nearly ther having had the car back 6 times now.

[Willie M]

Ah! So it's not just me with the squeaking seats!!

Interested to read both of your comments. Again my own list of niggles is practically identical.

I've fixed the boot-latch myself, courtesy of a couple of pieces of insulating tape, but I'm going to be hassling my dealer about the dashboard and the seats.

Cheers,

Willie

[HarryHBMCC]

Willie, how long have you been driving your MINI? I ask because the dash in my Cooper squeeked for the first couple of weeks and then went away. I brought it in and went on a test drive with them and it wouldn't do it. Now it only does it rarely when it is either very cold and I have the heat on high or very hot and I have the AC on very high.

I too fixed the hatch with some tape. My driver's seat has squeeked a few times but I find changing the settings to something else and then back fixes it, so it must just need some lubing.

I drove part of the way in to work today with the radio off just to listen to the engine and the car is remarkably quiet! Almost 6500km on it, engine is working and sounding great! I had to pull out into 60MPH traffic today, nice redline shifts had me going faster than traffic before I knew it.

Harry

[zoooooom]

My car is squeek free and fault free

[Monsta Mo Mini]

Come on Zoooom...

You're not trying to tell me your arse didn't let out a squeak while going round some of those corners the other week.

Calum

[zoooooom]

Quote:

Originally posted by Monsta Mo Mini
Come on Zoooom...

You're not trying to tell me your arse didn't let out a squeak while going round some of those corners the other week.

Calum

TUT TUT what ever do you mean

[Willie M]

Quote:

Originally posted by HarryIndiBlue
Willie, how long have you been driving your MINI? I ask because the dash in my Cooper squeeked for the first couple of weeks and then went away.

My driver's seat has squeeked a few times but I find changing the settings to something else and then back fixes it, so it must just need some lubing.

I drove part of the way in to work today with the radio off just to listen to the engine and the car is remarkably quiet! Almost 6500km on it, engine is working and sounding great! I had to pull out into 60MPH traffic today, nice redline shifts had me going faster than traffic before I knew it.

Harry

Harry

I've had my car just over 3 months now. The dashboard rattle is only noticible at slow speeds (around 20-30 MPH)and comes from the front rh side, just below the windscreen.

Oh, and before Zoooooom comes back with a witty retort, yes I know the car shouldn't be travelling at 20-30 MPH Fortunately it only goes this slow when I'm meandering around Tesco's car park looking for a space

The drivers seat and passenger seat both squeak, not really loud but enough to irritate after a while. I'll try fiddling with the settings a few times to see if this helps but I think most of the noise is coming from the springs in the base of the seats.

Good to hear you're enjoying your car. My own car is just coming up for 2000 miles and I'm gradually starting to increase the revs on the gearshifts. I've got some lovely little twisty roads around where I live so you can be sure I'm having plenty fun.

All in all I'm in love with the car (so's my wife). It's the first car I've had in a long while that I literally look for an excuse to go out and drive in

Cheers,

Willie

[Monsta Mo Mini]

The dashboard had to come off before they sorted it out, the drivers seat has been replaced due to faulty mechanism (and squeak) and now the paneling in the rear has started to rattle ocassionally. Both seats have started squeaking again - aaaarrrrgh!!!

That's the car just coming up to 6000miles and mechanically I couldn't ask for more (maybe a bit more bhp but..)

Another trip to the dealer methinks

[euan]

Sounds like a trip to the dealer is worthwhile!

The dashboard thing was completely sorted on mine, they did in fact take it all out etc, it's a hassle but it makes it worth while.

Are you one of the two people who have greeted me in Edinburgh? It all seems to be posh middle aged women who are just not interested. Mind you,there is a bloke in my gym who flashed from a mini, G plate, with a full bank of fogs the other day, which made me laugh!

[Monsta Mo Mini]

I know what you mean - there's an OAP got a DS Cooper S around here and she hasn't got a clue - poor car will never go over 2K revs.

I may have seen you about - I'm usually to be found whizzing about Leith Walk and the east end - I'm the only red cooper with the 17" S-spokes in town so i'm not too easy to miss.

Hope to see you on the next run....

C

[Mini Cruiser]

ive had my one just under a month, and the lubar mechanism, pings and hits u in the back when u brake, im having it replaced next week, but the dash is driving me crazy!!! squeaks like mad, its cuming from the left hand corner by the windscreen, i dont know if i want them taking my dash out thou!

When they did urs did they scratch or mark it in anyway?

[Monsta Mo Mini]

The squeak on mine came from the exact same spot- You'd never know the dash had been touched - not a mark so don't worry. I Think thay added rubber washers at all the contact points - certainly seems to work . Why don't they do these things to start with a save everyone a lot of bother.

C

[stokey]

Only had my Cooper for a week and youch wood it has far less squeaks than my One did, my only concern is a Squeak coming from the drivers door window when fully up, with the window open an inch it is fine. Is it just the window seal needing to bed in or will it require a trip to the dealer?

[HarryHBMCC]

I'd give it time to bed in before seeing the dealer if I were you. My dash and driver's door squeeks went away on their own after 2 weeks and are still gone 4 months later.

Harry

[M.2]

[quote]Originally posted by Willie M
[b]Ah! So it's not just me with the squeaking seats!!


I've fixed the boot-latch myself, courtesy of a couple of pieces of insulating tape.


Where did you fit the tape?

[Willie M]

Quote:

Originally posted by M.2

Where did you fit the tape?

Just wrapped some tape around the 'U' shaped metal catch on the tailgate, that locates in the catch mechanism on the boot sill.

That was three weeks ago and it's worked a treat.

Cheers,

Willie

[Monsta Mo Mini]

A 5 minute trip to the dealer sorted my rattleing boot - no problems since

[cbrsix]

My dealer, who to be fair seems to have fixed the squeaky driver's seat permanently, had my Cooper (March build) in on Monday and Tuesday for the third attempt at eradicating the dreaded dashboard rattle. I picked it up last night and drove back home via the coast road and......no rattle. Brilliant!

Got about a quarter of a mile from home this morning and aaaaaaaaagh! Rattle rattle rattle.

I'm not sure whether to give up on this one. It can't be doing the dash any good taking it to bits repeatedly and it's not the sort of catastrophic problem that would justify a replacement car. It is SO f*****g irritating though.
Looks like I'll have to have a bash at sorting it out myself or resort to turning the stereo volume up to pain threshold.

Incidentally, is there any coincidence in the fact that several of the previous posters in this thread are from East/Central Scotland? Bad batch of cars perhaps, or are we just a touch sensitive to extraneous rattles and squeaks!

[Monsta Mo Mini]

Could it also be something to do with the crap road surfaces we have around here. Enough to shake your fillings out (especially with sports suspension). Doesn't Edinburgh offically have the worst roads in Britain(?)

Calum