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cas · Jan 29th, 2002, 01:33 PM

The Mini is featured tonight at 7.00pm!

ricardo · Jan 29th, 2002, 01:44 PM

I suppose I should reserve judgment until I've seen it, but if it's anything like the programme's usual content it will be biased, ill-informed and inaccurate.

R1 · Jan 29th, 2002, 01:50 PM

And it will probably kill the early MINI's residuals!!

ELISEBOY · Jan 29th, 2002, 02:08 PM

anyone from here featured ?

ELISEBOY · Jan 29th, 2002, 02:28 PM

well that was a waste of time

nothing that we never knew about the electrics and whats all that about grass on the cat?!?!?!?!??!

no mention of the pulling to the left

good old watchdog ........

dinger · Jan 29th, 2002, 02:29 PM

Well there you go guys

All you members that have suffered the opening of the windows and the sunroof as well as being locked in or out go back to your dealer and they will exchange it for a new one.

One thing that puzzles me is the smoking grass,surely if it was stuck on the exhaust ie the cat which is underneath the car why did the smoke come from under the bonnet.

Apial · Jan 29th, 2002, 02:37 PM

So they think a replacement MINI will solve the problem? It'll just end up with them driving around in circles, anti-clockwise ones that is.

Tell them what you think at www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog .

Silverstone · Jan 29th, 2002, 02:42 PM

They had a lot of fun screaming around in a pair of MINI's for the cameras - shame they didn't spend as much time researching the story!

The woman with the ghosts in the electrics had a fair point, but the other with grass burning on her exhaust seems a complete red herring.

The UK press just love the opportunity to knock BMW if they can - all at our expense (if you own a MINI).

Bah-Humbug

Applejack · Jan 29th, 2002, 02:43 PM

They tried to slag it off... but the MINI and BMW still I feel won the moral victory.

Fantastic car

R1 · Jan 29th, 2002, 02:47 PM

Hey, I've had more small niggles with my car than the woman with the electrical problems. I think I may go and talk to my dealer and see if I can get a new MINI Cooper also!

Crashandburn · Jan 29th, 2002, 02:53 PM

Link to that pile of garbage, should anyone be desperate enough.

Watchdog on the MINI

Applejack · Jan 29th, 2002, 02:57 PM

What's this about smoking grass in the MINI

I know I'm in the North West, and in the midst of a campaign to legalise the stuff in the UK

But surly we can't have people smoking pott in the MINI

ELISEBOY · Jan 29th, 2002, 02:59 PM

lol
v funny
better places to have it than under the bonnet

smartbomb · Jan 29th, 2002, 03:03 PM

What a great piece of TV journalism. Totally objective and featuring very dangerous and nasty problems.
I think the lady with the red Cooper was the one with the problem of smoking grass.....
Watchdog is such a pile of briefs, I mean if I e-mail them and tell them that a shirt I bought the other day had a slight crease in it, they'd turn it into a 10 minute soap opera....

Viscount Charles · Jan 29th, 2002, 03:11 PM

"I don't like the burning smell - I'll have to sell the car!" - silly cow should cut the grass instead. Problem solved - another MINI adventure!

smartbomb · Jan 29th, 2002, 03:14 PM

I think the well informed journalists forgot to mention that she lives in the middle of a field surrounded by other 'like minded' job-dodgers, trying to replace cars they perhaps wish they hadn't bought....!!!!

ELISEBOY · Jan 29th, 2002, 03:15 PM

can i just add about the crappy micheal blow the bloody doors off gag
that just sooo never worked

even when he tried to explain it away at the end

smartbomb · Jan 29th, 2002, 03:20 PM

Nicky Campbell = The thinking mans Pete Waterman.

ricardo · Jan 29th, 2002, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by smartbomb
...she lives in the middle of a field surrounded by other 'like minded' job-dodgers....

I'll have you know, I resemble that remark!!

Applejack · Jan 29th, 2002, 04:01 PM

Ok everyone, lets face it we are bias. This is a MINI site and they tried to build a crass argument against a fantastic product.

It's an own goal Watchdog, but we do have to say what a load of Rubbish, shameful excuse for journalism.

Viscount Charles, love the line

Quote:

Originally posted by Viscount Charles
"I don't like the burning smell - I'll have to sell the car!" - silly cow should cut the grass instead. Problem solved - another MINI adventure!

[b]God you made me laugh, and just for that, I'll just say BRG, the only colour... but that's another thread.

Jan 29th, 2002, 01:33 PM	#1
cas MINI2 Newbie Join Date: Oct 2001 Local Time: 08:52 AM Posts: 22 Offline	BBC Watchdog The Mini is featured tonight at 7.00pm!

Jan 29th, 2002, 01:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
ricardo MINI2 Senior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Norfolk Local Time: 09:52 AM Posts: 546 Offline	BBC Watchdog I suppose I should reserve judgment until I've seen it, but if it's anything like the programme's usual content it will be biased, ill-informed and inaccurate.

Jan 29th, 2002, 02:37 PM	#7 (permalink)
Apial MINI2 Master Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Lincolnshire Wolds Local Time: 09:52 AM Posts: 825 Offline	So they think a replacement MINI will solve the problem? It'll just end up with them driving around in circles, anti-clockwise ones that is. Tell them what you think at www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog . Balloons? http://www.loony-balloony.co.uk

Jan 29th, 2002, 02:42 PM	#8 (permalink)
Silverstone MINI2 Regular Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Silverstone Local Time: 08:52 AM Posts: 156 Offline	Watchdog - Utter Pants! They had a lot of fun screaming around in a pair of MINI's for the cameras - shame they didn't spend as much time researching the story! The woman with the ghosts in the electrics had a fair point, but the other with grass burning on her exhaust seems a complete red herring. The UK press just love the opportunity to knock BMW if they can - all at our expense (if you own a MINI). Bah-Humbug Cooper Chili - Silk Green & Black, Climate Contol, Heated Jets, ASC+T, Alarm Arrived Nov 30 - Love it to bits

Jan 29th, 2002, 02:43 PM	#9 (permalink)
Applejack MINI2 Newbie Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Cheshire. Flash if you pass!! Local Time: 08:52 AM Posts: 44 Offline	Watchdog UK TV this evening They tried to slag it off... but the MINI and BMW still I feel won the moral victory. Fantastic car Hi from applejack Member since 2001

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Jan 29th, 2002, 01:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
R1 Addicted to Speed!! Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..."B" roads!! Local Time: 09:52 AM Posts: 4,915 Offline	And it will probably kill the early MINI's residuals!!

Jan 29th, 2002, 02:08 PM	#4 (permalink)
ELISEBOY MINI2 Master Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Essex Local Time: 09:52 AM Posts: 2,163 Offline	anyone from here featured ?

Jan 29th, 2002, 02:28 PM	#5 (permalink)
ELISEBOY MINI2 Master Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Essex Local Time: 09:52 AM Posts: 2,163 Offline	well that was a waste of time nothing that we never knew about the electrics and whats all that about grass on the cat?!?!?!?!??! no mention of the pulling to the left good old watchdog ........

Jan 29th, 2002, 02:29 PM	#6 (permalink)
dinger TT or not TT Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Tunbridge Wells,Kent Local Time: 08:52 AM Posts: 3,607 Offline	Well there you go guys All you members that have suffered the opening of the windows and the sunroof as well as being locked in or out go back to your dealer and they will exchange it for a new one. One thing that puzzles me is the smoking grass,surely if it was stuck on the exhaust ie the cat which is underneath the car why did the smoke come from under the bonnet.

Jan 29th, 2002, 02:47 PM	#10 (permalink)
R1 Addicted to Speed!! Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..."B" roads!! Local Time: 09:52 AM Posts: 4,915 Offline	Hey, I've had more small niggles with my car than the woman with the electrical problems. I think I may go and talk to my dealer and see if I can get a new MINI Cooper also!

Jan 29th, 2002, 02:53 PM	#11 (permalink)
Crashandburn MINI2 Regular Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Glasgow Local Time: 09:52 AM Posts: 338 Offline	Link to that pile of garbage, should anyone be desperate enough. Watchdog on the MINI

Jan 29th, 2002, 02:57 PM	#12 (permalink)
Applejack MINI2 Newbie Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Cheshire. Flash if you pass!! Local Time: 08:52 AM Posts: 44 Offline	What's this about smoking grass in the MINI I know I'm in the North West, and in the midst of a campaign to legalise the stuff in the UK But surly we can't have people smoking pott in the MINI Hi from applejack Member since 2001

Jan 29th, 2002, 02:59 PM	#13 (permalink)
ELISEBOY MINI2 Master Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Essex Local Time: 09:52 AM Posts: 2,163 Offline	lol v funny better places to have it than under the bonnet

Jan 29th, 2002, 03:03 PM	#14 (permalink)
smartbomb Bring the noise My Classifieds Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Trancentral Local Time: 08:52 AM Posts: 2,437 Offline	What a great piece of TV journalism. Totally objective and featuring very dangerous and nasty problems. I think the lady with the red Cooper was the one with the problem of smoking grass..... Watchdog is such a pile of briefs, I mean if I e-mail them and tell them that a shirt I bought the other day had a slight crease in it, they'd turn it into a 10 minute soap opera....

Jan 29th, 2002, 03:11 PM	#15 (permalink)
Viscount Charles MINI2 Senior Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: uk Local Time: 08:52 AM Posts: 449 Offline	"I don't like the burning smell - I'll have to sell the car!" - silly cow should cut the grass instead. Problem solved - another MINI adventure! Ordered my "S" August '01. Arrived July '02. EB with white roof, wheels and stripes, Chili pack, DSC and climate control. Hate those 17" runflats though. Can now be seen all over the West Midlands, as a blue blur passing everything at speed

Jan 29th, 2002, 03:14 PM	#16 (permalink)
smartbomb Bring the noise My Classifieds Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Trancentral Local Time: 08:52 AM Posts: 2,437 Offline	I think the well informed journalists forgot to mention that she lives in the middle of a field surrounded by other 'like minded' job-dodgers, trying to replace cars they perhaps wish they hadn't bought....!!!!

Jan 29th, 2002, 03:15 PM	#17 (permalink)
ELISEBOY MINI2 Master Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Essex Local Time: 09:52 AM Posts: 2,163 Offline	can i just add about the crappy micheal blow the bloody doors off gag that just sooo never worked even when he tried to explain it away at the end

Jan 29th, 2002, 03:20 PM	#18 (permalink)
smartbomb Bring the noise My Classifieds Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Trancentral Local Time: 08:52 AM Posts: 2,437 Offline	Nicky Campbell = The thinking mans Pete Waterman.

Jan 29th, 2002, 04:00 PM	#19 (permalink)
ricardo MINI2 Senior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Norfolk Local Time: 09:52 AM Posts: 546 Offline	Oi!! Quote: Originally posted by smartbomb ...she lives in the middle of a field surrounded by other 'like minded' job-dodgers.... I'll have you know, I resemble that remark!!

Jan 29th, 2002, 04:01 PM	#20 (permalink)
Applejack MINI2 Newbie Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Cheshire. Flash if you pass!! Local Time: 08:52 AM Posts: 44 Offline	Ok everyone, lets face it we are bias. This is a MINI site and they tried to build a crass argument against a fantastic product. It's an own goal Watchdog, but we do have to say what a load of Rubbish, shameful excuse for journalism. Viscount Charles, love the line Quote: Originally posted by Viscount Charles "I don't like the burning smell - I'll have to sell the car!" - silly cow should cut the grass instead. Problem solved - another MINI adventure! [b]God you made me laugh, and just for that, I'll just say BRG, the only colour... but that's another thread. Hi from applejack Member since 2001

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