Category: MINI R55, R56, R57, R58, R59, R60 & R61 Forum

Some things have already been tried and again and again astonished… When I demand eu6n oil and oil filter change,I can actually assume that I can drive into my little one and cheerfully from then on… Oil lamp glows after the change.But only when the engine is warm. Long back and forth…a master workshop would have to know how it should go by itself.. I once removed the oil filter cover… look there…the spring and the black plastic pin are missing. Workshop meant,there was nothing…even in the filter…I bought a new lid at BMW,with a wide recording in the lid..also that didn’t help anything.. Oil lamp lights… Filter is original from BMW/ Mini. Now I will get a lid again with pin and spring from the scrap metal…times see how I get it assembled..and that then it will run again..naja with a little language difficulties from the junk yard dealer I hope that we could really communicate… Pictures- from above: 1-Filter case inside 2-filter case I found it before the BMW filter with a new filter-cap

Hi guys, I want to get a Mini Cooper S as a fun mobile and need your experience. I already have a—> Data: Mini Cooper S R53; BJ 08/2005; 170PS compressor engine; 73000km; 1st hand; full checkbook for 500€ No dealer or in customer inquiries, but from one person ü40 beforehand, please don’t start discussions with Turbo consumes less and such things. I know what I want, and that’s a compressor and I don’t care about the consumption of the fun factor. 1. what do you think of the offer 2. what should I pay attention to with this model from the end of 2005 3. how do the service intervals look like? All how much km of oil and toothed belts…? I would be happy about quick answers/experiences so that I can strike. Greetings

Hello together, I have a general question. Is it possible to upgrade a turbocharger for engines without a turbo, like mine e.g. (n12b14a)? If so, what would all this look like? I have already inquired and looked for on YouTube, but can unfortunately only find videos where turbochargers are upgraded or replaced, but still no information about whether a turbo conversion is possible with each engine. Would I be very pleased about your help.

Hello together, I’m new here and hope someone can help me. The following problem, I got a used Mini Cooper R50, EZ 02/2004 on the weekend. Since yesterday unfortunately the problem, which starts already after a short time the ASC light and a short moment later the engine control light. To this end, it throttles down immediately and I can hardly accelerate. In addition, it jerks during the ride, like a tractor or so. Also the idle run is very restless. I know this error probably also existed before the purchase. Therefore, the spark plugs, the ignition cables and the ignition coil were renewed. It probably went a few days well but now again the same error. I had it read out yesterday directly in a workshop. It only meant that this error is frequent and often the cause difficult to find. In the worst case the head seal should be broken. I was then in another workshop and the thought of head seal it can not be, then there are other error messages. I should have other candles and a different ignition coil build up. In the worst case, I don’t know very much about it and I don’t have a lot of trouble.

Hello dear mini-friends, I’m actually from the BMW warehouse, but now I’m looking for a mini for my wife. She really wants a little city flicker and nothing else 😉 He shouldn’t be too lame, he has to have ESP and automatic and can cost 6-7k. Sweetspot would be the Cooper S R56, but it gets tight with the coal. So, more like the Cooper R56 with 120hp. When was ESP series in the R56? Can you buy something like that?https://suche.mobile.de/…/details.html?…You don’t hear so much good about the engines now (control chain/spanner). Is this really so acute and there are models that are less affected? Is a Cooper S R53 (170hp) more durable? Are there any further tips on what I should pay attention to? Thank you, Andi

Hello, at the moment I drive my Mini Cooper D, 111 HP, with 7,2ltr. Now I am thinking of buying the Cooper S. I heard the two should be almost the same from consumption. Can someone from experience tell me how much the Cooper S consumes? My mini dealer said he would also drive one and has a consumption of 6-7ltr. Can hardly believe that. I mostly drive city and short distances.

Moin! I’m so desperate. The last 3 – 4 times the TÜV sent me to the workshop because the engine loses an excessive amount of oil. I have to admit that I’m still blue-eyed directly at BMW, and more about it. The TÜV’ler is always more like this: “So that won’t be a big problem. A seal or something, once, and then you probably have years of rest.” In the BMW workshop, for example, it runs like this: “We have it, it’s the oil tub gasket, the “Now we have it, it’s the engine cover (or similar? sorry, know me too little). Is a bit more elaborate, but then you have rest” Done, 1 day after that the clutch mysteriously is completely broken. So again workshop “By the way, your engine loses oil. That’s definitely the oil tank that needs new.” I: “Did you just make a new one last week?” – “Oh, then that’s just rest oil” De facto they have been repairing themselves since big b 8 years rich in the oil problem. However, 2 visits to free workshops were also similar pan. Before I become a general skeptic towards workshops, I think that’s wrong – would I need advice. How do you do that most cleverly? Do I simply blindly test other free workshops? Does someone possibly have a trusting tip for minis in Hamburg? Or does someone have an approach to the oil problem, or how do I deal with the workshop more precisely? Thank you already.

Hello together, I have the problem with my Mini Cooper SD R56 (built in 2013 with approx.137,000KM) the problem that he does not accept gas, only if I walk from the gas several times and press again. Was already twice at my BMW workshop, these have read out the error memory but could not find out, then the air filter was changed, because this was supposed to be the cause. After nothing could be determined I tried my luck in a free workshop. r said it was on the incandescent control unit as well as the incandescent plugs, of course everything was changed the same way. After the problem still occurred and I was again in the free workshop, the DPF was said to be full (due to the defective incandescent control unit and the incandescent plugs). This was then also changed. Now the problem is still there, was again in the free workshop which could then also not detect anything. The problem usually occurs when starting or if I after switching up is quite undertoury and wants to speed up, then also gladly in connection with jerking the engine. If I quite rightly drive a lot of gas it works mostly and it then starts without problems. Maybe someone already had a similar problem or an idea what it could be. With kind regards

Hello together, I’m new here in the forum. I hope I ask my question here in the correct “department” of the forum. I have seen that someone has already installed such a “Chinaradio” on his mini, but unfortunately I haven’t found it. I have installed a new Android radio in my R 56 Mini Cooper S year 2011. It all works, only that I don’t receive any radio stations and it just rushes. The installation instructions were unfortunately not sent along and the Suppo rtabteilung of the company now ignores me after a one-week to and fro written haha. I found out that the minis apparently have a signal amplifier or something in the kind on the antenna on the roof and that this is supplied by the original radio directly with power and that this the aftermarketradios probably does not do and therefore the reception is so miserable. However, one can counteract this with an installation of a phantom feed adapter. n Radios, however, comes directly out of the antenna plug still such a blue cable with and looks actually exactly like with the above-mentioned adapters (but with them it should be connected to the current). However, with mine this has no such intermediate piece as with the adapters, which you can buy otherwise. So I did not connect this blue cable, because apparently the radio can break, if there suddenly current flows from the antenna into the radio. (The Phantoms Feedera dapter should apparently avoid that current flows to the radio but only to the antenna) I have attached an image on which you can see the cable well. (the blue one, which comes directly from the plug of the antenna.) On the second picture no. 27 (I don’t know what Auto ANT should stand for or where you should connect it) I don’t know if someone knows about it or has already installed something like that, but I would be really happy if someone could help me. I’m just buying a phantom feed adapter, because I’m sure I’m not destroying my radio Thank you for your answers.

Ahoi value mini-community, after 12 years I decided to hang my Audi TT from 1999 and buy me a Mini Cooper S Clubman from 2008, 1Hd automatic with 75TKM. The inspection is still pending, so I would look forward to tips on what to pay special attention to. Are there special weaknesses in the model? Are there usual pending repairs in the mileage, which may be unusually expensive compared to my Audi? Thank you for your help!