MOTOR-TALK

Category: Peugeot Forum

  • Remote Software Upgrade

    Hello, my question concerns the countryman, but I think it will be the same for all current minis, so I’ll write here. Can’t you install the Renote software upgrade directly in the car anymore? If I try this during the current upgrade I only get the hint in the display that I can start the upgrade via app. But for this you need wlan and since our wlan doesn’t reach the garage or the road that’s bad. I don’t have to go by car either. in the living room or in the garden to drive LG

  • Oil way too expensive?

    Hello, I was at ATU today and had 50€ in the hope of getting oil for my Mini Cooper. Then I first got some advice which oil I must take, he asked which car and even looked at the engine, all good and beautiful. When he had picked out the right oil I almost fainted, which wanted to have 30€ per liter. Mind you, I drive a mini with 116hp and not 911 with over 350hp. Now I have in the internal and Castrol 5W30 Longlife 4 oil found exactly what the Lord of ATU had shown me. Can I take it that way or is it a wrong one? http://www.ebay.de/itm/390595548495?…

  • New door from BWM workshop get and it is not 100% suitable

    Hello dear Mini friends, I got a new passenger door because of a shunting accident. When I was able to pick up the mini after the repair, I didn’t really see it! The door had a loose 1.5cm distance from the car. At the top of the door was also so 1cm from the escape from the car. The Procar Köln Nord BWM employee said this was so. A tolerance would always be there. It is never possible to get as in the origin… ??? And because the parts are manufactured in England and the Engl Well, I thought BMW Mini was a premium manufacturer… Is that really so? Yes, the door was then adjusted afterwards by the workshop and it doesn’t stand out any more, rather a little bit in and the savings measures could be balanced. The door presses the seal now very firmly in… 6 men were in the gray latzhosen. I also thanked the men after the setting but strangely, no reaction came… I h But I’m only 70 percent satisfied. The door will certainly sit down… Should I take it that way or what else can I really do? But how can I release the car for the customer with such a result? The expert didn’t see the damage as a loss because a new part is being installed. But if the new part of the car is not pushed or something like that, then it will look better and you’ve done your best, what can I say and do? If it’s a fake, don’t you believe me that it was done in a BMW contract workshop… did any of you have to have such an experience?

  • My Cooper D now gets the 3rd turbocharger

    BMW Leipzig informed me today that the broken disk had been repaired, but that I should still be allowed to keep my replacement vehicle ( Mini Cooper Clubman ) for 2 more days. It was found that the turbocharger lost massive oil and I could not be left on the road anymore. Must still drive 600 kilometers to home. The thing is leaking and it must be a new one, of course at the expense of the house. Super ! Daf The first one lasted at least 10 months and almost 70,000 kilometers. When a customer (car supplier ) reported to me a year ago that he had built crap on the parts for the turbocharger, I still had the hope that the loaders will end up in the Mercedes, because he did not know which vehicles they are installed in, I have now such a clue. Are the ones from the Mini not from Borg Warner, he said the name as the buyer for whom he supplied.

  • Motor damage Mini Cooper D 3000km after oil change

    Hello together, I would like to have an opinion about the following incident: On 12.02.2021 I started my mini, which was standing because of the prevailing cold since 09.02.2021 of the cold protected city house garage, quite normal. When I wanted to speed up after a few meters, I noticed that the car did not take the gas properly. Then the engine began to stutter, it went out and did not let itself go again. The breakdown service dragged the car into the workshop. later the workshop informed me that this was not the fault, but that the engine had a total damage. When the oil was drained, it was found that almost 2 liters of oil were missing and metal pieces would indicate that the engine was no longer ready for operation due to lack of lubrication. The car ran 103,435 km at this time. It was approved in August 2014. The last oil change was on 22.07.2020 at km 100,115 m 8. There were problems when entering into the service history. I had to drive 3 times to the workshop until the service appeared in the on-board computer. On the way back my oil lamp lit up. I drove back to the workshop, had it checked and then the oil lamp was off. The car is stocked and has entered all services in the on-board computer. The display of the oil level never had a deficit light up except with the above entry in the service history. There are no traces of oil in the car’s parking lot at home, not even in the car park. I have now applied for a certificate at Mini’s, but I haven’t heard anything yet.

  • MINI F5X, 2nd Facelift, 2021

    There is a 2nd facelift available,https://www.motoringfile.com/…/ Brexit and other uncertainties hold onto the current model a little longer. Technically, therefore, from Mildhybrid/48 V to PHEV there speculated. PS: The cause of the 2nd facelift instead of successor…https://www.motoringfile.com/…/

  • Registration Winter rims

    Hello, We wanted to have our 17 inch winter bikes registered. ABE is there, but must be registered anyway. Car brought to the TÜV. In the evening then picked up again and were not registered, as they would apparently with full suspension on the fender stripes. At home we then let him in completely and put in 2 persons. But there is still a good place in between. (see picture) What do you think about it? Mfg

  • Mini F56 Cold start noise

    Hello, I’m a little worried about my mother’s mini … it’s a Mini One f56 with 45000km. And now to the problem. When she starts with a cold engine the car makes extremely clacking, nagelene noises…as what would not have been properly tightened. Today we were allowed to pick up our mini then again from the mini car house … but they found nothing and meant the noise is quite normal. Funny only that before about 10000km there was no noise yet.. Has jeman d the same problem ?? MFG

  • Route planning Navigation

    Hello together, the retirement is a bit nice and all the more beautiful when you can enjoy it. When we were still part of the working population, my wife and I liked to do tours with their Mini Convertible – also over several days and weeks. We planned these tours in advance on the computer (BMW-Routes.com or myrouteapp.com) and took them as a .tar.gz file on a USB stick and could then save this in the car via the US interface and then dementsprec We bought a JCW convertible last year as a pensioner and wanted to do nice (pre-planned) tours through Europe. But unfortunately we had to find out that there is no USB plug in our mini and that the menu of the navigation system “Import route” is no longer available. Can someone help us how we get the route planning from the computer into the car?

  • Question about : Cylinder head gasket, valve cover gasket, oil tank gasket, control chain…

    Dear forum… We thought with a few people earlier about what the following repairs could cost in a proper, free workshop. Ggf has already experienced here. The assumed car is a Mini Cooper from 2014 with 100,000 km and the N16, 122 hp petrol engine, 6-speed manual transmission: 1) Exchange of the chain tensioner 2) Exchange of the entire chain with rails and tensioner… 3) Exchange of the valve cover seal 4) Exchange of the cylinder head seal 5) Exchange of the oil tank seal A buddy works at VW, the others only have their experience of some components and are also not motorists. I also have no idea. The workshop would have to create a calculation and thus want to mention only approximate values from the belly without guarantee: So we came from 1-5 to the following numbers: 1= 250 Euro 2= 1300 Euro 3= 100 Euro 4= 1300 Euro 5= 350 Euro with oil What do you think? On 100 Euro you can certainly not say it. But could these numbers fit about? I am happy about your E Thank you.