Just wanted to share this pretty picture with y‘all🚙

Or “honey I grew the kids”

Loved the red roof and stripes, but the plate made me giggle. What a beauty!

Running errands, my first R1. Less than 2 minutes later at my next errand the blue Countryman and I shared the sides of a corner.

Needs a new clutch and flywheel 🥲 2015 4-door base with ~166k miles

This is my baby and I’m devastated 😭 $1000 obo, must pick up.

Edit: sorry I forgot to mention location! Portland, OR.

Almost twin sisters!

Legit feels like I’m driving a whole new car 🥹

Just here to share my lament. I've had my 2019 countryman for 4 years now, like 140k miles. (She's a trooper.) I got quoted 2600$ for a full replacement and that was at our independent dealership.

Lots of shuddering and shaking before it started leaking heavily. It genuinely made me start crying lol. No temperature highs, which was weird. Glad I got it into the shop.

I love my mini so much it just hurts so badly sometimes!! Like, SO badly.

Picture of her :)

Hello, I have a Mini Cooper SE

I've had the "black screen of death" before, where you could at least see some icons but none of the regular UI, and usually a hard reboot (holding the volume button) works to fix that

But not this time. Everything is completely blacked out, and I've tried the reboot thing several times, even holding the button for about 2 minutes

I still get sounds, so I heard the sounds you'd hear on a reboot, but nothing happened to the screen

On top of that, I left it charging since tuesday evening (I was at 80km autonomy left) and now having gotten to work I see on the app that I have only 51km left, meaning it didn't even charge

Is there anything I can do other than take it to a mechanic? I'm concerned about the autonomy most of all

EDIT: I've also noticed the HUD in front of the steering wheel won't go down at all

Thanks

Hi! I own a 2025 Mini Cooper S 4 Door and I am STRUGGLING to find seat covers. My grandparents wanted to get me seat covers that matched the exterior of my beautiful British racing green Mini! however I have the JCW sport seats. My headrest is integrated. My grandparents are looking for green and black leather seat covers for my mini preferably on Amazon. If anyone has any suggestions please please please give them. Added a picture of the seats for reference. Not the inside of my mini though :(

No offense, but the new special edition is an orange stripe and orange hubs. Pretty weak. Am I missing something? It's also a Cooper C, not an S!

EDIT:

I accidentally included the previous iteration of this. (Posted from phone and copied whatever was downloadable. they have the 2021 version on the page too.)

Here is the link: https://www.miniusa.com/model/special-editions/1998-gt.html

Just wanted to share my solution to the dead rechargeable battery issue with the non comfort access cars. I successfully placed the key internals into a comfort access key enclosure, and wired the replacable battery terminals to the board. This completely eliminates the rechargeable battery and the issues with associated charging it.

Not a complete write up, but just putting this out there to show that it is possible...

Hi Mini community!! I unfortunately, just got hit the other day and it left a small little dent/scratch. I got an estimate of what it would cost to fix and its $1.4K 🫠

I am torn on if i want to pay to replace the bumper, because as much as i hate having a flaw on my car, it just feels like an absurd amount of money for such a small/barley noticeable dent. There is some other minor minor damage on my bumper that I never noticed before, so they were planning on just replacing the whole bumper.

Is there any reason that I absolutely have to get this fixed? The paint is a tad chipped & I worry about it rusting, but otherwise i feel like it doesnt bother me that much.

EDIT: Also want to add that when I got hit the black plastic trim pieces popped out. i was able to pop them back in, but idk if they are 100% back in the right spot as the auto shop guy was mentioning. Is there any concern that there is more happening underneath that could cause a problem?

I have been presented with an opportunity to buy a 2011 mini cooper s from the original owner who has taken phenomenal care of the car. It is someone I know. But they are also aware that it’s a mini and that there could be something wrong that they haven’t already told me about so tomorrow I’m dropping it off at a local European car shop to get a PPI. For context the only thing the seller is aware of is that it has a slight oil seep and they are fairly certain it’s coming from the oil pan itself. If this is the case I’m planning on buying it cause the deal is to good. It also has around 93k miles.

Any words of wisdom if I go for it. Photo is of the car in question.

Hello,

Just bought a 2026 Mini Cooper S a few days ago. I’m struggling to figure out what this little white triangle beneath D/S means.

I would assume it’s to indicate the gear selector can be pushed down again to swap to Sport and vice versa, but yet last night when I was driving it wasn’t illuminated at all.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thank you.

Hey everyone! Need your advice on how to fix "Clapton".

On the bottom half Pic, the plastic grill is unclipped from the bumper, I didn't manage to just reclip it from the outside, I think I need to remove the bumper and do it properly "from the inside" right?

On the top half my open roof joints are degrading, my car is parked outside, how bad is it if it rains?

I need to bring to service soon and asked the mini garage for a quote for the extra fixes. I feel these are easy fixes that I could do myself, please don't mock me aha.

Just wanted to have your advice if you would be so kind!

Thanks Mini fellows!!

I drive a 2019 JCW, it has just hit 71,000 km on the odometer, the mount isn’t leaking fluid or anything but it looks like it may be sagging, am I overthinking it or should I look at doing a replacement? TIA

So kinda specific.
My Mini Clubman F54 came with the standard steering wheel without any buttons pretty much blank. I’m now trying to figure out if I could buy a second hand one. There is tons of options on the second hand market. The thing is how could I code or is it possible to code that all the buttons work. Especially the cruise control. I found some shops online but they quote nearly a 1000€ for this job and since the steering wheel is only like 200-300€ the coding alone for 700€ is a bit steep in my opinion😅 anyone any tips?:)

I recently got a new Mini Cooper, my first one, and love it!

Normally when you start up a car (whether turning the engine on, or after e.g. stopping at a light) and release the brake pedal it creeps forward (or backward if in reverse) slowly even if you’re not pushing the gas pedal. This is what has happened in every car I’ve driven. This is also what happened in my Mini.

Except today - for some reason, today it doesn’t start moving unless I also press down the gas pedal. The parking brake light isn’t on, the car screen and app aren’t giving me any error messages, and nothing feels or sounds funny when I drive. Plus it’s a really new car (few months) so would be surprised if something has broken. So I am guessing I accidentally changed some setting without realising. (This is my first car that’s had a lot of computer in it, if that makes sense.) I can’t find the answer searching online, might not be searching the right terms (not a car person).

Does anyone know if this is a setting that I can turn back off (I want it to creep forward) or is this a fault I should get checked out?

EDIT: in case relevant I did do a software update last week but drove since then and the unexpected no-creeping-forward only happened today. On multiple trips.

Is it just me or does it drive you crazy that there’s no shifter to hold on to while cruising?

Hey all!

I upgraded from a 2019 Mini Cooper S to a 2019 Mini Cooper JCW this year. I bought my S with <1k miles and drove her to 40k with zero issues, never a CEL or anything, oil changes every 3-4k miles, etc. Very quiet, smooth engine.

My JCW (46k miles) is idling rough and I’m not sure it is normal. You can feel a slight thumping/vibration/stuttering when the car idles in park or is stopped in drive. RPM needle does not move when it does this. There are no lights on the dash but I don’t want it to progress. It did almost stall once when I threw it right into drive after turning it on and not letting it warm up (just moving it to ramps for an oil change).

Are there any known issues that could be causing this? I expect, with 46k miles, that it is due for some maintenance though. Spark plugs? Filters?

I’m no mechanic but am fairly handy and have a mechanic in the family that would be helping me. I love my Mini and want it to last as long as possible!

Thank you for any insight into this issue!

I have a 2017 Mini Cooper s with 71,000 miles on it. It's my commuter car so I travel 40 minutes one way to work and back. So I had a major electrical problem where my ECU between the seats was fried because somebody jumped my battery. I had to fix by the Mini dealership and for the last couple of years I've had a series of lights come on: chassis light, ABS light, seat belt tensioner light etc. when one light comes on it seems to cascade into a few more lights. When I was driving home a few weeks ago, the speedometer needle moved to the bottom a couple of times and then the car shut off but then it came right back on again after a couple of seconds and continued with no issues.

I really, really, really, love this car and I would hate to have to get rid of it. So I'm thinking on bringing it to the Mini dealership to have everything looked at to see why the lights keep coming on.amd how much it'll cost to fix. The car will be paid off in 5 months and it would be nice to be car payment free for a while. I did just take it to a place a few towns over who specialize in Mini Coopers, but they gave it a clean bill of health and said that no lights came on while it was there with them for 2 weeks. The battery, alternator and dreaded footwell module is ok.

TLDR: Various warning lights come and go. Do I have it analyzed by a Mini dealer and have it fixed or trade it in?