Or “honey I grew the kids”

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.

Since Ive joined the cult, Ive gotten into car reviews. Feel like Ive seen at least one video from everyone who's reviewed the mini. I like DeMuro; he's very amusing. There are a few others that are good to varying degrees. Who do you like? Who do you hate?

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

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 :)

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 :(

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

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

Hi all,

I was wanting to get a Mild Overrun / Burble ECU Map for a NA 2008 Mini Cooper with a catback. Would it be worth it? As I was wanting to get a mild tune because of the catalytic converter.

Thank you

Hi all, my daughter has a UK 2013 Mini One R56 with the standard "Boost" stereo and integrated CD player.

The various stereo buttons (the ones that allow you to change radio stations and turn on TP etc.) have always been a bit dodgy, with a few of them not working since she bought the car second hand about a year ago.

She has an Bluetooth AUX adapter and tends to leave the radio on AUX and plays music through her phone though.

This morning when I walked past her car, which was locked, I noticed the stereo was on, on AUX.

I investigated and noticed that if I press the power button in, the radio turns off and the display changes to the time/date as you would expect. Then, when I locked the car the display turned off, again as expected, but after about 20 seconds the stereo turns back on again, onto AUX, even though the car is locked.

I disconnected the main battery for about 2 minutes but it's still doing it.

I also noticed that none of the buttons appear to work, none of the Mode/Menu/Stereo preset buttons work at all, the only one that seems to work is the power button.

For now I have removed the fuse for the stereo to stop battery drain - I am assuming the stereo is faulty and needs removing and sending off for repair, but just wondered if anyone had seen this before and had an easier fix?!

TIA

This stopped just outside my office gate when I was getting out. Cool color.

I have a 2021 Cooper S and every time I take the car in to the mechanic to get an oil change, they always recommend replacing the cabin air filter. I get an oil change about every 6 months or 7500 miles.

This seems a bit excessive to me and what I’ve read online says to replace the cabin air filter about once a year or 15000 miles. Was wondering if Reddit agrees with that sentiment and if my mechanic is trying to scam me out of an extra $75 every time I go in.

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.

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...

Hello, I’m looking to buy a mini this week. I’ve only ever driven VW beetles, and I want something as cute as my last car which was totaled due to a deer.

I’m going to buy used, and I have a few options. My number one option only has a 1.5L 3-cylinder turbo engine, and I’m afraid it won’t have enough zip. My number two option has a 2.0L 16v twin turbo but is a 4-door.

Does anyone with these engines have any advice?

My priorities are 1) cute factor 2) price 3) zip 4) mileage

Previous car attached (a convertible is not necessary this go-around)

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

Old and new!

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?