What year MINI was it
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2010, with 101k miles, but doesn’t matter to me, they’re all complete junk!(I have many more words for it but I can’t share that on a public forum). I only drove it about 5k miles in 9 months and in that time this is what happened:
-1st week of ownership- thermostat housing cracked(looks like an artificial heart this thing is unnecessarily complicated and made of plastic!! Also water pipe that connects to it is plastic, $220 later it’s fixed)
-Couple months later(July 2019)- listening to the radio and the volume goes fulls blast and sounds like pure bass only, the amp blew out and it’s not a cheap fix. These are on the cars equipped with Harmon Kardon stereo “upgrade” but are known to fail.
-Constant but not always replicatable random misfire. Checking obd codes didn’t always confirm the same codes so I wasted money on plugs and coils($150). Didn’t fix it.
-Driving one day and the whole car just dies on the highway. Get to my friends who was only 5 minutes further on my 50 minute journey to his house. We scan codes and get the same misfire codes but this time all cylinders, random. Looking around online many people said high pressure fuel pump, I wasn’t covered under MINIs fuel pump “warranty” so had to buy one. Not cheap about $600.
The engine had burnt exhaust valves, bent and one valve was missing a chunk like a slice of pie missing from a full pie if that makes sense. Before anybody blames me for whatever reason, I use premium fuel, top up regularly(rarely go below half tank), check fluids and I honestly don’t beat my cars or drive them hard, I’m in my 30’s not some child!
I hope the company completely fails, goes under and never exists ever again, cars are complete junk!! Never buy and MINI and if you know somebody looking to buy one, well unless you hate them, tell them to walk away.
God gave me all the signs that day that I shouldn’t have bought it and we’ll I didn’t listen to Him and payed a hefty bill..
(Edited to say, just talking about it still infuriated me and my heart rate and blood pressure have skyrocketed!)
