G'Day everybody,

recently purchased an '05 cooper S. Curious about local service locations.
Anyone have a good source for shop manuals? How does the Mini do in winter? I need to get myself to the ski slopes periodically. Looking forward to sharing info, experiences.

 

Welcome to NAM
Post some pics of your new to you baby. I like the Bentley 05-06 manual. They do fine with good all season winter tires.

 

Welcome! Don't know any shops in Tucson but if you can't find anyone there's a good one on Tempe (Eurotechs).

A bunch of us Valley MINIs are doing a run up to Jerome and Sedona on January 7th in case you are interested.

 

great shop at 2530 e fort lowell blvd ( independent bmw) which repairs bmw and mini. excellent service and honest. when my mini arrived from florida i noticed one of the lug nuts were missing ( the car had the wheels and tires replaced before shipping) called them -they said come over and with no waiting they installed a new lug nut- when i went to pay they said " no charge " .

 

Keep me in the loop, I think I would be interested in that.

 

Thanks for the tip DRNO.
I made a nice highway run from Tucson to Lordsburg last weekend. On the
return I took a detour through the Chiricahuas. Took Pinery canyon road (dirt)
found snow for some distance, Scared myself a little bit, but found that the Mini has the best traction control system of any car I've ever driven. Beautiful country there, had no camera that day, of course.

 

congrats on your purchase now post up some pics

 

Bought myself a digital camera today. Pictures to follow soon.

 

I purchased the r56 Bentley Service Manual from Amazon at a very good price. Might want to try there for the r53 manual.

 

I purchased an 03 MCS in Oct and the dealer sent me to Dearing Automotive on Ft Lowell. I will let you know how the car turns out when I get it back. They only use factory parts and my supercharger had to come from Europe.

 

Took Wolfgang through his first good set of twisties this evening. He is a monster in the corners. Closest I've come previously was the 03 Eclipse GT after I upgraded to 245/45/17 tires. Autocross
season runs throught the winter here in AZ. Looking forward to that.

 

Welcome!