Hey guys and gals, my name is blake, im from Idaho.


One of my dream cars since I was a little kid was always a mini cooper. Well, im 21 now and I saved and saved and found what I thought at the time was a good deal.


The car is a 2003 mini cooper s. r53 in the dark silver.


When I went to get the car, it has 136k miles. I regrettably paid 8300 for the car.
The car was advertised with the following,
1. dinan intake
2. dinan exhaust
3. dinan sc pulley
4. racelands
5. avid 1 wheels


Car didn't have the dinan exhaust. infact it was just a muffler cut off.
The dinan intake was cut up.


Within a month of owning the car, it literally had to have these done because of stupid crap breaking.
1. rmw header
2. kw variant full coilovers.
3. new starter
4. new fuel pump
5. new fuel filter
6. new snoot boots (alta)
7. Detroit tuned bypass valve.
8. multilink g4 extreme
9. new sc belt
10. new door ( someone backed into me in a parking lot)
11. new window regulator
12. post facelift xenons
13. sunroof visor.
14. slight smoothing of the intake and exhaust ports.
Currently saving up for new airbox, exhaust, and the airtech intercooler, and possibly a rotrex or sprintex supercharger.

 

ill post pictures on my break since im on the work computer.

 

 

Welcome to NAM, Blake! Great looking R53! Sorry about your misfortunes with repairs so far, but if you ever need anything we have some great tech articles here and be sure to ask any questions that you may have. I am here to help. Enjoy!

 

definitely, I do however have a question on peoples opinion on the alta pully stop. that looks like a lower control arm. the p.o installed one, and I see it as not correctly able to tension. I feel like I should be buying a new tensioner.

 

Sorry it did not come with the extras, but it looks like you brought it back to life. Congrats.