let it sit at idle for a few mins, and check for oil leaks.

Why you ask, I went today with a friend to look at a used MINI. Thankful it was cold today, so we backed it out of the parking space, and let it run a while we walked around the outside and popped the hood.

Don't ask me why, hold habit, I looked under the car, BAM!

An oil puddle the size of my HAND on the ground, and I could see the oil dripping off the back side of the motor. Backed it up a few feet, and let it run, sure enough, a min later, oil puddle the size of my fist.

Shut her off, told the sales rep, he told us they had changed the oil when they got it, and I told him to check the O ring on the oil filter and call us when it's not leaking.

 

Great find.. Much better finding the leak now instead of after all the oil is gone and bad things happen to the engine.

I am sure CHILIMAC will be pleased you found it before they did!!

 

dang, that's horrible. nice find! it's amazing how some dealers can't do a simple thing as an oil change....

 

and thats why I'm happy to pay a MINI dealer $60 bucks for an oil change. By the way, not all BMW dealers are MINI dealers, keep that in mind.

 

yah, but the MINI's oil change is pretty straight forward...

 

Then why do more then a few go bad?

 

I don't see the correlation between paying $60 for an oil change and a job done correctly. Is the implication that spending a lot of money insures good service. I'd argue against that one all day long. In addition, it is rare occassion when I let someone, paid or not, to work on my racing vehicles, street cars, or trucks. Very few people provide acceptable standards of care, pair or not paid. I do my own vehicle maintenance.

 

Billie, I once enjoyed working on my own cars too. But this day and age, or should I say my age LOL, I'm more then happy to pay someone to work for me. Plus oil is nasty stuff, and the odor is growing old. The $60 at the dealer is not about getting a set standard of service, it's about having a MINI Dealer do the work and "if" they make a mistake I have someone to back them up. If I go to a private shop and they make the same mistake, it's going to cost me more in legal fee's to get them to fix it. I think of the $60 as Insurance. That said, I just ordered a intake kit for my MINI and look forward to installing it myself.

 

Dealer update, on the MINI I wanted to test drive.

I'm told that the oil pan was leaking.

Why would a car with only 7000 miles have a oil pan leak? If they removed it why? They are going to flatbed it to a MINI dealer for service.

Do you smell that?

 

driver probably tried going over something and bottomed out the oil pan?

 

update to the update, I went back to drive the car, was not the pan, but the oil fliter "O" Ring. I drove the car, drives out strong. The dealer was very open about the whole issue and thats a plus with car dealers any day of the week.

 

sounds good... i think.

hope they didn't touch any other part of the car then.