Hi everyone! I recently picked up an F56 2015 Cooper S and I’m sooo happy to be back in a Mini. When I got home from buying it, I hit a speed bump a bit fast and heard a loud clunk from the front passenger side. :/ I was thinking suspension so I turned the wheel full right to see if there were any visual clues and found this fluid all over the subframe and inlet piping. It’s kinda yellow like synthetic oil but very thin so I thought it was the motor mount but it looks to be in decent shape to me. Has anyone had a similar leak in the same location and maybe know exactly how they fixed it? 😃




bonus points if anyone can ID this loose bolt i found sitting on the cowl too

 

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...-oil-leak.html

Possible oil pan? Can you drop the fabric belly pan and take a look?

Its not part of the cowl kit? https://www.ecstuning.com/Search/Sit...h/51717301013/

Its a security torx head, must have been from a repair? Its a short one, i checked all the bolts and dont see one that's common? I would start looking around the engine bay.

 

Alright so I pulled the trigger on the engine mounts and swapped them out. The clunk didn’t go away but these definitely needed to be replaced.




I replaced the lower control arms and the clunk went away. There’s some bad vibrations still so shock top mounts are next. I guess I should’ve done it all at once 🤷🏻