Hey, it's better to put it towards those options than simply pay it because you were a MY2015 production. So consider it a freebie!

 

One of the (many) reasons I just can't do the F56. I can't live with not having a key lol. I remember balking when they made the R56 push start/stop with the slot, but it's still kind of like a key. Maybe I'm weird, but I like having to physically put the key somewhere. I have to draw the line there!

Hopefully one of these 2013's will pan out and the 'next generation' is tolerable.

 

My last two cars had keyless ignition, and I love it! It takes some getting used to, but I would hate to go back to a key! Respectfully, you're being silly, and you don't know what you're missing.

 

Ha, maybe so, but it's that combined with all the other 'little' changes on the F56 that add up to a 'big' NO and turns me off it. We've all got our preferences, but it just got to the point where I realised I was trying to force myself to like the F56 just to stay with MINI. And that IS silly. Anyway, R56 or bust I say!

 

Was at the dealer this week ($60 precautionary oil change & squeak suppression) and my MA said he was still trying to find the part number for the lid to the Storage Package. He had a lid and I tried it in the back of my MCS. It goes wall to wall for a flat floor. I think it has two pieces of hardware that would be part of a hinge, but you can likely ignore that w/o a problem.

 

You sound like me, when I VERY nearly pulled the trigger on the 2014 Mazda3. Did three test-drives, and the number of things I disliked and the number of compromises I'd have to make, because various things weren't to my liking, began to mount, until I came to my senses, and said, screw this car. I am so glad I did!

I went back to my original trajectory: Kia Forte5 SX Twin-scroll Turbo, MT, loaded. I would be driving that car now, but for the fact that Kia has yet to deliver to the Eastern Region a single one that has manual transmission and both packages. It's been 6 months that they've strung me along. Unfortunately for Kia, I test drove the F56, and loved it. I have one on order, and Kia lost a customer.

The F56 is about $6000 more than the Kia would have been, as I loaded it up, and I'll be sorry for missing the 10-way powered seats with memory settings, ventilated seats and heated steering wheel, but for what I'm "giving-up", I'm getting lots of other stuff instead. The Forte5 SX drove nicely, was quiet, and was well-built and was a much better overall package to the Mazda3, in my opinion (it's the American version of the Kia Pro_Cee'd GT). The F56 is just so "me" though, in every way. The ability to make a completely flat-floored cargo area (yes, I got the Storage Package) really swayed me back to MINI. I had a 2005 MC, and the staggered cargo floors was not a good thing. I will never consider a hatch w/o a flat cargo area again.

My only hesitation in my enthusiasm is that I hope that the F56's reliability won't be that far off what the Kia's will be. Finger's-crossed!!

 

On my order sheet, it's "493". Is that what he's trying "so hard" to find?

 

That's the package number right? Package numbers aren't part numbers.

The storage package adds dozens parts to the car. The lid is one part, and has a few pieces of hardware surrounding it to support the various positions, all of which would have their own parts number. It also adds the 12V adapter in the back, and some extra goodies up front.

 

51477298611 I see at realoem is that the part?

It looks like you would replace the side panels to get the whole package.

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts...88&hg=51&fg=65

 

51477298611 could be the part, altho I think the piece I tried in my MCS had part of a hinge attached to it -- I don't see in the picture.

Will send link and "51477298611" to my MA to see if that helps him.

 

My MA says that's the part. Maybe he's been too busy selling F56s.

Have asked for price and delivery.