What You Hate Most about Your Mini???
#1501
08-18-2018, 07:41 AM
#1503
09-18-2018, 06:46 PM
1st Gear
After 9 months of ownership, I can pretty equivocally say “everything”. I have never hated a vehicle as much as I hate my 2011 R56 Justa. Every time I get over the last repair, and think “Ok now I can just drive it for a bit”, something else breaks. Every time I decide to do a repair on it (I do almost all of my own maintenance, on all of my vehicles) it fights me every step of the way. It is horribly over-engineered, and not in a good way. In the way that makes you wonder if they hire directly from an asylum, and if they employ midgets in the factory, just to connect the lighting harnesses and the stupid brake pad sensor pigtails.
As far as specific hatred:
1. I hate the oil consumption. I should not have to pay attention to the oil level that closely on anything made after 1990.
2. I loathe the dipstick. I couldn’t read the stock one for anything, so I bought the $70 (FOR A FREAKIN DIPSTICK!!) Cravenspeed “solution”. It isn’t much better. The issue is that the dipstick tube design is hot garbage, not the actual stick.
3. The climate controls. For the love of all that is holy, WHY does the temperature adjust in 2 degree increments? I’m most comfortable at 69 or 71, but those aren’t freakin options. I blame the metric system. Something something 9/5 + 32...
4. Parts. It sucks to find replacements, and when you do, they are at ECS. So you’re never getting your order.
5. My dealership sucks.
6. The lack of meaningful gauges. A speedo, a tach, and a bunch of idiot lights and a crappy computer mode do not an informed driver make. I should be able to at least see engine temp and oil pressure. Especially when you can’t design an engine that doesn’t burn a crap ton of oil.
7. The sunroof. That’s been beaten to death.
8. The fact that I can’t make sport mode the default mode. Throttle response is crap in normal mode. I think I’ve stalled in traffic when I’m in normal mode. Let me have sport mode unless I say otherwise.
9. The tail light housings. Just use a freakin plug like every other car company. Your conductor maze backplane doesn’t work worth a crap, it melts itself, and then I’m supposed to go spend $400 on a new housing, because you couldn’t be bothered to use a normal solution to the everyday problem of “power needs to get to the bulb”. Then the car says there is a light out, but doesn’t know which one.
10. That the car is described in Internet forums as “quirky”. I’ve since realized that “quirky” is Internet code for “it’s a giant steaming pile of doo”.
Thats all I’m listing here, but if I had it to do over, I would have bought literally any other car on the planet. Yaris, Prius, Lada and Dacia included. My insurance agent says I can’t light it on fire. Apparently since I asked him, it’s collusion or conspiracy. Don’t remember which...
Hoping this post doesn’t get me banned. I need this forum for repair suggestions at 2am when I can’t figure out how to fix whatever I happen to be repairing in that particular night.
As far as specific hatred:
1. I hate the oil consumption. I should not have to pay attention to the oil level that closely on anything made after 1990.
2. I loathe the dipstick. I couldn’t read the stock one for anything, so I bought the $70 (FOR A FREAKIN DIPSTICK!!) Cravenspeed “solution”. It isn’t much better. The issue is that the dipstick tube design is hot garbage, not the actual stick.
3. The climate controls. For the love of all that is holy, WHY does the temperature adjust in 2 degree increments? I’m most comfortable at 69 or 71, but those aren’t freakin options. I blame the metric system. Something something 9/5 + 32...
4. Parts. It sucks to find replacements, and when you do, they are at ECS. So you’re never getting your order.
5. My dealership sucks.
6. The lack of meaningful gauges. A speedo, a tach, and a bunch of idiot lights and a crappy computer mode do not an informed driver make. I should be able to at least see engine temp and oil pressure. Especially when you can’t design an engine that doesn’t burn a crap ton of oil.
7. The sunroof. That’s been beaten to death.
8. The fact that I can’t make sport mode the default mode. Throttle response is crap in normal mode. I think I’ve stalled in traffic when I’m in normal mode. Let me have sport mode unless I say otherwise.
9. The tail light housings. Just use a freakin plug like every other car company. Your conductor maze backplane doesn’t work worth a crap, it melts itself, and then I’m supposed to go spend $400 on a new housing, because you couldn’t be bothered to use a normal solution to the everyday problem of “power needs to get to the bulb”. Then the car says there is a light out, but doesn’t know which one.
10. That the car is described in Internet forums as “quirky”. I’ve since realized that “quirky” is Internet code for “it’s a giant steaming pile of doo”.
Thats all I’m listing here, but if I had it to do over, I would have bought literally any other car on the planet. Yaris, Prius, Lada and Dacia included. My insurance agent says I can’t light it on fire. Apparently since I asked him, it’s collusion or conspiracy. Don’t remember which...
Hoping this post doesn’t get me banned. I need this forum for repair suggestions at 2am when I can’t figure out how to fix whatever I happen to be repairing in that particular night.
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#1504
09-18-2018, 07:28 PM
After 9 months of ownership, I can pretty equivocally say “everything”. I have never hated a vehicle as much as I hate my 2011 R56 Justa. Every time I get over the last repair, and think “Ok now I can just drive it for a bit”, something else breaks. Every time I decide to do a repair on it (I do almost all of my own maintenance, on all of my vehicles) it fights me every step of the way. It is horribly over-engineered, and not in a good way. In the way that makes you wonder if they hire directly from an asylum, and if they employ midgets in the factory, just to connect the lighting harnesses and the stupid brake pad sensor pigtails.
As far as specific hatred:
1. I hate the oil consumption. I should not have to pay attention to the oil level that closely on anything made after 1990.
2. I loathe the dipstick. I couldn’t read the stock one for anything, so I bought the $70 (FOR A FREAKIN DIPSTICK!!) Cravenspeed “solution”. It isn’t much better. The issue is that the dipstick tube design is hot garbage, not the actual stick.
3. The climate controls. For the love of all that is holy, WHY does the temperature adjust in 2 degree increments? I’m most comfortable at 69 or 71, but those aren’t freakin options. I blame the metric system. Something something 9/5 + 32...
4. Parts. It sucks to find replacements, and when you do, they are at ECS. So you’re never getting your order.
5. My dealership sucks.
6. The lack of meaningful gauges. A speedo, a tach, and a bunch of idiot lights and a crappy computer mode do not an informed driver make. I should be able to at least see engine temp and oil pressure. Especially when you can’t design an engine that doesn’t burn a crap ton of oil.
7. The sunroof. That’s been beaten to death.
8. The fact that I can’t make sport mode the default mode. Throttle response is crap in normal mode. I think I’ve stalled in traffic when I’m in normal mode. Let me have sport mode unless I say otherwise.
9. The tail light housings. Just use a freakin plug like every other car company. Your conductor maze backplane doesn’t work worth a crap, it melts itself, and then I’m supposed to go spend $400 on a new housing, because you couldn’t be bothered to use a normal solution to the everyday problem of “power needs to get to the bulb”. Then the car says there is a light out, but doesn’t know which one.
10. That the car is described in Internet forums as “quirky”. I’ve since realized that “quirky” is Internet code for “it’s a giant steaming pile of doo”.
Thats all I’m listing here, but if I had it to do over, I would have bought literally any other car on the planet. Yaris, Prius, Lada and Dacia included. My insurance agent says I can’t light it on fire. Apparently since I asked him, it’s collusion or conspiracy. Don’t remember which...
Hoping this post doesn’t get me banned. I need this forum for repair suggestions at 2am when I can’t figure out how to fix whatever I happen to be repairing in that particular night.
As far as specific hatred:
1. I hate the oil consumption. I should not have to pay attention to the oil level that closely on anything made after 1990.
2. I loathe the dipstick. I couldn’t read the stock one for anything, so I bought the $70 (FOR A FREAKIN DIPSTICK!!) Cravenspeed “solution”. It isn’t much better. The issue is that the dipstick tube design is hot garbage, not the actual stick.
3. The climate controls. For the love of all that is holy, WHY does the temperature adjust in 2 degree increments? I’m most comfortable at 69 or 71, but those aren’t freakin options. I blame the metric system. Something something 9/5 + 32...
4. Parts. It sucks to find replacements, and when you do, they are at ECS. So you’re never getting your order.
5. My dealership sucks.
6. The lack of meaningful gauges. A speedo, a tach, and a bunch of idiot lights and a crappy computer mode do not an informed driver make. I should be able to at least see engine temp and oil pressure. Especially when you can’t design an engine that doesn’t burn a crap ton of oil.
7. The sunroof. That’s been beaten to death.
8. The fact that I can’t make sport mode the default mode. Throttle response is crap in normal mode. I think I’ve stalled in traffic when I’m in normal mode. Let me have sport mode unless I say otherwise.
9. The tail light housings. Just use a freakin plug like every other car company. Your conductor maze backplane doesn’t work worth a crap, it melts itself, and then I’m supposed to go spend $400 on a new housing, because you couldn’t be bothered to use a normal solution to the everyday problem of “power needs to get to the bulb”. Then the car says there is a light out, but doesn’t know which one.
10. That the car is described in Internet forums as “quirky”. I’ve since realized that “quirky” is Internet code for “it’s a giant steaming pile of doo”.
Thats all I’m listing here, but if I had it to do over, I would have bought literally any other car on the planet. Yaris, Prius, Lada and Dacia included. My insurance agent says I can’t light it on fire. Apparently since I asked him, it’s collusion or conspiracy. Don’t remember which...
Hoping this post doesn’t get me banned. I need this forum for repair suggestions at 2am when I can’t figure out how to fix whatever I happen to be repairing in that particular night.
#1505
09-19-2018, 05:18 AM
Platinum Sponsor
After 9 months of ownership, I can pretty equivocally say “everything”. I have never hated a vehicle as much as I hate my 2011 R56 Justa. Every time I get over the last repair, and think “Ok now I can just drive it for a bit”, something else breaks. Every time I decide to do a repair on it (I do almost all of my own maintenance, on all of my vehicles) it fights me every step of the way. It is horribly over-engineered, and not in a good way. In the way that makes you wonder if they hire directly from an asylum, and if they employ midgets in the factory, just to connect the lighting harnesses and the stupid brake pad sensor pigtails.
As far as specific hatred:
1. I hate the oil consumption. I should not have to pay attention to the oil level that closely on anything made after 1990.
2. I loathe the dipstick. I couldn’t read the stock one for anything, so I bought the $70 (FOR A FREAKIN DIPSTICK!!) Cravenspeed “solution”. It isn’t much better. The issue is that the dipstick tube design is hot garbage, not the actual stick.
3. The climate controls. For the love of all that is holy, WHY does the temperature adjust in 2 degree increments? I’m most comfortable at 69 or 71, but those aren’t freakin options. I blame the metric system. Something something 9/5 + 32...
4. Parts. It sucks to find replacements, and when you do, they are at ECS. So you’re never getting your order.
5. My dealership sucks.
6. The lack of meaningful gauges. A speedo, a tach, and a bunch of idiot lights and a crappy computer mode do not an informed driver make. I should be able to at least see engine temp and oil pressure. Especially when you can’t design an engine that doesn’t burn a crap ton of oil.
7. The sunroof. That’s been beaten to death.
8. The fact that I can’t make sport mode the default mode. Throttle response is crap in normal mode. I think I’ve stalled in traffic when I’m in normal mode. Let me have sport mode unless I say otherwise.
9. The tail light housings. Just use a freakin plug like every other car company. Your conductor maze backplane doesn’t work worth a crap, it melts itself, and then I’m supposed to go spend $400 on a new housing, because you couldn’t be bothered to use a normal solution to the everyday problem of “power needs to get to the bulb”. Then the car says there is a light out, but doesn’t know which one.
10. That the car is described in Internet forums as “quirky”. I’ve since realized that “quirky” is Internet code for “it’s a giant steaming pile of doo”.
Thats all I’m listing here, but if I had it to do over, I would have bought literally any other car on the planet. Yaris, Prius, Lada and Dacia included. My insurance agent says I can’t light it on fire. Apparently since I asked him, it’s collusion or conspiracy. Don’t remember which...
Hoping this post doesn’t get me banned. I need this forum for repair suggestions at 2am when I can’t figure out how to fix whatever I happen to be repairing in that particular night.
As far as specific hatred:
1. I hate the oil consumption. I should not have to pay attention to the oil level that closely on anything made after 1990.
2. I loathe the dipstick. I couldn’t read the stock one for anything, so I bought the $70 (FOR A FREAKIN DIPSTICK!!) Cravenspeed “solution”. It isn’t much better. The issue is that the dipstick tube design is hot garbage, not the actual stick.
3. The climate controls. For the love of all that is holy, WHY does the temperature adjust in 2 degree increments? I’m most comfortable at 69 or 71, but those aren’t freakin options. I blame the metric system. Something something 9/5 + 32...
4. Parts. It sucks to find replacements, and when you do, they are at ECS. So you’re never getting your order.
5. My dealership sucks.
6. The lack of meaningful gauges. A speedo, a tach, and a bunch of idiot lights and a crappy computer mode do not an informed driver make. I should be able to at least see engine temp and oil pressure. Especially when you can’t design an engine that doesn’t burn a crap ton of oil.
7. The sunroof. That’s been beaten to death.
8. The fact that I can’t make sport mode the default mode. Throttle response is crap in normal mode. I think I’ve stalled in traffic when I’m in normal mode. Let me have sport mode unless I say otherwise.
9. The tail light housings. Just use a freakin plug like every other car company. Your conductor maze backplane doesn’t work worth a crap, it melts itself, and then I’m supposed to go spend $400 on a new housing, because you couldn’t be bothered to use a normal solution to the everyday problem of “power needs to get to the bulb”. Then the car says there is a light out, but doesn’t know which one.
10. That the car is described in Internet forums as “quirky”. I’ve since realized that “quirky” is Internet code for “it’s a giant steaming pile of doo”.
Thats all I’m listing here, but if I had it to do over, I would have bought literally any other car on the planet. Yaris, Prius, Lada and Dacia included. My insurance agent says I can’t light it on fire. Apparently since I asked him, it’s collusion or conspiracy. Don’t remember which...
Hoping this post doesn’t get me banned. I need this forum for repair suggestions at 2am when I can’t figure out how to fix whatever I happen to be repairing in that particular night.
I can help with that one, " 4. Parts. It sucks to find replacements, and when you do, they are at ECS. So you’re never getting your order. " shoot me a PM and I will do all I can to make sure you get them. I was just like everyone else before I was at ECS, just a shady tree mechanic trying to find parts that I could not find anywhere.
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#1507
09-19-2018, 06:42 AM
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Customer Service Hours: 8am-8pm EST|Sales Team Hours: 8am-11pm | SAT 10am-7pm 800.924.5172
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Milltek | Genuine MINI | Forge Motorsport | NM Engineering | ECS Performance | M7 Speed
Customer Service Hours: 8am-8pm EST|Sales Team Hours: 8am-11pm | SAT 10am-7pm 800.924.5172
#1510
09-19-2018, 02:23 PM
After 9 months of ownership, I can pretty equivocally say “everything”. I have never hated a vehicle as much as I hate my 2011 R56 Justa. Every time I get over the last repair, and think “Ok now I can just drive it for a bit”, something else breaks. Every time I decide to do a repair on it (I do almost all of my own maintenance, on all of my vehicles) it fights me every step of the way. It is horribly over-engineered, and not in a good way. In the way that makes you wonder if they hire directly from an asylum, and if they employ midgets in the factory, just to connect the lighting harnesses and the stupid brake pad sensor pigtails.
As far as specific hatred:
1. I hate the oil consumption. I should not have to pay attention to the oil level that closely on anything made after 1990.
2. I loathe the dipstick. I couldn’t read the stock one for anything, so I bought the $70 (FOR A FREAKIN DIPSTICK!!) Cravenspeed “solution”. It isn’t much better. The issue is that the dipstick tube design is hot garbage, not the actual stick.
3. The climate controls. For the love of all that is holy, WHY does the temperature adjust in 2 degree increments? I’m most comfortable at 69 or 71, but those aren’t freakin options. I blame the metric system. Something something 9/5 + 32...
4. Parts. It sucks to find replacements, and when you do, they are at ECS. So you’re never getting your order.
5. My dealership sucks.
6. The lack of meaningful gauges. A speedo, a tach, and a bunch of idiot lights and a crappy computer mode do not an informed driver make. I should be able to at least see engine temp and oil pressure. Especially when you can’t design an engine that doesn’t burn a crap ton of oil.
7. The sunroof. That’s been beaten to death.
8. The fact that I can’t make sport mode the default mode. Throttle response is crap in normal mode. I think I’ve stalled in traffic when I’m in normal mode. Let me have sport mode unless I say otherwise.
9. The tail light housings. Just use a freakin plug like every other car company. Your conductor maze backplane doesn’t work worth a crap, it melts itself, and then I’m supposed to go spend $400 on a new housing, because you couldn’t be bothered to use a normal solution to the everyday problem of “power needs to get to the bulb”. Then the car says there is a light out, but doesn’t know which one.
10. That the car is described in Internet forums as “quirky”. I’ve since realized that “quirky” is Internet code for “it’s a giant steaming pile of doo”.
Thats all I’m listing here, but if I had it to do over, I would have bought literally any other car on the planet. Yaris, Prius, Lada and Dacia included. My insurance agent says I can’t light it on fire. Apparently since I asked him, it’s collusion or conspiracy. Don’t remember which...
Hoping this post doesn’t get me banned. I need this forum for repair suggestions at 2am when I can’t figure out how to fix whatever I happen to be repairing in that particular night.
As far as specific hatred:
1. I hate the oil consumption. I should not have to pay attention to the oil level that closely on anything made after 1990.
2. I loathe the dipstick. I couldn’t read the stock one for anything, so I bought the $70 (FOR A FREAKIN DIPSTICK!!) Cravenspeed “solution”. It isn’t much better. The issue is that the dipstick tube design is hot garbage, not the actual stick.
3. The climate controls. For the love of all that is holy, WHY does the temperature adjust in 2 degree increments? I’m most comfortable at 69 or 71, but those aren’t freakin options. I blame the metric system. Something something 9/5 + 32...
4. Parts. It sucks to find replacements, and when you do, they are at ECS. So you’re never getting your order.
5. My dealership sucks.
6. The lack of meaningful gauges. A speedo, a tach, and a bunch of idiot lights and a crappy computer mode do not an informed driver make. I should be able to at least see engine temp and oil pressure. Especially when you can’t design an engine that doesn’t burn a crap ton of oil.
7. The sunroof. That’s been beaten to death.
8. The fact that I can’t make sport mode the default mode. Throttle response is crap in normal mode. I think I’ve stalled in traffic when I’m in normal mode. Let me have sport mode unless I say otherwise.
9. The tail light housings. Just use a freakin plug like every other car company. Your conductor maze backplane doesn’t work worth a crap, it melts itself, and then I’m supposed to go spend $400 on a new housing, because you couldn’t be bothered to use a normal solution to the everyday problem of “power needs to get to the bulb”. Then the car says there is a light out, but doesn’t know which one.
10. That the car is described in Internet forums as “quirky”. I’ve since realized that “quirky” is Internet code for “it’s a giant steaming pile of doo”.
Thats all I’m listing here, but if I had it to do over, I would have bought literally any other car on the planet. Yaris, Prius, Lada and Dacia included. My insurance agent says I can’t light it on fire. Apparently since I asked him, it’s collusion or conspiracy. Don’t remember which...
Hoping this post doesn’t get me banned. I need this forum for repair suggestions at 2am when I can’t figure out how to fix whatever I happen to be repairing in that particular night.
Oh, and I hate how long my F56 is. I wish it was the same size as the 2nd and 1st generation Minis
#1511
09-21-2018, 02:34 PM
#1512
10-17-2018, 02:56 PM
Seat belts
I hate the seatbelts. They always get stuck inbetween the seat and the door and then I have to crack open the door in order to get the seatbelt on.
I also would not get the sunroof again. Too many squeaks and rattles and it gets sooo hot inside the car in the summer.
Don't get me wrong, I would buy another MINI in a heartbeat!!!!
I also would not get the sunroof again. Too many squeaks and rattles and it gets sooo hot inside the car in the summer.
Don't get me wrong, I would buy another MINI in a heartbeat!!!!
#1513
10-20-2018, 11:07 AM
OVERDRIVE
So I really don't hate it, but after a lot of years of driving I find that I have curbed these wheels more on this car than all my other cars combined. Don't really understand it, unless it is just related to getting older. I've had low slung cars like Nissan ZX or BMW Z4. Maybe I need to invent rubber wheels or go back to a bicycle.
btw - Our F55, I haven't had an issue, nor the R60 , just the F56.
btw - Our F55, I haven't had an issue, nor the R60 , just the F56.
#1514
10-22-2018, 09:48 AM
Run flats
So I really don't hate it, but after a lot of years of driving I find that I have curbed these wheels more on this car than all my other cars combined. Don't really understand it, unless it is just related to getting older. I've had low slung cars like Nissan ZX or BMW Z4. Maybe I need to invent rubber wheels or go back to a bicycle.
btw - Our F55, I haven't had an issue, nor the R60 , just the F56.
btw - Our F55, I haven't had an issue, nor the R60 , just the F56.
#1515
10-22-2018, 10:01 AM
4th Gear
Since 2013, I've ruined at least 3 run-flat tires and one rim (another rim is slightly bent, but not enough to need replacing). Plus, I had enough of the noise & harsh ride of the run-flats, so I finally replaced them with Cooper Zeon PS3-G1 non-run-flats. Handling is only slightly less sharp, and they're very quiet and a lot more pothole-resistant (although I wouldn't push my luck!).
#1516
11-28-2018, 03:36 PM
#1517
11-28-2018, 03:54 PM
#1518
11-28-2018, 04:12 PM
4th Gear
2009 mini clubman owned less than two weeks, I hate that I didn't get one sooner 😎
I get the feeling from reading other posts that in may have a different opinion in a few months LOL. I did just buy another clubby with a blown engine. It's got more options then mine so if I can't fix the motor i will be doing a swap with the added options.
I get the feeling from reading other posts that in may have a different opinion in a few months LOL. I did just buy another clubby with a blown engine. It's got more options then mine so if I can't fix the motor i will be doing a swap with the added options.
#1521
01-23-2019, 07:30 PM
#1522
01-23-2019, 08:14 PM
OVERDRIVE
Vinyl is a simple cure. Mine was black, then red, then purple and now brushed metal.
#1523
01-24-2019, 08:06 AM
Driving #211 today, Splashing through the rain puddles and beaming through fog. Wild wet weather here in South central PA.
I running the Continental ContiProContact SSR Grand Touring All-Season (Run Flats) I think they are some of the best tires Continental has ever made. Quite, Grippy, and great wear.
Motor ON!
I running the Continental ContiProContact SSR Grand Touring All-Season (Run Flats) I think they are some of the best tires Continental has ever made. Quite, Grippy, and great wear.
Motor ON!
Last edited by JABowders; 01-24-2019 at 08:14 AM.
