Hi
I just bought one from online website and i have no idea what's to do.
What's with the 1 o ring and 2 nuts ? (i don't know what's it called in english)
Do i have to remove front bumper ?
My MCS is equip with jcw aerokit

Thank you !!!

 

Hello,

Looks like you have the Gen 2 MINI front grille badge, its the newer design JCW logo. Part # 51117232803

http://www.ecstuning.com/Search/SiteSearch/51117232803/



You will have to get behind the bumper grille to mount the little nuts with the washer. If I remember right the washer would go on the right side ( longer stud ) pointing forward, on the back side of the grille in order to hold it along with the stud nut. Then the other nut on the shorter side.

Can be mounted in the front grille like this location. Cooper S grille. Or that in the JCW Aero kit grille.





Here is a link to the grille mounted location for the JCW Kit.

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...placement.html

Thanks and hope that helps.

 

Why label a MCS with JCW badging?

 

i'm very appreciated ur help.
Just finish installing, look great.
in fact, i bought this from ECSTuning. think i made the right choice.
Thank you very much

 

Great.

Post up some pics.

 

msc?

 

Agreed, one of the cheesier things I've seen here. Nothing worse than a poser.
The saddest part is that anyone without a MINI won't care or even know what JCW is, and anyone with entry-level MINI knowledge would call this fraud a fraud in a split second.
embarrassing...

 

Oh hush. I think it's silly too, but I'm not going to say it straight up. That's just rude. And I wouldn't get a good laugh if I didn't occasionally see a Toyota with Chevy badges. =P

 

I also own a Ford SVT F-150 Lightning that is a 147 mph Supercharged pickup truck and on a Lightning forum a guy wanted to put Lightning badges on his regular F-150 pickup and pretend he owned a Lightning. He got hammered by all the Lightning owners telling him if he wanted a truck with Lightning badges on it to buy a Lightning. People that spent the money on a real Lightning didn't want him to go around getting beat by other trucks and then have them thinking how slow Lightnings were - he was hoping other trucks would be afraid to race him with Lightning badges on it.

Doesn't this make as much sense as owning a Justa and putting S badges on it?

 

LOL. I just came from the Scion FR-S crowd and it's amazing the number of people that rebadged their Scions with the Toyota logo.

 

Oh piffle. Remember the R50 had no factory JCW version, only JCW add-on parts. This guy has some of the JCW aero kit, so why not the badge? It's harmless.

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I dont pretend i have jcw car
I thought it looks great with jcw badge
That's all

 

Why cooper S bother to equip jcw aero kit anyway ?
Is that a fraud ?
Mini cooper one with little horse power shouldnt be called a MINI ?

 

I own a z4 with M aero package and e coupe with amg package. Should i take them off ?
Btw im not pretending i have m car, amg car, jcw car frankly

 

Exactly! The JCW Aero kit is available for any model, in the same way that BMW sells M Sport items for their cars. Audi has "Sport Line" items for any car, without "pretending" to be an S car, and Lexus sells F Sport add ons for their cars too. I say do what makes you happy and "you-ify" your MINI in any way you see fit. I have a non-S Countryman and I've added the S side scuttles (with the BlackJack inserts, not the S ones) and also the stainless S pedals. Nobody is going to confuse my car for an S, but it's what I wanted to do.

 

Put whatever the hell you want on it.

You can put a racing saddle on a plow horse - but it ain't going to make it any faster.

 

Doesn't this make as much sense as owning a Justa and putting S badges on it?

I know where there's one of those . . . the owner is not a car freak, I think it was a factory error myself. They bought the car userd so there's no tellin' ... there are zero mods to the car. Bone stock other than this odd badge on the boot.

and also know of a Cooper not S that HAS a JCW kit ... yes, this is legit. In the beginning there WAS a JCW kit for a Justa . . .

 

The MINI one isn't called a Cooper. That seems reasonable.

 

Unless you have a fJCW or an MCS with JCW tuning kit, you shouldn't install the badge, period.
Installing an aero kit does not qualify. OP, feel free to cheese up your MINI, but don't pretend to fool anyone. I know I shouldn't care, it's just that wannabe fakers drive me crazy...

 

This is just too funny, grown man too. OP I agree if you have a JCW kit of any kind even if it is just the aero kit you have right to put it on, if you DO NOT have it, I say put it on too who cares really ? Well some people do obviously but they didn't pay for your car so go on. You asked a simple innocent question and the JCW police showed up lol.....funny

 

Okay, what does qualify? JCW airbox and filter? The $500 steering wheel? The red JCW roof? How about the JCW strut bar? Exactly how much money are you required to spend at the BMW parts department before you have earned the right to use the JCW emblem?

How exactly does it hurt you if someone else likes the JCW emblem and wants to connect to that bit of mini history?

I do not understand people sometimes.

 

By definiton, the JCW badge is for fJCW cars and those with JCW tuning kits only. It has nothing to do with aero kits. It's strictly an engine-based designation. If MINI considered areo kits as JCW qualifiers, they'd have included the badge accordingly.

I could really not care less what someone does to their own car. My stance was that it's incredibly cheesy to pretend you are something you aren't, especially when the only people who you are trying to impress will see right through the nonsense in about 3 seconds.

 

The OP is not trying to pretend anything.. He said he thought it looked cool.. Honestly anyone that has a problem with him putting this on his car has wayyyy to much time on his hands! If anything some should be a little more supportive!

 

You sir just summed up my feelings exactly.

Thank you.

 

For some weird reason my Chevy Tahoe LS has Z71 badges (factory mistake?) where the LS badges should be. This does not seem to bother other Tahoe owners, but I'd never put JCW badges on my S, even though it has a lot of JCW kit stuff on it.