Alright, I'm going to make a VERY long story short and explain what happened to me and my MINI experience.

My first Mini was a 2007 S I bought used. Had some cooling issues after about 1.5 years and MINI wanted around $2k to fix. I see a Rebel Green 2016 JCW in the showroom and said if I can trade in my 2007 and pick up the JCW for the right price, I'll get it. Everything worked out and about 7 hours later in the dealership I leave with my brand new (and first) JCW.

For the first 6 months the JCW was amazing. Around 6 months in I start to hear a suspension noise. Long story short, after MINI having my car for 3.5 weeks and swapping out parts 3 times and tightening this and that, I had enough. I called up corporate and they said they'd get me into a new car, and I can build it...

So, excitedly I built my perfect JCW (and they even threw in Nav and HK sound system for free). Otherwise the car was identical to my previous JCW other than color.

I was told I'd receive this new car the End of March the LATEST. More or less it was a huge cluster F and I finally picked up the car yesterday.

So here she is...

At the dealership



Installed JCW Pro Spoiler Extensions as soon as I arrived home


Just finished Cravenspeed mount





Easy, Clean installation


Remove Before Flight


Last pic at the dealership

 

Congrats! I can't believe you got them to roll over so quick and agree to a new car. Must have had some serious flaws for them to give up.

 

Congrats! I like the colors of your new JCW better! Way to go having a 6MT as well! Were the extensions easy to install?

 

Looks great. Hopefully worth the wait.

 

Sweet! And well worth the wait I'll bet.

 

Yes they came with double sided tape. The hard part is just eye balling them.

 

I would say you got them right in place just eye balling it.

 

Obviously I love the color combo. But I find the spoiler extensions underwhelming at best. I hope they don't cost much, what are they, like $50-100?

 

They are all here:

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...pro-parts.html



They used to be about $50 for the pair when they first came out, then we sold a bunch of them and then MINI raised the price and now they are ~$100 for the pair.

 

I really like those JCW seats, which I understand are a no cost option. Are they Alcantara like my Recaros? Because my seats were expensive ($2700) and those look pretty similar.

 

They were a $2500 option. And yes they're alcantara.

 

Yes, those seats are awesome, just tracked a JCW F54 with them and I was held in the seat.

 

Those are the standard JCW seats with the leather/alcantara option, pretty sure that's $2000 not $2500. I am very happy with my standard cloth JCW seats which cost $0.