I was pulling up to a light this afternoon when I heard something bad from in the footwell and felt something under my foot. When I stopped I found half of a wire ring sheared off of something lying on the carpet under the pedals. Looking at the parts diagram I think its from the return spring for one pedals, probably the clutch (#15 in the diagram).

This doesn't seem to be dangerous to drive like this, the clutch still seems to work. I've scheduled a service appointment to look at this.

 

Good!! It was probably not installed exactly right in the first place.

 

I agree with gokartride. WIth a mini THAT new, it has to be a problem with the installation from the factory.

 

Time for a visit to the dealer...

I have had two already and my 08 MCS is only 2.5 months old. Minor but irritating stuff...

 

He's at the dealer now, he'll be looked at on Monday.

 

The service advisor called, I was right about it being the clutch return spring. They're rush ordering a new one and hopefully it'll be installed by lunch tomorrow.

I'm not sure about wrong installation, this is Tristan who's 18 months old by now. I'd suspect fatigue in a faulty spring. The alternative is the faulty installation or it moved somehow and got caught between 2 surfaces as the pedal moved and got sheared off. A careful examination of the ends of the broken spring might tell you which happened, I didn't look that closely.