Hi Everyone,

This is my first post. I recently bought my wife a used 2006 mini cooper S to get around town. I never really had much interest in Mini Coopers until I drove this car and now I am hooked! It is so much fun to drive. I have been trying to get her to trade cars with me but she refuses, she loves it! I have to settle with borrowing it here and there on the weekends.

It is a good car but it is used and has a few issues that I need to address. So I should have some "how-to" questions soon. The first things I need to tackle are replacing the Rotars, the radiator fan and the lower control arm bushings.

Thanks in advance for your help!!

 

Now you need to get your own MINI

 

around these parts thats a common story

 

I see another 2-MINI family in the making...

 

Took me 6 weeks to get my own...

 

You might as well trade your vehicle for a Mini. I am sure the Wifey wont part with her new ride.

 

And the addiction begins... Your story is why my wife and I each have one.

 

The trick now will be to get the JCW, so she'll be jealous and want your car :D

 

holy deja vu!

I experienced the same exact phenomenon last year in April (almost the one-year anniversary today)..and hers was an '06 MCS also...

so I went out and bought my own 2010 MCS on May 1st!!

(and this is after I dissuaded her from buying a mini-cooper for years! lol)

packimocity

 

Ditto- bought her a 2010 S becuase I didn't want to won the Bug she wanted. I pretty much took over the car and then traded it for an 2011 JCW.
I have no idea how fun the MINI's coould be. They need to do better marketing because I read all the car mags and thought it was just another small economy car. It now see's track days and my Maserati for exotic events and long road trips.

 

Yep I am really tempted! I have a few more months to pay on my mazda 3 (boring) and then I am seriously going to look in to it. The JWC sounds about right but then that is going to start a performance war right in my own house. She could not even drive 6 months ago now she is tearing up the road in a manual S that has been modified.!!

 

The dastardly plan in action .
Just go ahead and buy one now, you might as well start enjoying it.

Welcome to NAM!

Annette

 

See, now this sounds like fun times ahead for the household

 

Ha I let a co-worker (Mazda3 owner) drive my GP (sober driver that could drive 6 speed) and said he thought his car was sporty. 4 months later he got a MCS.