My Mini is at 80k miles and the clutch is almost gone. She’s slipping in 3, 4, 5, 6 gears. The car is starting to have a hard time holding 6th gear now and I’m tempting fate trying to drive it any longer. I plan on ordering the parts today and getting set up to pull the transmission this weekend.

I need recommendations for the correct and inexpensive OEM style replacement parts, your assistance would be much appreciated.
I need:
Replacement clutch kit (flex plate, clutch, throw out bearing, bearing guide)
Clutch assembly tool, non-BMW part please since it should cost $8, and not $80!

Rear main seal? Should I purchase any other parts to replace while the transmission is pulled?

Thanks gang, I appreciate your help!

 

If the transmission is out, I would do the output seals and fresh fluid(I prefer Redline MTL or MT-85)

For the clutch kit, on these POS clutch/flywheels, 90% of the time, your flywheel will need replacing as well. They seem to get heat damage and stress cracks quite easily.

Along with that, dual mass flywheels, in my opinion, are overly complex, mushy feeling pieces of total crap. horrible idea that everyone does now to make it feel soft and "smooth" for sissy *** drivers that might as well stick with automatics.

What my plan is, and what I personally would suggest, is going to JMTurboCoopers.com and finding the single mass flywheel conversion/clutch kit. Should come with EVERYTHING needed to do the whole job for the same price or cheaper (depending on where you source your parts), than just doing factory parts and the dual mass, insanely expensive, flywheel.

 

I appreciate the heads up on the DMF. I was only expecting to replace the clutch and resurface the flywheel. The additional cost for a new flywheel really sucks, especially since the clutch is going out right at the worst time.

My son has some heavy hospital bills that need to be paid. I was really hoping for $350 in parts instead of a $1,000.

 

I feel you on that. Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it does, I don't have that tree in my yard. $350 in parts and a Saturday of work is all I wanted to put in, until I saw all the horrors of these flywheels going bad.

To the best of my knowledge, you can't resurface the factory flywheel. Be it because you just aren't able to resurface the face material, or because the heat damage and stress cracks can't be fixed. So it's either $350 for a clutch+$600-700 for a flywheel or $900-1000 for a full kit that will give you a steel, single mass flywheel that not only will last longer, but can be resurfaced when replacement time comes again. So that's the route I'm taking.