I suspect that my clutch is starting to give out, 2012 CM with 90k miles. I've noticed a fews signs that point me towards this conclusion. My car has a maintenance package good till 100k so if its gonna go I'd like to go so soon I tried searching the forum and google but couldn't find answers to the below questions. I'm worried Mini will push me off until it actually fails or until I'm outside my 100k package.

Few questions:

Is there an inspection port anywhere in the transmission housing where you can get a look at the disk? My Rx7 had one

Does anyone know the procedure by which Mini diagnoses clutch troubles? What they look for / key triggers that would get it replaced under the maintenance package?

Things that make me think the clutch is going:

Putting the car up on ramps the other day, I smelled the clutch burring. I was slipping the clutch to get it on the ramp but not that much as to be able to smell it.

After a 4 hours stent on the interstate, once I got into stop and go traffic, notice the car had now power. The boost was there but no pep.

Today after a 30 minute hwy drive, same thing. Normal acceleration from a light no issue, but give it any bit of boost and it was like there was no boost at all. Rev's came on faster than the speed.