I am going to attempt to do a 2 year brake fluid flush for my first time with a motive power bleeder on my 2016 F55. I am at 60,000 miles and the dealer last did a flush 2 years ago. My question is do I need to flush the clutch slave cylinder (and if so does it need to be compressed with a tool if I am using the motive bleeder) and do I also need to bleed the abs with my scan tool? I know the order of bleeding the brakes but not sure how the clutch and ABS fall into that order if they need to be done. Thanks.

 

I have the same question. For some reason, there is very little information out there on brake and clutch fluid changes on these models?

 

Agreed and not sure why. I ended up doing the brake flush with a quart of fluid in my motive power bleeder and could not tell the difference from my new and old brake fluid so I left my clutch alone. When I did the flush on my son's mustang, there was a noticeable difference in the fluid look and color. I was afraid to mess with the clutch here with the old fluid looking good.

 

No MINI experience but with another (German) brand of sports car I did a brake and clutch hydraulic flush/bleed using a power bleeder.

After the brakes were done I bled the clutch hydraulic system which required depressing the clutch pedal and using a length of lumber to hold the pedal down. This didn't work well enough and the next day by the time I drove 30 miles to the office it was clear the clutch fluid flush/bleed was inadequate. I enlisted the help of a co-worker to hold the clutch pedal down a time or two while I opened this closed the bleed screw. The amount of fluid lost was minimal and I didn't have to add fluid to the brake fluid reservoir (from which the clutch hydraulic system obtained its fluid).

Techs use a telescoping rod which can be expanded to keep the clutch pedal down and the rod hooks under the steering wheel and the power bleed outcome is perfect.

As an aside I think the suggested bleed pressure was 20psi but I was advised to limit the pressure to 15psi.

I did not have a way to cycle the ABS pump so the brake hydraulic system bleed was not done by the book. This is one of the reasons why I gave up doing this service and instead for subsequent brake and clutch hydraulic services had the car at the dealer service department for this.

 

Done it with the 3 liter schawben tool and it was fine with the that one, clutch and brake lines. Smaller tools its hard to do the clutch line.

https://www.ecstuning.com/b-schwaben.../007237sch01a/



ABS mode on the schwaben scan tool is needed if you touch the ABS system or repair a line near it.