R50/53 Clutch noise at launch?
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Clutch noise at launch?
Okay, help me out before I go to the SA next week so I don't let them talk me out of a possible repair issue. Any time my MCS has been sitting
for 8+ hours and then driven, the first 5-11 releases of the clutch
produces a noise. I can only describe the noise as the sound your car
makes after it has just been washed and the brakes are applied. Like a
rubber on metal sound. Maybe like a gum based eraser across glass, I
don't know. From what I can hear (with the windows down) the sound only
happens when leaving a stoplight under light acceleration. As I said
roughly the first 5-11 times. I thought it may have been a brake noise until I was able to slow to a light w/o the brakes and heard the same noise.
for 8+ hours and then driven, the first 5-11 releases of the clutch
produces a noise. I can only describe the noise as the sound your car
makes after it has just been washed and the brakes are applied. Like a
rubber on metal sound. Maybe like a gum based eraser across glass, I
don't know. From what I can hear (with the windows down) the sound only
happens when leaving a stoplight under light acceleration. As I said
roughly the first 5-11 times. I thought it may have been a brake noise until I was able to slow to a light w/o the brakes and heard the same noise.
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Noise
I have the exact same noise. I was also going to take my MINI in and have service look at it. I didn't hear this noise when I first got the car, only after about 4000ish miles. I have a little over 7000 on the car now. How many miles are on your car? Mine is an 06 MCS. Thanks!
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Interesting! I had made the typical complaint about rattling in idle that is caused by the flywheel and they said it was fine and would probably rattle with a new one. When you took yours in, was the flywheel replaced because of the noise we mentioned, the rattle in neutral, or both?
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Okay, help me out before I go to the SA next week so I don't let them talk me out of a possible repair issue. Any time my MCS has been sitting
for 8+ hours and then driven, the first 5-11 releases of the clutch
produces a noise. I can only describe the noise as the sound your car
makes after it has just been washed and the brakes are applied. Like a
rubber on metal sound. Maybe like a gum based eraser across glass, I
don't know. From what I can hear (with the windows down) the sound only
happens when leaving a stoplight under light acceleration. As I said
roughly the first 5-11 times. I thought it may have been a brake noise until I was able to slow to a light w/o the brakes and heard the same noise.
for 8+ hours and then driven, the first 5-11 releases of the clutch
produces a noise. I can only describe the noise as the sound your car
makes after it has just been washed and the brakes are applied. Like a
rubber on metal sound. Maybe like a gum based eraser across glass, I
don't know. From what I can hear (with the windows down) the sound only
happens when leaving a stoplight under light acceleration. As I said
roughly the first 5-11 times. I thought it may have been a brake noise until I was able to slow to a light w/o the brakes and heard the same noise.
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...=clutch+squeal
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Follow up...
Just a quick follow up...Long Beach MINI was able to reproduce the sound, so I got a new clutch and dual mass flywheel installed today all under warranty. Lets see if that fixes the problem. 
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Then again, mine is doing it again barely two months later, so I may have to go through the rigmarole all over. . . .
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