R50/53 Road and Track features used MINIs
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Road and Track features used MINIs
The current Road and Track Magazine has a very complimentary write-up on the first gen Mini's as a used car purchase. They also list some gotcha's to look for before buying. Good piece. I couldn't find a link to the article, though. (I accidentally posted this to the Cabrio section. Sorry for the duplicate posting, but I didn't know how to move it.)
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Great read
The article was perfect for anyone who is not a regular on this board or listener to WRR. I liked it because they used my mechanic Andres from Bay Bridge Motors. I use them for all maintaince except the the free stuff i have remaining for six months of my 3 year 36,000 mile crappy BMW/MINI free maintaince. I like how both mechanics recommended oil changes before 7500 miles and pay attention to the cooling system that plays havic with BMW's. As a side note, I read Bimmer magazine a great read. They focus on BMW's and talk about the various problems with the BMW's they have experienced or as we MINI owners call quirks. It's amazing that some of the cooling ,brake , steering rack problems and maintaince problems in the 3 5, 7 seris seem to show up in the MINI. Gee wonder why Bimmer recommends servicing your BMW more frequently than BMW's free maintaince. Because as they say any car can make it 7 yrs 100,000 miles on BMW life time fluids and scheduled oil changes, but if you want to last past 100,000 you got to spend money on maintaince.
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05+ MCS superchargers come with coated vanes, which were only previously available on JCW MCS prior to 05 model year.
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