Checking out the underside of my 2006 R53 Sunday and noticed that one of the three lines that run under the passenger side has been damaged. I think this is the fuel feed line, no? Not getting any codes and it still runs so it must not be completely crushed. Anyone have any experience replacing one of these? The part isn't that expensive, but past experience with anything fuel related tells me it's never easy....

 

I replaced one of these lines a while back because one was drying out/cracking in the engine bay. I'm pretty sure you have to remove or lower the subframe. I happened to have the subframe off for other reasons, so it wasn't a big deal when I replaced mine...

 

Yikes.
Did anyone jack up the MINI before or put in on a rack / lift the wrong way? Did you hit something?



Here is the part # 16127176927 for the inner one ( #2), closest to the exhaust tunnel. There is a little short line in the rear. I believe there are little quick connects , and undo all those little brackets and feed it around brackets. See if it will fit through the sub-frame gap. That's all the info I have.


http://www.ecstuning.com/Search/SiteSearch/16127176927/


Thanks

 

Number 2 is the one I replaced - yup, those are quick-connects on both ends.

 

Yup. Piece of Schedule 40 cast iron pipe. Knocked me up on two wheels and destroyed understrut bar.

 

Wow

Glad worse didn't happen. That's crazy.

 

Yikes.

Hope you can get things fixed. You have the part above. It looks like it scraped off a tiny bit of the under-body undercoating. I would sand / touch up that area with undercoating again if you can. Just so its does not rust. MINI has a thick under-body coating then its lightly painted.

Thanks