2 months after purchase and the wifey had to go make friends with the curb...... front passenger side wheel chewed up.....made me wanna puke....

Had to grin and bear it though ...after all, it's HER MINI!!!!!

 

I had a belt tensioner fail at about 200 miles from new.

 

I just realized that readnig these stories really make me sick! Maybe the thread was a bad idea!

 

Went to Chicago on business.
Picked up car Thursday night.
Left Friday 2am to drive back to CA.
About 5am (3 hours!) I hit a large cat on the freeway. Over 3k damage into 3 hours of a 30 hour drive. ARRGGGHHHH...
BTW, color matching sucks.

Sean. :(

 

First I barely swiped a curb while backing into a p-space-1 month.:impatient Then within the first 6 wks I have hit two birds going about 70mph, one didn't move off the road quick enough, I wasn't really looking at the road. Then one flew out of the bushes, too fast to swirve, what's with these birds here, I have never hit anything driving until now.

 

Had gum stuck in the keyhole of the driver's side door within a week of getting her.

 

Mushroomed strut towers...........during the course of 2 months.

 

Rear ended after only 13 days of ownership I remember reading this thread before taking delivery and thinking to myself "I hope I don't ever post in that thread!" D'oh.

 

Got mine Jan 31, 05. Drove it home across country, through a snow storm in Kansas without a scratch.
First day back I drove it to work and some @#^(%&#(!#$ kids used it as target practice - put a star in the windshield and a nick on the bonnet and the roof.
So the answer would be - about a week.:impatient

 

I purchased the invisible force field option from dealer and so far works great.

 

About two weeks after I got it I bought a bunch of cleaning supplies from the auto store and on the way home half a bottle of window cleaner spilled in the boot. It even ruined an entire box of swiffer dusters...

 

5th or 6th day....

Windshield Stress crack, yay, being replaced this week by the dealership.

Drew

 

My wife got a ticket in her MCC on the way home from the dealership the day we picked it up. Does that count?

Mine had the dreaded '05 belt squeal that started in the first 150 miles, and the Xenon leveling sensor cable rubbed itself into a short circuit on the DS drive shaft boot in the same time frame - both fixed at about 250 miles when I figured out what both problems were. No problems in the one year since

 

Seriously, you guys are scaring me!

 

Gotta flat on the way back to SF Bay Area from MINI of Murray in SLC. At first, I thought it was just a false alarm, but I checked the air pressure, and the was ZERO air in the tire! I drove on it at 70-80 mph on it like that for about 60 miles. Luckilly, it was on a Saturday, and I got it repaired at a local tire shop. Funny. I drove around for 8 years in my 3 Series and never had a flat. Go figure!

 

Picked it up last year just before Thanksgiving after a 6-week order waiting period, REAR-ENDED by a City BUS Saturday morning, it may be a total we will see. It took quite a HIT with me and my infant daughter in her car seat in the back.

 

Our first MINI - the 02' now gone - had it 6 months and got rear ended on Christmas Eve. 3K in repairs....

2nd MINI - my Cabrio - had it about a month and some nice person keyed it from front to back on the drivers side.. 3K in repairs.

3rd MINI - knock on wood - nothing yet...

Donna

 

and I even drove it and nothing happened.. :-)

 

Road Gator on the interstate, doing about 65 in traffic, no where to go except over it, took out the lower black part of the front air dam, didn't mess up the bumper cover, self rerpaired for about $40.00

 

I had my 03 MCS for 8 months before she was totalled by a passenger van that pulled out in front of me at an intersection.

 

After two days and ~200 miles the power steering failed on my '06. Turned out that a hose failed, and it was something that the techs at Classic had never seen before. Had to be either a defective part, or improper installation at the factory.

 

what's with everyone getting keyed?

people out there just don't like minis or what?

-e

 

200 Miles and first rain the driver side windshield wiper came off!! Was never tightened at the factory....Everything else was wonderful till someone stole my poor mini 7 months later I really miss my mini but I have a new one on the way!!

 

Didn't have to wait until AFTER buying !! Bought my Jet Black...........with mushroomed shock towers.

 

SES light on 3 days after picking it up.....turned out to be a crack in the gas tank...they said it was some kind of defect, had it replaced & all is fine!