I'm just curious. I'm wondering what is the worst thing that has happened to anyone's mini in the shortest period of time since purchase. I have had mine for a week and nothing has happened yet!

Rock chips don't count

 

Going on 2.5 months, and all clear so far ::: crosses fingers :::

 

oh well. got one of those on the drive home from the dealer the day i bought it.

 

after One month being a happy MINI owner, someone "KEYED" my MINI and left a long scratch under the gas door

I was so pissed cuz I even did wash and wax my car at the same day before it happened

 

on the second day driving back to Los Angeles, from Salt Lake City MINI of Murray, outside of Las Vegas ... "abosolutely nailed the largest tumble weed I have ever seen (and not seen)... I did see it coming at the last minute, but no where to move to, going up a hill with gamblers with no money, you see..."

 

I think Ollie was only a few weeks old when his windscreen developed a stress crack... it was all downhill after that :impatient :impatient

 

Crashed Jenna 3 days after I got her...
Sam lasted a few weeks before she got hit....

 

Hit by a coke can on the freeway that someone chucked out their window. My MINI was 1 month old. Left some scars I had to patch up

 

I'm always so worried about that! *knock on wood*

I was taking a corner too fast in my first week of ownership when I got curb rash on two wheels at the same time!! Man oh man. Does anyone know any secrets to touching it up? I havethe 17" S-lites in silver...

 

While driving home from the dealer, I realized that this car was going to cost me a LOT of money ... far more than I originally realized.

 

HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! We've all had that realization!

 

Two weeks after I got my Mini, I was driving out of a parking lot, there was a hedge that obscured my view, before I could see past the hedge.... BAMM, some bicyclist slams into my car and literally lands on my windshield. Luckily the bicyclist was OK, but "Rudy" had some serious damage to his bonnet and had to go to the autobody shop.

 

Got keyed 4 months after delivery. It was a big "F" on the passenger side hood. Then a few months after, had to get the cracked windshield replaced. I'm still waiting to fix the passenger side door dents

 

Wow! Now that an unlucky MINI owner!

Take care of that cute pink MCS

 

I had gotten the dreaded windshield stress crack about a year into ownership (bought new in March/April '05). It was replaced on them. I don't count normal stuff like paint road pings.

Zip

 

SES light after 250 miles, took it to the dealer, then again 100 miles later. Turned out to be a faulty fuel pressure regulator.

 

yep, a shopping cart rolled down an incline in a parking lot and rammed into my passenger door. It probably travelled slower than it felt at the time but the sound of hitting my my passenger door was felt in my heart.

As you would expect, it was a cart that started moving without anyone fessing up or apologising... of course.

 

My 04 was rear ended with about 2K on the odometer. Then backed into at abot 8K.

 

Another windscreen stress crack here, about 7 weeks old.

 

Got bumped from behind in the rain when the car was two weeks old. By a black Porsche 928S. No damage to MINI, Porsche's grill was broken...

 

about 3 weeks old and my GF scratched right under the headlight with a snow shovel while cleaning up snow. straight down to the metal about 2 inches long :((

 

...stress crack in the windshield.

 

Car was a few weeks old and I had already started to see SES and EML lights due to the poor software in the MCSa tranny. Several visits to the dealer later and they finally had the recall to replace the wiring harness.

 

Curb rash the night I took her home from the dealership. Let's just say that the MINI is much more responsive than my prior car was!

 

2 months and then CRASH!!! we all fall down. mini totalled.