I've had a thought creeping into my head a bit the past couple of weeks and am seeking advice from other NAM'ers on how to address it. Let me also preface this by saying this is not in any way buyer's remorse. I love my MINI and MINIs in general.

I've had Nic for around a month and a half now (took him home on 11-17). He has around 5,000 mi on him. He had 198 mi on him at the lot because he was used as a demo car, so they gave me an extra 5k mi on his service plan.

Pretty much right off the bat when I got him home and washed him for the first time (less than a week after I got him), I noticed the seal on his boot window was coming unglued. No big deal I suppose. I planned to have them re-glue it next time I went to the dealership. Problem is, the dealer is around 3.5 hrs from me. It's well worth the trip to have one of these cars...as long as it's only once in a while. And it turns out they don't re-glue it, but had to reorder the part (didn't find that out until I went back to the dealership!).

I took Nic by my family mechanic shortly after getting him home and had the guy check him out. He gave him a look over and then felt the tires, at which point he told me I needed to call the dealership and get them to replace the tires and re-align the car because the alignment was off and the tires felt feathered toward the outside. I asked on here about the alignment issue and pretty much convinced myself that it wasn't out of alignment because of the very responsive steering and the fact that I didn't feel any 'shimmy' at any speed. The other day, since I was approaching 5k mi, I had his tires rotated and the mechanic that did it (not the same one as previously mentioned) also said the tires felt feathered. Okay, so now I guess I may actually have an alignment issue. I noticed yesterday during a rather spirited drive that there is possibly a slight vibration at higher speeds, but it's always hard to distinguish between that and the road feel to me.

Okay, third issue: I began to notice that the drive side window didn't roll up as quickly as the passenger side window. Over the past month and a half, I've noticed the window actually has gotten worse and you can now hear the motor winding up and down as it tries to push up the window. Addressed that with my MA and it's going to be replaced.

Final issue: after washing the car pretty thoroughly a couple weeks ago, I noticed condensation on the front passenger side fog lamp. I mentioned it to my MA and the service manager at the dealership, and they're going to have to replace that too.

Okay, so in 1.5 months of owning my car, I've definitely had 3 things go wrong (back window seal, driver side window motor, front passenger side fog lamp), and possibly have an alignment issue that was apparently there from the beginning.

Again, I'll state that I love my car. However, I don't like the fact that I just paid over $23k for a new car that already has 3 or 4 things wrong with it. I don't really think that's how it should go. I put in a call to my MA a while ago and am waiting for him to return it asking what they could do. They're probably going to say something to the effect that I can just bring it in whenever something goes wrong while it's under the service period, and that'd be all fine and dandy if I wasn't 3.5 hrs from the place. I'm thinking of asking them to replace the car with another of similar value.

Anyone else been in this predicament? Even if not, I know there are lots of people here with opinions they'd love to share, so I'm all ears (err, eyes I guess). What would you do in this situation?