Wanted to ask if anyone has had any problems with the new Turbo Mini. Looking to guy one soon but want to find out if it has any problems so far from those of you that own them.

 

Not a single issue or worry from ours. 15,000 miles, driven from sea level to 9,000 ft, plus.

 

No problems, daily driver, 7500 miles.

 

Daily Driver at 5000 miles thusfar

 

DD/ 13k/ No issues (minus the clutch @ 107 miles, under warranty)

 

Zero issues, daily driver and 14,500 miles for us

 

18,000 miles no problems.

 

The motor is still to new to tell. So far there looks to be hood temp issues and cold start noise problems. Time will tell...get a used MINI next so you have a 100K warranty.

 

OVER 9000 MILES IN JUST 4 MONTHS WITH ZERO ISSUES! OIL LEVEL HAS NOT CHANGED, INSTALLING ALTA INTAKE TODAY!

 

I've got close to 9k on Lewis with no problems so far. We motor to work every day in the traffic and cold and everything else.

 

Look in the forum tab for problems:
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...play.php?f=188
Take a Tums first and a few shots of Wild Turkey.

 

5500 daily driven miles so far, no problems (touch wood)

 

when will we need a new turbo?

 

YER TURBO SHOULD LIVE AS LONG AS THE ENGINE!

 

I really, REALLY doubt that... the bearings are subjected to some pretty amazing forces (what does the turbine spin up to, 100k rpm?). Here's to hoping, though...

 

9,000 miles since July 2007. No problems.

 

I work on nothing but turbocharged and turbine engines. The lubrication and cooling of our little turbos is far superior to the 50 year old technology employed in our current aircraft engines. About the only thing that will cause our turbos to fail is oil starvation or injesting something like hardware to damage the turbo vanes. I fully expect my turbo to last as long as my engine though I may go mod crazy and step up to a slightly larger unit. The only problem is a larger turbo yields more boost but low end suffers.

 

A few nickel and dime issues on mine, now at 16,000. I really expected more because it's a week 3 build. Nothing has been significant, and it's now a year since delivery as of Thursday.

No engine/turbo problems at all (crossing fingers as I type), and I love to put my foot in it!

 

I think one of the major issues that people have is this:
http://www.motoringfile.com/2008/02/...issue-exposed/

 

Interesting article. I've (again crossing my fingers) not experienced this in the past year. Admittedly we don't get very cold weather--lowest this winter was about 30 degrees--but the writer indicates it's more a function of the engine not being run recently. I don't drive mine every day. (Ah, a sacrilege, you say! Well, actually it's because I work out of my home.) I'd say my car runs about every other day, or every third day. And it's parked on a driveway with a slight slope. I would think the combination would make it most likely to have the problem. In fact, on one occasion the car sat for nearly 2 weeks--long enough for the tires to groan against the emergency brake when finally driven. No problems.

I noticed there was a recommendation that the engine not be run above 2000 rpm until "the oil properly fills the circuit." This seems to be a bit high for a newly started engine--at least according to the way I was taught to start up both auto and aircraft engines. I let it basically start itself--when the button's pushed it's in idle, and I take a few seconds before I leave the drive. Notice I said SECONDS, not minutes. No warm up period. Just long enough to put my purse on the floor (yeah, I'm one of those) or check the CD, etc. Then it's off as normal, driving through my subdivision. By the time I reach the highway, it's pretty well able to increase speed. I guess I'm lucky in that I live at the end of the highway, so I don't have to roar into traffic, but can take about a mile before I have to worry about it.

Does this make a difference? Or am I just lucky? Or is this really not as widespread a problem as NAM's threads would suggest? I dunno.

 

daffodileb, check out this thread here at NAM: https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...d.php?t=121761

You might not have hit the right amount of miles yet. Obviously this issue doesn't manifest itself to every body, and the mileage that it kicks in at also varies. I'm hoping it is not a design issue that's waiting to happen to all of us MCS owners.

 

And then today I get multiple trouble codes. Hopefully it's no big deal, none of them were "red." Ruined my day though.

 

Yes, I'd already read it. I'm a calendar year and 16,000 miles in on mine, so I think it would have shown up by now.

 

The Consumer Reports article in their buyers guide speaks quite highly of the 56S

 

17k miles of fun:I do have minor rattle on starts (rarely) & only when the car has been sitting for a week or more. Never bothered me & always goes away. I change oil every 4500 miles, it runs like a sewing machine!
No sleep loss for me.