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R60/R61 Stock Problems/IssuesDiscussions related to warranty related issues and repairs, or other problems with the OEM parts and software for R60 AND R61 MINI Cooper and Cooper S MINIs.
Not sure how long it takes, but it more than likely will be breaking. My car is on its second lumbar support. Now that I am out of warranty if it breaks I will have to self engineer a fix. Dealer pretended that it is very rare for it to happen and yet my car had a prior replacement under the first owner.
If you do a site search for 'lumbar' you'll find that this issue has been discussed here a few times. Here's one example of what a site search will find.