Is it true that some reviews says mini can't be use on heavy rains, even 6 inches of flood can stalled the car?

 

Maybe you heard about this:

R50 Cooper had a 'resonance chamber' attached to the intake system mounted low in the drivers side fender. When driven through deep water, the water can enter the intake system from this chamber and cause the engine to hydro-lock.

 

6-inches of water can potentially take any passenger car off the road to begin with, so I wouldn't recomend driving in that regardless of if it's Mini or not

 

^ Yeah, the problem with driving through standing water, you can't tell how deep it is until you go into it. Might appear to be a few inches but when you drive into it... uh oh, it's halway up your doors. Ruh-Roh, start paddling !

If it's just a gee-whiz question and you don't intend to put the info to use, don't ask us men... we tend to exagerrate measurements.

 

https://www.northamericanmotoring.com...ze=big&cat=500

They look like Zoro!

 

They kinda do don't they! - good one!

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When I was looking at MINI's back in April, my MA told me that they had moved the intake valve on the R56 higher so it wouldn't have this problem anymore. Or so that it wouldn't have it more than any other car...

 

The R56 manual says not to drive in water deeper than 12 inches.

 

So next time I'll have the wife get out and measure so we don't void the warranty!

 

Cars you would never think of, do the same thing. I learned this the hard way with a Jeep Wrangler, water got about to the the bumper and *poof*.... fast forward to two months later, new engine! When I went back to inspect what happen, it was clear that the air filter was very high, shouldn't have been a problem, but then you follow this little tube down, down, down to find out where the air is actually coming from and at that point I felt really stupid! If i remember correctly (it's been 10+ years), it was right behind the front bumper that it was feed air from.

 

Ah, another mod for the MINI, a depth sounder!