I'm dropping my car off tomorrow for the recall (had to make appt a month ago). Has everyone been getting their car back the same day? I'm planning on being without my car for the weekend, but it would be great if they could bang it out in one day.

 

Only took my dealer about an hour to do the work while I waited.

 

It takes about an hour or hour and a half.

 

My dealer told me the car has to cool down for about an hour before they can do it which is why it takes up to 3 hours

 

30 minutes and cleaned under the bonnet.

 

Just short of two hours with cool down included.

 

Mine was done in about an hour.

 

Had mine done today. Car was in their hands at 9 AM; they called me at ~1:45 PM to tell me it was done. And they also did a tensioner swap (P/N 11-31-4-609-482) for an intermittently-rattling timing chain, which I imagine consumed the bulk of that time...

 

I had it done yesterday...2 hours.

 

1 hour after 30 min. cool down.

 

Yep, had an oil change and the recall work - 2hrs

 

around an hour . . . just long enuf to look around the showroom and buy some filters. Didn't even read two pages of the book I brought.

 

1.5 hours from the time I drove in to the time I drove out.

 

I dropped mine at Irvine MINI for the recall (and mentioned a noisy tensioner), got the last loaner due to the plethora of Mini's waiting for the same.
Picked it up the next morning... and now it purrs like a kitten. :-)

 

2 hours from drop off to pick up. They also flushed my brake fluid and changed the micro filter. That was my last service. Now its all on me.

 

I made the appt last month and Im going next week. They said it would take 4 hrs and I shouldnt wait. So I requested a loaner:-)

 

ok what recall....? and how do i know if mine has a recall or not? sorry just got my 2008 MCs cabrio a month ago.

 

Recall of the aux water pump. Search or surf the 2nd Gen forums and you should find more info. Affected most models, years of the 2nd Gen MINIs. With your MINI being a 1st Gen, it would not be impacted by this particular recall.

 

Mine is a 2007 MCS I've had for just over 2 weeks. I contacted the dealer about another matter and they told me to bring it in for the water pump recall, after having it for a week. Phone the dealer and ask them, it may have already been done.