Hi, my r56 manual shifter have a hard time to go from side to side and now it start to miss is gear when shiffting in second or forth gear. When this happen , I just tap on the side of the shifter and it engage the gear. The shifter start to get hard to operate from a long storage . Easy to go up and down but hard from side to side. What I belive is that the shifter itself is became loose. What else can it be and is this something that happen often on the mini?

 

you can check the cable where it mounts in the transmission. There might be something on the way. Or because of storage, the cable is corroding!

 

yes, the cable most be corroded but I don t belive there is anything on the way of the linkage. I just saw that coolerworxs made a shifter for the r53, does any of you know if it fit o the r56?

 

you can always send them a msg to confirm availability.

 

I can confirm they are available for thr r53 and r56. Coolworxs canada will do a groupbuy. You can contact them on facebook if there is any interest