I have a little over 1200 miles on my Cooper S. I followed the dealer reccomended break of no faster than 100mph no revs above 4500. Recently noticed that when I down shift from 3rd to 2nd I get a noise. The best way to describe the noise is a metal on metal scrape. The other issue I have is water leaking into the car. It seems to be running down the inside of the door and then over the sill into the footwell area on the drivers side. Appt is for next tuesday so I will update once service is done. Also I scheduled an oil change since I just finished the break in.

 

good luck with that.. let us know how it goes.

 

If you haven't already, you may want to check out Krut's thread in this forum about groaing second gear.

Then again, you may not.