Suspension Springs, struts, coilovers, sway-bars, camber plates, and all other modifications to suspension components for Clubman (R55), Cooper and Cooper S (R56), and Cabrio (R57) MINIs.

Suspension Best reco for keeping front wheels on ground?

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Old Jun 1, 2011 | 05:20 PM
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Just drive it in reverse!

Then it will stick real good!

Seriously, back to a point in your original thread, here are two suggestions for less than $200 that are much less invasive than lowering for either warranty or resale:

1. NM engine arm bushing. Easy, ten minute install. Fully reversible, and hard to imagine any dealer hassle (almost invisible anyway).

2. Get the car software flashed for the 2011 version at the dealer.

#1 cleaned up some of my torque steer on a 2010 R56 S (w/stick). I did that first. As advertised in some other threads, #2 was huge. And, the dealer did it so zero warranty issues and any related modules get upgraded to current S/W spec. Cost me one hour of dealer labor charge.

Sum of the two is probably a 95% reduction in torque steer. It used to feel like it wanted to jump 2 feet left when you gave it a lot of gas. Now it is just a very minor feel you have to think about to even notice, even at full throttle in first or second gear.
 
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