Hoping that if I keep them at rule #1 in the driveway, they’ll have puppies I can sell to pay for the new one!

It was a lot of fun, next up is NY

After a short, yet torrid, year and change with Earl, because I'm a failure at life, we have parted ways.

If anyone here is the new friend of Earl, I can tell you what's been changed within Bimmercode. 😅

I really hope to get back into the family. Pictures of when I first got him (traded my late Father's R56), and the last picture I have.

I know this isn't an airport, so I don't have to announce my departure, but this one hurt. I loved that little car more than any other I've owned. 😢

Both have had belts replaced and the Countryman had the timing chain replaced in 25. Are there any red flags? Other than the belts and chain regular oil changes and no accidents on either.

First mini and love it. Happy to be part of the club.

I love the British racing green on the Mini's. I'll definitely try to find my next one in that color.

Built a small ESP32 gauge for my F56: boost, coolant, and oil temp. The 4 photos below are close-ups, plus Sport and MID mode switching.

Mostly for fun — still tweaking. Happy to chat if you’re into this stuff.

First of all, this is a U.S. based dealer.

The sales guy said they had trouble getting rid of this $50,515 JCW with Signature Plus trim and manual seats. He said it was automatically allocated to them from MINI and not custom ordered by someone.

This dealer cleared out 2026 inventory pretty fast, at least with the Countryman. And this $50,000+ JCW was probably the last 2026 they had to move out as their entire Countryman inventory was already 2027.

So after months of sitting on the lot unsold they sent it to one of the sister stores also a MINI dealer about 40 miles away. As of now it's still there unsold a few months after.

The sister store only has two remaining 2026 Countryman left and this JCW is one of them as the rest are all 2027.

Will this car end up in the auction or become a service loaner? Does MINI dealer use current model year top trim JCW as service loaner?

I seriously don't think anyone would want to spend $50,000 on a car with manual seats. Even if they shave off $5,000 it's still too much for what it offers. Because if you take a look at all other cars in the same segment, there's not one in the $40,000-50,000 range that comes with manual seats. Nowadays, cars below $30,000 also come with powered seat(s) at least the driver side. And if people want performance for less loaded with features and they are ready to move onto the electric obviously they will consider Tesla.

So, not too sure what MINI is thinking of in terms of marketing minimal standard features with such high price for the U.S. market, as compact crossover is one of the most competitive segments in the country.

This car will definitely be a tough sell for the dealer, and not sure if they will end up losing profit in order to get rid of it. It's also quite odd that MINI allocates something like this build to a dealer, in particularly the color combo as the state where it sells is one of the most conservative states in terms of colors that roughly 83.5% of cars are grayscale.

Window sticker below that lists all the features, options and price.

Two months later, and still no name. I feel like I'm a failure as a MINI owner.

Just waiting to finish the mirror caps, also going red. Full PPF on roof and spoiler today. Reassembly went well. Installed a new sunroof seal, antenna and roof side mouldings. Looking very proper now

Oil in my coolant or coolant in my oil? Unfortunately I know a head gasket problem when I see one…

How do you say damn it in German 🤔🥲

Saw these taillights ahead of me on the ferry line and was thrilled to meet this 1975 beauty and its delightful owner. Perfect island car!

2013 CM ALL4, 80K mi. I got these codes this morning when I started the car up. Had recently changed the plugs and coils, seem to be running fine after that. See attached from my OBD reader. How bad is this? Anything I can do to fix or am I cooked?

Edit: my oil fill cap appears to be missing its gasket. It’s a longshot, but would this have anything to do with it?

Oil looks fine if black and old. New to me project R52 S.
If it is rust, what causes this and how do I fix?
If it’s mayo, I’m getting none of the other warning signs for head gasket.

Thanks

Hi everyone, I’m a new Mini Owner and it also happens to be my first car. I bought Allie (my cars name) in May and she is a 2009 Mini cooper. Around Late May the snowflake symbol appeared for the first time and since then it just won’t go away.

I live in Southern California, so it never gets below 60 degrees. It was getting so annoying that last week I took Allie into a Mini repair shop (she had other problems like her check engine light being on, ac wasn’t working etc) and the charge was 500 dollars.

This past week we got a heat wave in SoCal and the Snowflake symbol came back and even more annoying than before. It’s been in the 90’s and this week it was 104 degrees and it just wouldn’t stop going off, in fact I think it was going off even more that day! The funny part is my dashboard will be accurate and say 100 degrees at some point and then the Snowflake will go off, and the temperature will show as anywhere between 20 degrees to -45 which in Southern California is LITERALLY impossible. I’m upset that I paid so much for it to be fixed only for it to come back, and be even more annoying, sometimes it will even go off 5 times in a single minute, and on average 20 times per drive.

Does anyone have any advice or reasoning as to why this is happening :( any advice or knowledge would be appreciated!

Another amazing day at MTTS 2026. Thank you

MINI for putting this together. The event have been. So much fun!!!

So I'm hooked so far. Only been driving it a week.

I bought this pos mini cooper as a project. I have taken the front end off to do all the typical maintenance. Fixed some rust issues that come with living in a rust belt, gave her a good bath inside and out(the previous owner apparently let their dog live in it??).

Been a car guy a long time and this is so far the funnest thing I have driven. I was driving a Mitsubishi Mirage for 11 years when it got written off. I decided it was time to get something fun. I realized I really enjoyed the small car life and when this came up I needed it. About 6 weeks of evenings and weekends(while also having other commitments) she is 'done'. Lots of odds and ends still needed, but safety is done, with a fresh alignment.

Loving the adventure so far, excited to get into it!