3rd Gen F56 Cooper S Most liked posts in thread: Excessive crank shaft end play F56

I've heard of this happening on a few F56 cars. While the engine is replaced can they replace the cars face? This is not a knock against the F56 for I have been told they are great.

In 1999 there were a bunch of Miata's that had replacement engines installed due to problems with thrust bearings. I wonder if MINI bought the remaining stock of Mazda thrust bearings.

 

The cars that are having these catastrophic failures or fall into the build date are being fixed under an obvious warranty, but non the less not really the situation you want to be in after spending $28K on a car.

Last I heard it was an estimated 20,000 cars affected.

 

Maybe they have Hipsters doing the engine design work as well...

MINI needs less scarves and moar goggles...

 

Maybe they just need a BEAVER..... :idea:

 

I bought a low mileage (5700) CPO car. Warranty is good until 9/2019 or another 66K miles. If it doesn't fail by then i'm probably good to go.

 

Its a shithole run by a imp.

 

IDIOTS led my an IDIOT (you won't find any sugar here!)

 

Still friendly here.... Just made up from a bunch of individuals here that are not all the same... There is a good selection of individuality here....

 

It happens...quite a few stories...Detroit tuned had a description of what is happening with the new motor on witeroof radio...
As it has been said before..."avoid first year mini models/generations"...lol
Think anybody believes it yet?!

 

The thing that's always most interesting to me (and the story you rarely hear) is the root cause analysis on HOW this kind of issue makes it into production, and past all the long-term pre-production testing. i.e. Why this didn't show up on the test mules.

 

I'd guess something was machined out of spec or rather the spec that was specified wasn't good enough. More guessing is it takes miles to have this affect the engines. Enough miles have been run that this is starting to show up. Seems BMW quality isn't any better than Peugeot/Citroen quality. Sure hope this isn't a long lasting issue.

 

And you thought the price for the R56 HPFP cost was a "Poke in the eye"....

Wait until yer warranty runs out on this baby....

 

This could be the very best reason to op for getting the extended warranty...

 

Did they give the story about it having a lifetime engine?

Did they explain how long lifetime is?

So MINI changes engines like earl filters now?

Unbelievable.... Simply unbelievable...

Maybe the extended warranty on the BMW / MINI engine should be reconsidered....

Oh..... And whut the heck is LXM fb?

 

One engine has a problem and we have an epidemic?

The reason they want to put a whole new engine in is so they can take that one back to the tech center and tear it down to see what happened.

 

HAHAHA Another "award winning" BMW / MINI motor hits the dumpster.

 

It is NOT one engine-the techs I know at 2 different dealers have told me they are changing engines due to crank end play problems on 15s and 16s-interestingly, the 14s have a different engine according to my contacts-and yes Dave is right they are sending them back complete so engineering can look at them

 

WOW....

Wonder if the BMW engines are in this number as well.... That's going to be expensive....