general problems of the 2006 Mini Cooper

The air conditioning had stopped blowing cool air. Then when I was parked, and idled, my power steering stopped working while trying to back out. After wrestling with the wheel for a minute to get out of a parking lot area, the power steering came back on. The mechanic said one of my coolant fans does not work. This may be part of a recall that affect 2005 Minis with coolant fan/power steering, however my car was made just a few months past the recall.

Once the car warms up the automatic transmission lurches when the car shifts from 1st to 2nd and 3rd gear. The engine still accelerates, however, the transmission simply whines and no power is distributed to the wheels. Very unsafe when pulling out in traffic. Mini advertised these vehicles as never requiring transmission fluid changes. The vehicle has less than 100,000 miles. No recall exists, however, the issue is well documented on web forums.

The contact owns a 2006 Mini Cooper. While driving 40 mph, the vehicle started losing power. The accelerator pedal was being depressed with no response. The vehicle was pulled over to the side of the road and was able to be driven home at a low rate of speed. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 90,000.

To make you aware of a potential safety problem. The 2006 Mini Cooper cvt transmission has had numerous failures. A California judge recently ruled in favor of a class action suit against BMW(Mini Cooper). We just became aware of the transmission going out in our car. It still runs and shifts but our concern is that it could quit at an inopportune time and cause an accident. Mini has shown no moral or ethical interest in replacing the transmission at no cost or reduced cost to the consumer.

Driving home from work as usual, I was exiting the highway when I felt a jolt from the engine compartment, the engine seemed to sputter and as soon as I slowed down to 30 mph or so the car would not shift back up to the higher gears. Luckily I was only a quarter mile from home so I put the hazard lights on and drove very carefully into my driveway. I put the car in park and got out to look under the hood to see if anything was drastically wrong ( any leaks, smoke, etc. ). Nothing appeared to be malfunctioning so I put the car back into drive and instantly stalled the engine . I then called a tow truck to have it towed to my local Mini Cooper dealership to diagnose the issue. I was told it would need an entirely new cvt transmission.

The automatic transmission seems very jerky and hesitant. It has died on me once while driving as it stalled out. I am afraid the transmission is close to failure.

I have a 2006 Mini Cooper conv s, aprox 53,000 miles, has a cvt automatic transmission, at this time shifting in 1st, 2nd and 3rd gears has been erratic, with very jerky shifting and speed.

I was driving on the freeway at 70mph in far left lane and the car just shut off. The brake and stearing wheel got stiff and would not work right. The area of the freeway was crowded due to construction and it was impossible to get to the side. The car behind me was entirely to close and im surprised I was not hit.

Tl-the contact owns a 2006 Mini Cooper. The contact stated while driving 65 mph the vehicle would down shift and stall. The contact had to pull over to the side of the road and switched the shifter into manual mode to shift the gears up and down. The contact also stated the vehicle battery light illuminated while the vehicle was parked. Engine malfunction due to the cooling system cause smoke from the engine and corrosion on the engine itself. The contact did not take the vehicle to a dealer for a diagnostic test. The failure mileage was 74,000. Jo.

I heard a whirring sound and a light came on the dashboard. Took it to the Mini Cooper dealership bob smith where I had the car serviced and where it was originally purchased. The technician did not pull any codes, just took the car for a ride. He pronounced that the transmission had to be replaced as it is a sealed transmission as it is a "sealed" transmission and therefore it could not be repaired at a cost of $9000! he then took off $1500 for a cost of $7500! googled this problem to find out that so many Mini's had this problem that a class action lawsuit had been filed. Contacted Miniusa who scoffed at the problem and offered no help or relief. Hoping that Mini will be forced to deal with this issue and that a recall will be initiated before anyone is seriously injured.

I purchased a rebuilt left half shaft from bestsource auto parts on line for a 2006 Mini Cooper s. The re-builder name on the box was feq. The outer cv joint housing exploded into pcs after about 3000 miles. I was lucky it happened driving off from a stop. If it happened on the highway the damage would have huge and the car may have gone out of control. This failure should have never happened. The thick steel housing exploded then releasing the half shaft to fly in a big arc. Since I was driving off from a a stop it was a loud bang and then clanging of the half shaft smacking the wheel etc. I was lucky but someone else may not be so lucky. I was in las vegas so I took the car to desert Mini and they saw it first hand, I took photo's I can send to you. Bestsource tells me feq is a quality rating "first equipment quality" and that they could not find them either. Feq has a simple one page website with no contact information. I understand metallurgy, this part was flawed. You can tell by the way the brake looks. . Desert Mini kept the part and sent it back to BMW last week. We can track it down I am sure of it. I have tried to find the vendor but no luck. This is wrong. They need to know about this and they should cover my replacement expense. The expense is not as important to me as safety to others right now. The photos I have will make any of your safety engineers concerned.