Transmission Fluid Leaking Problems of Mini Cooper

Tl- the contact owns 2005 Mini Cooper. The contact stated that her vehicle would intermittently lose power steering, the transmission was leaking fluid. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The dealer stated the power steering pump and fan. The dealer also informed that the transmission would have to to be replaced. The power steering failure was repaired however, the transmission was not. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 64,200. Az.

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The car would not easily shift gears. When I brought it to the Mini Cooper dealership, I was told that all of the transmission fluid leaked out of the transmission. The transmission is "sealed", so the transmission fluid cannot be checked or changed. I was told that I needed to replace the transmission and clutch. The car should not have a sealed transmission if it can develop a leak so easily.

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The transmission on our 2005 Mini had been slipping but we could not afford to have it fixed. My daughter was driving to various local shopping plazas applying for jobs. She could not have been driving over 45 mph because that was the maximum speed one could drive without the transmission slipping out of gear. The car began to make a whirring sound and smoke. She pulled into a parking lot and safely parked. The engine continued to smoke and all of the transmission fluid leaked onto the ground. We had the vehicle towed to our home and it now sits in our garage while we continue to pay for it and insure it.

I was driving my 2002 Mini on the freeway at 65 mph and I felt a sudden jolting and sensed a backward force impeding it from going forward. Luckily, it was night time and there weren't many cars, because my Mini stopped going forward and was merely running on momentum. The car got worse and started making a loud clunking sound from where the transmission sits and the car continued jolting not going forward as I barely had enough momentum to pull to the shoulder. After turning off the engine and checking that everything was fine by appearance (no oil leak, no blown gasket, etc), I restarted the car fine, but the car never again engaged into gear until I spent a whopping $7,000 to fix it. I would shift into d and the engine would rev, but the car stayed inert. The transmission is a closed system and when no harm is done to it and no fluid is not leaking, transmissions shouldn't pose any problems at considerably low miles (99k). I started researching on the possible problems with the transmission and sure enough, there was a long list of complaints on the faulty design. Next, I had to shop for mechanics. All the experienced Mini mechanics told me that BMW offered no replacement parts because of a patent the inventor had on the cvt design. I had to have the whole transmission replaced because there were no options BMW left for the consumer. It was either you pay $7,000 or your Mini will be scrapped and never run again. My mechanic was nice enough to chop open the transmission and saw that it was just a metal belt that drives the transmission that was broken. A simple belt that probably costs no more than $200 could have been replaced and a whole lot of consumer money could have been saved if the part was available to the us- not to mention the whole ordeal wouldn't be there if BMW had designed a reliable transmission in the first place, (ie use a regular automatic transmission instead of a cvt when the cvt has not be fully tested for its reliability).

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