6 May 2011 - Filed under: Servicing
MOT – used the local council run test centre. Tester seemed rather taken with the MINI having never tested one before. Passed with no advisories.
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Second MOT at 30,670 miles
Second Service at 30,400 miles
20 April 2011 - Filed under: Servicing
Second service, required due to age rather than mileage. Along with the second brake fluid change. Service was covered by the TLC package, brake fluid wasn’t. Although at £56 Oxford MINI were nearly half the price of the BMW dealership I visited for a new tyre earlier in the month. Was given a Cooper D [...]
46mpg and a new tyre at 30,000 miles
2 April 2011 - Filed under: Servicing
I’ve never really cared too much about MPG, even with soaring fuel prices my mileage in the MINI is sufficiently low that I don’t really spend that much time at the pumps. I hadn’t reset the trip MPG computer since I purchased the car and it had read a fairly average figure of 37mpg for [...]
Winter Screenwash at 28,500
miles
8 January 2011 - Filed under: Servicing
The UK suffered quite a cold spell over Christmas, the MINI coped quite well with the exception of the screenwash. But that was more my fault, here are a few things I learnt after a salty 160 mile drive where the temperature never exceeded -12c… Cheap supermarket screenwash, even when used neat and supposedly good [...]
DIY Rear Brake Pads at 27,900
miles
20 December 2010 - Filed under: Servicing
The process of changing the rear brake pads on the R56 is similar to swapping the fronts with the added complication of the handbrake bowden cable and the requirement for a caliper rewind tool to retract the piston. I didn’t swap the discs this time as they still seemed quite healthy. The TIS instructions cover [...]
Tyre at 27,900 miles
26 November 2010 - Filed under: Servicing
Currently sat in Oxford BMW waiting for a new front tyre to be fitted to the MINI. They price matched to within a few pounds of the best online price I could find, although at £130 for a 195/55/16 Dunlop SP Sport 01 runflat it’s still not a cheap bill. Oxford BMW appear to employ [...]
Oil at 27,800 miles
28 October 2010 - Filed under: Servicing
The MINI has consumed a small amount of oil since it was serviced for the first time back in April 2009. Due to the use of ‘long life’ oil the service intervals are set at 20,000 miles on the R56, so it’s going to be quite a while before it sees a change of oil. [...]
25,000 miles at 25,000 miles
1 June 2010 - Filed under: Servicing
Ticked over 25,000 miles the other day, it’s been quite a long time coming now that I’ve moved closer to work. Thankfully the warning light was only because I was running low on fuel!
First MOT at 23,700 miles
17 April 2010 - Filed under: Servicing
The MINI will be 3 years old at the start of May which means it required its first MOT (Ministry of Transport test) to test that it’s still road worthy to drive on UK roads. I booked it into Carringtons of Oxford, partially because I’d heard good things about their workshop but also because I’d [...]
Winter at 22,500 miles
Winter hasn’t exactly been kind on the UK this year, we rarely seem to have risen above freezing and there’s been more snow on the ground than I’ve ever experienced whilst I’ve been driving in this country. I’m quite lucky in that I don’t have to rely on a car to get to work, so [...]
