Hi folks,
Just ventured into Mini ownership after three years driving a Fiat Panda 1.1 and yes, it was painful! I've had a few 'interesting' cars over the years but children and mortgages have conspired against me until last week. I'm a 40 yr old British helicopter pilot, work flying workers out to the oil rigs in the North Sea and the military for 17 years before that. Anyway, just bought a 2012 Cooper S with a shed load of options.....love it!
Hope you like the piccie, she's fully loaded with full leather, Harman Kardon, metallic paint, heated seats and front windscreen, TLC, etc etc I think she came to well over £24k new just over a year ago and I'm her 3rd owner. Rather strange but first owner was for 10 months and the second for only 8, however I'm a (foolish) trusting soul so I'm confident she's a good 'un. She is pretty much immaculate, feels tight and brand new and only done 8k miles and is an absolute hoot to drive, even the kids love her! Only minor problem I've had sofar is a tappety type rattle at low rpms hot and cold, doesn't sound like the death rattle at all and from what I've read it is likely normal. Anyway, any advice please shoot away as I can take her back to the Mini dealer easily enough.
Thanks for reading,
Siko
Just ventured into Mini ownership after three years driving a Fiat Panda 1.1 and yes, it was painful! I've had a few 'interesting' cars over the years but children and mortgages have conspired against me until last week. I'm a 40 yr old British helicopter pilot, work flying workers out to the oil rigs in the North Sea and the military for 17 years before that. Anyway, just bought a 2012 Cooper S with a shed load of options.....love it!
Hope you like the piccie, she's fully loaded with full leather, Harman Kardon, metallic paint, heated seats and front windscreen, TLC, etc etc I think she came to well over £24k new just over a year ago and I'm her 3rd owner. Rather strange but first owner was for 10 months and the second for only 8, however I'm a (foolish) trusting soul so I'm confident she's a good 'un. She is pretty much immaculate, feels tight and brand new and only done 8k miles and is an absolute hoot to drive, even the kids love her! Only minor problem I've had sofar is a tappety type rattle at low rpms hot and cold, doesn't sound like the death rattle at all and from what I've read it is likely normal. Anyway, any advice please shoot away as I can take her back to the Mini dealer easily enough.
Thanks for reading,
Siko