R56 Mini Cooper S engine rattle

This is what my engine now sound's like all the time after BMW Mini installed a new timing chain tensioner, great job BMW.... NOT!!!

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• R56
• Mini Cooper S
• engine rattle
• problems

[Paulandtara1999]

Dear 2009CooperS, Hope you don't have the Death Rattle. But we had so many problems with the car, that we sold it in September 2010. It was a pile of crap, maybe the worst car I've ever owned?!!!!

[Paulandtara1999]

I've sold the car now, had enough of it as I've had so many major problems with the car in less than three years. If you are thinking about buying an R56 Cooper S, do yourself a massive favour and don't buy one. The build quality is crap, it has a crap engine, the paint quality is crap, Mini Warranty is crap and so is Mini Service. In my opinion, the R56 Cooper S is a cheaply produced, badly put together car. DON"T BUY ONE!!!

[Paulandtara1999]

Why the question mark? It's still early days after BMW fitted the latest timing chain tensioner hydraulic piston. So far the death rattle has not returned and the chain does not rattle now. However, time will be the judge to see if BMW have actually got it right this time as previous redesigned ttt's have failed after a varied amount of time.

[Paulandtara1999]

BMW have now installed the latest, longer type of timing chain tensioner and this appears to have fixed the problem?

[stillthewhizz]

Sounds like a chugging old diesel. Come on £35k on a MINI? Are you mad?

[Paulandtara1999]

The car cost just under £25,000. I've still got it, I just don't use it very often now.

[lisaking22]

@urbex2007 Even though you're technically correct about the use of "brought", do you really feel better about yourself now that you've pointed out a minor flaw in the grammar of a non-native English speaker? This is a car video. There's no need to be so hostile. All MINI's aren't bad cars and even if they were, why are you bothered that someone else has spent THEIR money on one?

[sladevi]

@urbex2007 Oh and, like eamesification said, some people have more important things to do than learn English. Like learn a different language -- or learn 4 different languages.

[sladevi]

@urbex2007 wow, that was an amazingly stupid comment about the tenses. "brought" and "took" are both simple past tense of different verbs -- both words work in that case (try looking it up!). "I brought it in for service" is perfectly valid English. Note that when you say "did not" the verb is "do", thus you need to use the infinitive form of the second verb, e.g. "You did not take it in", which is why your examples of "You did not brought it in" didn't sound right -- you were doing it wrong.

[eamesification]

@urbex2007 Sorry, English isn’t my native language. But hey, I’m sure you are fluent in four different languages, so feel free to pick a different one and I shall translate my comment so that you too can understand what I was trying to convey.

[urbex2007]

@eamesification You didn't "brought" it in for a service - you "took" it in for a service. Learn the difference between tenses. You took the car to a garage, you did not brought it to the garage. I do hope you can see the difference. Don't say it as if you are in the garage, tell us what you did in past tense. I really hate people who can not speak English correctly. It's so lazy and shows a lack of intelligence, which might explain the choice of car. You wasted your money buying a MINI.

[urbex2007]

You must be stupid to pay that much for a mini - you could have bought a decent car for that. Never buy a car with known problems. Do some research FIRST and save your money.

[Digito2588]

wll, don´t know how to paste another youtube video. Search

"EP6_GDI_Distribution_8_mars_0­002.wmv" and thats it

[Digito2588]

This is THE solution for ALL the THP PSA-BMW engines.

Record this video, bring it to your official Mini-Peugeot-Citroen dealer and tell them to fix it THIS way. Is the internal Peugeot video for dealers.

[Digito2588]

Tipical failure from thp psa bmw engines, all thp do the same, crap engine, like someone saids here, there is a new tensioner and crankcase pulley and some other things that seems to fix it...

[amsmith1221]

I just joined the latest list of timing chain victims.