R55 Cooper S

R55 Cooper S

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scrw.

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2,602 posts

189 months

Friday 17th September 2021
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GaryF said:
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Are you doing the belt line too? It's a little fiddly, but juding by your skillset it will not be a problem smile

Gratuitous I know, but all chrome must go :-


Hope you get the heated seats going before the colder weather.
Did you do the headlight internals yourself or are they factory?

Tried the beltline for about 2 mins before getting annoyed, will look at it again.

rigga

8,727 posts

200 months

Friday 17th September 2021
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Do the beltline green, to match the mirrors ......


Went red on mine, black is so boring.......

CoolHands

18,496 posts

194 months

Friday 17th September 2021
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Your tax is out of date

GaryF

970 posts

252 months

Saturday 18th September 2021
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scrw. said:
Did you do the headlight internals yourself or are they factory?

Tried the beltline for about 2 mins before getting annoyed, will look at it again.
Headlighs are factory (there is some chrome in there and on the rears, but looks ok).

Belt line is best done in the warmth and then wamed over and massaged a bit with a hairdryer. Your technique improves as you go along. Though I will admite, it's not a task that I would look forward to doing again!

scrw.

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189 months

Monday 18th October 2021
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Well after spending a few months hoping the leak would show itself I have pulled the trigger on a gen Mini 'stat housing and crossover pipe. I am sure it is weeping around the crossover to 'stat joint, just cannot see anything and only get a wiff of coolant after some spirited driving. Given the problem child this thing is i expect it still to have a leak after I change them out.

rigga

8,727 posts

200 months

Tuesday 19th October 2021
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My stat housing was split, but only really noticeable when hot and it expanded, and leaked coolant, in fact when removed and inspected, you couldn't really see where there was an issue, aside from a mark on the housing, tube was replaced at same time as they become brittle and fall apart when replacing the stat housing.

scrw.

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189 months

Sunday 14th November 2021
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Right, finger was pulled out last night and spannering was done

20211113_203720 by Old_Chad, on Flickr

Unbolting the inlet manifold makes it much easier to see what you are doing when you refit the crossover pipe, no need to disconnect the TB etc, you can push it back enough to see with everything still attached

20211113_191628 by Old_Chad, on Flickr

And the culprit of the wiff of coolant!!
20211113_184856 by Old_Chad, on Flickr

Just after taking this photo the seal fell off, was split into 2 but held together in the back of the water pump. I swapped the thermostat at the same time, both genuine mini items this time. I did get a crossover pipe from Neo's but they sent out the generic PSA pipe which has an extra fitting on, wasn't going to use that one.
|New seal was uber lubed going into the back of the water pump, although I did last time I fitted it with the inlet manifold on so may not have got the pipe in square. If you are doing this yourself drop the manifold off, it is 5 extra nuts to take off but makes life so much easier.

Edited by scrw. on Sunday 14th November 15:07

scrw.

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189 months

Friday 19th November 2021
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CoolHands said:
I found this in someone's notes for adding heated seats: edit actually iis the same as already written on page 14

Add all the hardware, then afterwards add $494 to the VO (CAS and FRM), and then default FRM, CAS, SPEG and IHKA
What do people mean by default the modules? I am assuming the "SG-Codieren" job??

http://blog.obdii365.com/2015/05/18/reset-bmw-ecu-...

scrw.

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189 months

Friday 19th November 2021
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Right, I think I have out of date Daten files for NCS expert, just downloading the latest ones. I did manage to trash the KOMBI ecu just now, top tip, Bimmercode has an ECU recovery mode to get you out of jail!

R55 thinks its a coupe!
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No longer a Coupe nerd

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scrw.

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2,602 posts

189 months

Monday 22nd November 2021
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Problem child scrubs up okay
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scrw.

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189 months

Friday 26th November 2021
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So the money pit passed its MOT today with no advisories, as it bloody should!

Also noticed that I have seemed to have lost all puddle lights in the doors, cannot seem to find anything in Bimmercode to enable them though.

scrw.

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189 months

Thursday 30th December 2021
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Job I have been debating over for a while, rear seats are MCS, fronts are JCW, so miss match on the piping....it was either get the seat piping replaced (£££) or colour it (£15), going with the colour it option! Will take a while to do as it needs 3 coats to match the front seats, but another week off work so will crack on...picture below its still wet so not an ideal colour match, and just a test on a none visible bit of piping.

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scrw.

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189 months

Friday 31st December 2021
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Went better than expected.

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Hyde

514 posts

147 months

Saturday 1st January 2022
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Wow the colour change from white to red looks really well!


rigga

8,727 posts

200 months

Saturday 1st January 2022
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That's actually really good, have never been happy with my white interior bits, have thought about swapping them out for a red set, but the white piping on my seats would obviously then look odd.

That's food for thought.

scrw.

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Saturday 1st January 2022
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All back in, the new colour is a tiny bit darker, not much, and not noticeable unless you look really closely.

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scrw.

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2,602 posts

189 months

Tuesday 22nd March 2022
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service time. 6k miles & 12months, engine was getting noisier than it should on startup (I am paranoid on engine noises however) Not impressed with 5-40 Mobil oil. Now has Morris 5-40 in it, back to being as quiet as an N14 can be.
2022-03-19_05-18-36 by Old_Chad, on Flickr


drgoatboy

1,611 posts

206 months

Monday 2nd May 2022
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scrw. said:
service time. 6k miles & 12months, engine was getting noisier than it should on startup (I am paranoid on engine noises however) Not impressed with 5-40 Mobil oil. Now has Morris 5-40 in it, back to being as quiet as an N14 can be.
2022-03-19_05-18-36 by Old_Chad, on Flickr
That is pretty black for 6k miles isn't it. Nice and simple to change on the n14 though.

They really are noisy clattery lumps aren't they. If I have not driven it for a while I always get a surprise when I hear it. It's takes a minute to adjust to the din...


scrw.

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Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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The problem child has thrown an error in a sulk for being parked up for 3 weeks without use! I now have a 93AC code for the drivers front side airbag. I did hope charging the battery and resetting the ABCU & BCU would sort it but it didn't, time to hit google.
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Challo

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154 months

Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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drgoatboy said:
scrw. said:
service time. 6k miles & 12months, engine was getting noisier than it should on startup (I am paranoid on engine noises however) Not impressed with 5-40 Mobil oil. Now has Morris 5-40 in it, back to being as quiet as an N14 can be.
2022-03-19_05-18-36 by Old_Chad, on Flickr
That is pretty black for 6k miles isn't it. Nice and simple to change on the n14 though.

They really are noisy clattery lumps aren't they. If I have not driven it for a while I always get a surprise when I hear it. It's takes a minute to adjust to the din...
I need to service mine and will go for 5W 40 next time. Mines a little noisy but I think it’s normal.