Americans not happy with MINI reliability

[LuS1fer]

Seems that while BMW have recalled some BMW cars for duff fuel pumps, they don't see any need to address similar issues in the MINI which has led to a slip down the reliabilty rankings. Anyone here had these issues?

http://jalopnik.com/5673922/mini-owners-with-broke...

[Wadeski]

Americans tend to find more faults in their cars by equipping them with automatics and driving 40k a year with expectations of no maintenance.

[madala]

......40K per annum in a Mini!!.....oh what a joy....not.....I think you may be jesting a tadge.....

[Dracoro]

Are fuel pumps checked or affected by non-service anyway?

[fatboy b]

madala said:

......40K per annum in a Mini!!.....oh what a joy....not.....I think you may be jesting a tadge.....

Don't think he is. This is the nation that expects tyre (or is that tire?) life in excess of 50K miles.

[darkdrew]

I think you guys are exaggerating a bit.. but yeah everyone knows Mini's are only bought by girls and girly men so no surprise here

[Broken]

I heard about americans expecting to do the first service on the car at 100k miles.

[Dr JonboyG]

The sort of people who buy minis over here are mainly the sort of people who probably don't wait 40k miles to get serviced. Average mileage is also only 12k a year.

[CanadianScot]

Dr JonboyG said:

The sort of people who buy minis over here are mainly the sort of people who probably don't wait 40k miles to get serviced. Average mileage is also only 12k a year.

[900T-R]

madala said:

......40K per annum in a Mini!!.....oh what a joy....not.....I think you may be jesting a tadge.....

25-30K per annum in the Cooper here,with regular 8-900 mile day stints. Very comfortable, too - but then I an relatively uncomfortable in barges with overlight steering, vast, overstuffed seats and questionable body control - something with unconsciously registering/compensating for random movement that cannot be directly linked to an event (i.e. driving over a bump)...