Bush failure at 14k miles - causes?

[Fun Bus]

My GF's Father has a 2009/59 Cooper and has just had the bushes replaced at 14k miles. This seems unusual and he's interested to know what could have caused them to fail so soon?

He's also said the tyre pressures are at 55psi? Is this right on run-flats which I'm sure it has?

Any advice appreciated.

[Mr Gearchange]

55psi?

I bet that thing handles like a pig-on-stilts with on a cold wet road, with runflats with 55PSi in them.
And whilst I'm not an engineer I would imagine that having rock hard tyres blown up to 55psi ain't doing the bushes any favours.

Edited by Mr Gearchange on Friday 17th December 11:52

[Fun Bus]

My thoughts too. I'm sure I've interpreted him correctly - I'll confirm though. If not the case are the bushes a known weakness on the Mini?

[RKDE]

The mini bushes on all the models don't last long. I split a set after 300 miles, the stock jobs just don't last, changed to poly bushes and it stopped the problem