Cooper S Engine Clean.
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Hi all
The wife has just bought a 2011 Cooper S and the engine management light has come on a few times (it goes out after a while). I took it across to my local garage and they diagnosed that it needs an engine decoke. They mentioned about this walnut decoking which when I Google it it seems not many people do it or not in my area anyway.
Is it worth doing or are the other cleaning options like Terraclean worth a go? I'd rather try this than having the engine taken apart as one independant said that would run to 4 figures!
The wife has just bought a 2011 Cooper S and the engine management light has come on a few times (it goes out after a while). I took it across to my local garage and they diagnosed that it needs an engine decoke. They mentioned about this walnut decoking which when I Google it it seems not many people do it or not in my area anyway.
Is it worth doing or are the other cleaning options like Terraclean worth a go? I'd rather try this than having the engine taken apart as one independant said that would run to 4 figures!
I'm in Northamptonshire, close to Bedford who do do it I've found this afternoon. £350 all in and £96 if I want them to diagnose it again.
The diagnosis I got from my local garage was super knocking on cylinder 4 so pretty sure it needs the clean although I have seen mention of the HPFP and timing chain issues causing this super knocking?
The diagnosis I got from my local garage was super knocking on cylinder 4 so pretty sure it needs the clean although I have seen mention of the HPFP and timing chain issues causing this super knocking?
Yeah I found them pretty much straight away. Is at least a 2 hour trip for me though and if you want the full service it's £350 same as the Mini garage in Bedford. Not sure you get the same bits included at the Mini garage but it's only 20 minutes away.
I still need to find out if we can do this as a warranty claim with the garage we bought the car from? We've only had it 6 or 7 weeks and got the standard 3 month warranty.
I still need to find out if we can do this as a warranty claim with the garage we bought the car from? We've only had it 6 or 7 weeks and got the standard 3 month warranty.
So just had the call from Mini and it appears not to be an engine decoke that's needed after all. They said it needs a new thermostat and HPFP at £230 and just over £900 repectively!
After just paying out £1000 for a couple of sensors on my BMW, I'm wondering what the hell you pay a premium for these cars for?!?
I won't be getting Mini to do the work as I'm sure it can be done for a lot less than that but have to see if this will be covered by the garage we bought it from first.
After just paying out £1000 for a couple of sensors on my BMW, I'm wondering what the hell you pay a premium for these cars for?!?
I won't be getting Mini to do the work as I'm sure it can be done for a lot less than that but have to see if this will be covered by the garage we bought it from first.
Yeah very frustrating. If the car was a few years older they may have done n on an extended warranty. They gave me an estimate for the work along with other bits that came out of the safety inspection and it came to a mind boggling £2700!!!
More frustrating is that when I picked the car up, they'd buggered the trim on the hand brake lever and weren't going to tell me! They said they'd have to check it wasn't noted down as being broken when I left it but it bloody wasn't!
More frustrating is that when I picked the car up, they'd buggered the trim on the hand brake lever and weren't going to tell me! They said they'd have to check it wasn't noted down as being broken when I left it but it bloody wasn't!
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