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Some Kind of Service Alert - 2014 Mini Cooper Hardtop Long-Term Road Test
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Some Kind of Service Alert - 2014 Mini Cooper Hardtop Long-Term Road Test
Edmunds conducts a long-term test of a 2014 Mini Cooper and finds that it gave an alert for drivetrain service that was curiously non-specific.
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But I have a hard time accepting this in a vehicle that clearly is capable of so much more - in what possible way does it serve the owner to NOT have more information? Is Mini trying to not "bother" the driver with the facts? I don't like it and it makes me wonder what other ideas they put into the car to "help" me.
As I said, the BMW/MINI German to English translator should be fired...
I now own an OBD reader & phone app, but only because the alternative is so infuriating: California is the ONLY state where it is illegal for a store like Autozone to read your code for free. And when I had my car at the dealer for an oil change, I asked them to read a code for me, and they said I would need to schedule a separate appointment for that! This was when the car was sitting in their bay! SMH. (I gave them a nasty write-up in the follow-up survey.)