Noise and MINI's solution
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Noise and MINI's solution
I have an 05 MCS I purchased on 12-31-04 and put the JCW kit on as part of the deal. I drove it for one day until I could get into service for the install and did not notice any noise. I picked the car up and drove it about five miles and took it right back because I heard a rattling noise while stopped with the clutch out. Needles to say they could not find anything wrong (go figure) even though the sevice rep heard it? The noise continued and got louder until at times it sounded like a helicopter was flying over the car but always stopped when you depressed the clutch. The sevice department now can hear it and asked MINI for a solution. The solution they say is installing an optimized fly wheel? (what ever that is). This part is being shipped over from Germany and is not on the parts list the dealer has so the rep can't tell me what it is. Any thoughts? I have some great comments for Hendrick Mini in Charlotte.
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That's "Sanitized for your protection". :smile:
No, seriously, you should ask Domonick (sp?) at Hendrick's. He works the service counter. He has always answered the strange questions I have asked in the past without flinching and seems to genuinely want to help.
(Sounds like the throw-out bearing to me, but I'm an OLD shade tree mechanic from way back with no experience with the new fangled cars on the road now...)
No, seriously, you should ask Domonick (sp?) at Hendrick's. He works the service counter. He has always answered the strange questions I have asked in the past without flinching and seems to genuinely want to help.
(Sounds like the throw-out bearing to me, but I'm an OLD shade tree mechanic from way back with no experience with the new fangled cars on the road now...)
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Sorry but Domonick is part of my problem, he heard the original noise and when the tech did not want to hear it he switched. After my JCW install and all that has happened since I have a real trust issue with Hendrick. I was pretty jazzed to have a local dealer, I had to buy my 03 in Greenville. Domonick said he ahs no idea how long it will take for my "optimized" fly wheel to get here.
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