My Poor Sick Mini >>
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12-14-2002 | 05:42 PM
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Have you ever been hit in the face really hard? I have, a couple of times.
The first it happens it is stunning. The pain is intense and the shock seems overwhelming. The next time it happens you know that the pain will abate and the shock is less -- shocking. Ask any boxer.
The first time I brought my brand new Mini back to the dealer (Mini of Manhattan) I was shocked. How could my new car buck, stall and let me down in the middle of nowhere? After a repair job which took two weeks, I was not that shocked when the same problem reoccured 4 days later, more severely.
This time Mini called in the brain-trust. A transmission expert from Belgium examined the car, sent the computer to Jersey for flash programming, and then pronounced the car OK.
Two days later, Friday the 13th (of course) of Dec, on my way to work, eastbound on the Grand Central Parkway, the car started bucking like it was being driven by someone who didn't know how to drive a stick. Not good when the car has automatic transmission (CVT). I managed to get off the highway and head into Manhattan to the sounds of ohter drivers yelling at me. I had to rev the engine over 3000 RPM just to go 20 MPH.
All the while, I was strangly calm. Mini of Manhattan had taken their best shots at me and I was still standing! Leaning a bit on the ropes, perhaps, but standing nontheless.
So, I'm driving my 3rd rental car in six weeks. A GrandAm this time. Not a Mini but at least it runs.
According to the NYS Lemon Law Mini is still entitled to one more attempt and/or one more week to fix the car before they must take it back. I hope Mini will not put me through another useless try to fix the car. The stress or knowing your car may not get you home, the runined plans, the sheer inconvenience of it all is intolerable. Not to mention putting my safety in jeopardy. Who needs a car that dies in 70 MPH traffic?
May your luck be better than mine.
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The first it happens it is stunning. The pain is intense and the shock seems overwhelming. The next time it happens you know that the pain will abate and the shock is less -- shocking. Ask any boxer.
The first time I brought my brand new Mini back to the dealer (Mini of Manhattan) I was shocked. How could my new car buck, stall and let me down in the middle of nowhere? After a repair job which took two weeks, I was not that shocked when the same problem reoccured 4 days later, more severely.
This time Mini called in the brain-trust. A transmission expert from Belgium examined the car, sent the computer to Jersey for flash programming, and then pronounced the car OK.
Two days later, Friday the 13th (of course) of Dec, on my way to work, eastbound on the Grand Central Parkway, the car started bucking like it was being driven by someone who didn't know how to drive a stick. Not good when the car has automatic transmission (CVT). I managed to get off the highway and head into Manhattan to the sounds of ohter drivers yelling at me. I had to rev the engine over 3000 RPM just to go 20 MPH.
All the while, I was strangly calm. Mini of Manhattan had taken their best shots at me and I was still standing! Leaning a bit on the ropes, perhaps, but standing nontheless.
So, I'm driving my 3rd rental car in six weeks. A GrandAm this time. Not a Mini but at least it runs.
According to the NYS Lemon Law Mini is still entitled to one more attempt and/or one more week to fix the car before they must take it back. I hope Mini will not put me through another useless try to fix the car. The stress or knowing your car may not get you home, the runined plans, the sheer inconvenience of it all is intolerable. Not to mention putting my safety in jeopardy. Who needs a car that dies in 70 MPH traffic?
May your luck be better than mine.
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