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[MarkWhitham]

Re Mini Countryman Cooper D 2012 2.0 D AUTO (112HP)

 

My first post looking for help ? Ok its not a real Mini, but for 18K I expected a bit more.

 

Bought this for my wife in June its now just a year old with 7000 miles on.

 

Stupidly paid cash. Advertised fuel economy for the three cycles Urban 39mpg - Mixed 50mpg - Extra Urban 60mpg and I'm long enough in the tooth to know you wont get those figures but I expected 45mpg.

 

This car consistently worked out by calculation has never exceeded 35mpg. Now we drive with a light foot and the bulk of the driving is A Roads and motorway but over a tankful I cant get it above 35mpg.

 

Been back to the dealer Mini Spire Watford and they are not interested trying to fob me off and offered me £16k to buy the car back - dogs.

 

So before I lock horns with BMW any thoughts ?

 

I was going to get it chipped or remapped up to 143hp as per the Cooper SD - in the hope that is should help with 10% + on mpg

 

To put it into context I also have a Volvo XC90, 2 ton tank, 2.4 D5 and this averaged 41mpg across Ireland in the summer.

 

Thanks everyone

[ShaunaFTW]

Try here http://www.mini2.com/forum/

[jaydee]

According to this, you definately need to have it checked

http://www.mini2.com...ew-re-call.html

[MarkWhitham]

Thanks chaps will have a look - more suggestions welcomed.

[Badboytunes]

Get it remapped. The difference is amazing. Both with power and economy.

[MarkWhitham]

Get it remapped. The difference is amazing. Both with power and economy.

Thanks - when you say "re-mapped" do you mean chipped ? Any recommended companies for chipping/re-mapping etc because I aint losing 2500k so I'm happy to spend a monkey - nothing to lose.

[albo]

be careful if you chip or alter engine performance in any way from standard at this stage,,as i think you would loose your rights to any warranties you may have rights to .

[Badboytunes]

A remap is different from a " chip ". A remap is untraceable unless the dealer checked the map on the ecu. Have a chat with Will @ P-Torque. LINK. He knows his stuff and has done dome of our club cars. For example a member had a Cooper D ( R56 ) and it went up to 148bhp! A huge increase from 112 as standard. Fuel economy went up to nearly 70mpg in the real world too. Money well spent.

 

Tell him MINIS Unleashed sent you.

 

 

My partner had her R56 S re-mapped also. He had the common death rattle ( not connected to the re-map ) and also work done to the aux water pump. The engine had the chains ect changed and they were none the wiser. The tech that took it out even commented on how well it went  . That was sent back to MINI after the lease was up and they were none the wiser.

 

 

Cheers

Edited by Badboytunes, 13 September 2013 - 06:27 AM.

[MarkWhitham]

A remap is different from a " chip ". A remap is untraceable unless the dealer checked the map on the ecu. Have a chat with Will @ P-Torque. LINK. He knows his stuff and has done dome of our club cars. For example a member had a Cooper D ( R56 ) and it went up to 148bhp! A huge increase from 112 as standard. Fuel economy went up to nearly 70mpg in the real world too. Money well spent.

 

Tell him MINIS Unleashed sent you.

 

 

My partner had her R56 S re-mapped also. He had the common death rattle ( not connected to the re-map ) and also work done to the aux water pump. The engine had the chains ect changed and they were none the wiser. The tech that took it out even commented on how well it went  . That was sent back to MINI after the lease was up and they were none the wiser.

 

 

Cheers

You are very kind I shall get this done (if wife agrees...) 70mpg would be nice, bloody 45mpg would be a result ! Thanks.

[MarkWhitham]

be careful if you chip or alter engine performance in any way from standard at this stage,,as i think you would loose your rights to any warranties you may have rights to .

Thanks yes I had noted that from my research.

[MarkWhitham]

A remap is different from a " chip ". A remap is untraceable unless the dealer checked the map on the ecu. Have a chat with Will @ P-Torque. LINK. He knows his stuff and has done dome of our club cars. For example a member had a Cooper D ( R56 ) and it went up to 148bhp! A huge increase from 112 as standard. Fuel economy went up to nearly 70mpg in the real world too. Money well spent.

 

Tell him MINIS Unleashed sent you.

 

 

My partner had her R56 S re-mapped also. He had the common death rattle ( not connected to the re-map ) and also work done to the aux water pump. The engine had the chains ect changed and they were none the wiser. The tech that took it out even commented on how well it went  . That was sent back to MINI after the lease was up and they were none the wiser.

 

 

Cheers

Been in touch - they cant crack the Mini2 encryption !! I told him you sent me, code will be cracked in a month - thanks.

[Badboytunes]

Thats a shame, perhaps the BMW 2.0d has a different software set up compared to the Pug 1.6d engine.

 

keep us posted

 

 

Cheers

[Carlos W]

What length journeys are you doing?

Give it a good thrash and keep the rpm above 2500 for 20 mins to allow the dpf to get hot and regenerate

[MarkWhitham]

What length journeys are you doing?

Give it a good thrash and keep the rpm above 2500 for 20 mins to allow the dpf to get hot and regenerate

It does 50 miles down motorway most days should be enough - thanks though.

[sonikk4]

Who's fuel are using?? supermarket or mainstream??

 

I know its not a MINI but my old B5.5 Passat TDI used to return 52 mpg with ease on mainstream fuel. However we then started to use Tesco's Diesel and the difference was nearly 7 mpg less. I then went onto Morrisons and it improved back to the original figure.

 

Now i'm running a 170 bhp B6 Passat TDI estate and all of the supermarket diesel fuels are pretty poor when it comes to economy (average of 42 mpg). My friends BMW 120 TDI is running 3 to 4 mpg less than when he used mainstream garage fuel. Hes gone from 47 mpg+ down to 44 mpg. (sainsbury)