Hello from Aberdeenshire oldie

[Camshaft]

Hello Folks,
I recently bought a 2014 Mini Cooper Diesel F56 with a blown engine, it had supposedly sucked in a gulp of water. it did run of sorts but terribly rough anyhow I bought a really low mileage (18K) miles replacement engine complete with turbo. Although it had only done 18K miles I decided to renew the top timing chain and tensioners.
Its all back together now and running :thumbs up: but what a load of work. No wonder few people want to work on them and I used to think that the old original Minis were bad to work on but these new ones are another dimension ;)

I've also renewed all four discs and pads that was straight forward enough.
Not sure about the condition of the daft tyre pressure monitors as I've not yet run the car.

One job I still need to do is replace the soft foam type sunroof perimeter seal and I was wondering if anyone here on the forum had done this ? Any advice on the job would be greatly appreciated. As far as I know the roof does not leak its just the outer foam that's been pecked at in places by crows the blighters, 12 bore now at the ready:D

[badwolf340]

Never actually heard of anyone replacing that part ,any pictures of how it fits ?good to hear that it’s all up and running after it’s replacement engine :thumbs up:

[MINI William]

Welcome to NMS. Again never heard anything abort the foam section being replaced

[Camshaft]

Welcome to NMS. Again never heard anything abort the foam section being replaced

Thanks for your reply fellows. :thumbs up:

Can't say I would be surprised if no one here has had to replace this rear section sunroof foam type rubber surround.
So far I haven't had a close look yet to see how to go about replacing it but no doubt it won't be a nice job to do. :scratch: Should any readers here have had to do this replacement job then I'd be very interested to hear how they went about it.

I guess I could possibly cut-out and splice-in new sections in the places that the nasty birdies pecked out. :idea: