Had a few Mini's myself, but traded mine in, June this year for a non-Mini, so taking a little break.
In the meantime I'm still on here as sister has a Countryman, and mum now has Paceman since May this year, after downsizing from her Freelander 2.
Anyway.....car came with the months warranty from the dealer, who at the time of Covid, brought the car to us from down south.
Within that first month the clutch 'went' on the car, we ended up getting it fixed and were told it was a 'design fault' on that Paceman, she is a 2016.
Cut a long story short.....mum was in hospital for a while so i ran the car for a couple of days to keep it ticking over. Car was purring away like a dream. Mum gets back home, this was towards end of October. I took the car a run again over a week ago, all good......ended up putting more petrol in it ......the first time it had the 'new' unleaded petrol.
Put the car back on mums driveway, no issues, as again car was running like a dream.
Get to last week, 10th October. I'm over seeing her and went to move the car, as sister was due over so wanted to give just a little bit more room on the driveway. The Paceman was turning over, but the engine wasnt starting.......this went on and on. Just not 'igniting' for want of a better term to get the engine to start. Strong smell of fuel as well.
In the end after trying to troubleshoot it we call the RAC.
They come out ......the guy looks over the car, connects diagnostic.....not telling him much. He was puzzled. Cleared what diagnostic it DID say which was very little, but still nothing. No change.
He says not to believe what you hear about no issues with the new fuel in general as they have been run off their feet since it was launched with different cars experiencing problems with it.
He takes out the igniion leads, and he spark plugs, cleans them up, starts the engine to clear the fuel from the engine as might be flooded. Puts everything back, and still....no change.
In the end says needs to go to a garage as hes as puzzled as anyone as to what the exact issue is. Builds up the towing apparatus from back of his van, the Paceman gets lifted up and takes it to local garage which is around 1-2 miles away.
I called the garage yesterday on mums behalf.......turns out they had a electrical guy come out to check it as well. What they say is "there has been water which has got into the footwell of the drivers side at some point, and been there long enough to corrode part of the electrical system which sends the signal to the engine to start and thats what the issue is". They are waiting on Mini getting back to them with the part.
I guess its a case of 'watch this space' as hopefully they will get back to us by end of the week.
Apologies for pics, no idea how to turn them before posting :(
