The vehicle was at a stop when the brake was released it lunged forward into oncoming traffic. Another time in driveway veh was bought to a stop in our driveway to turn around. The brake pedal was released and the car lunged into a wall and the tires continued to spin until brakes were heavily applied
Engine & cooling
2017 Mini Cooper Engine problems
Owners have filed 2 complaints about the 2017 Mini Cooper's engine & cooling with NHTSA - 11% of all its complaints, most recently on November 13, 2019. They describe 1 crash, 0 fires and 0 injuries. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.
- Complaints
- 2
- Recalls
- 0
- Crashes
- 1
- Fires
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Deaths
- 0
Engine complaints
While my wife was driving the 8-day-old countryman s on a parkway at highway speed, a pebble was apparently kicked back from a vehicle ahead, causing a piercing of the radiator and a virtual immediate inability to drive. This created a significant safety hazard. The issue is not the pebble itself, but rather the fact that, as we learned from the mechanic, there is no protective cover or screen over the front of the radiator to prevent such an event from causing severe damage to the radiator. This is a brand new...
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model of countryman, and it appears, at least as compared with a 2017 clubman, that the radiator is not fully hidden behind the front end, but is, instead, exposed to a projectile hazard.
Mini Cooper engine complaints by year
Cooper engine problems, every yearSource: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) complaints and recalls, checked . Complaints are owners' own reports and are not verified. How we use the data