My R56 Cooper S has been produced on Dec. 5th. It should have been deliverd in the week before christmas … would have been a nice christmas gift for me.

Hope they get that fuel pumps fixed quickly.

Makes sense to me… The news hit MF a bit slow this has been known on MINI2 for a while and a lot of members on MINI2 are reporting that they are receiving there MINI’s during the New Year so it shouldnt be an issue in the US since most of our production didn’t kick in until after this incident was fixed..

Yes this shouldn’t affect US production. And like many out there we’ve known about this for a few weeks but never had it confirmed from internal sources as the actual problem until a few days ago (due to the holidays).

” I can confirm that through MINI’s ongoing and thorough testing processes it was recently discovered that a batch of fuel pumps fitted to some of new MINI Cooper S models was faulty. This issue has now been rectified and production is back to normal at Plant Oxford. Most of the affected MINIs in the UK were either held at Plant Oxford or at MINI dealerships and are being rectified.

All our investigations suggest that performance and safety are not affected. MINI apologises for this inconvenience at a time when demand and expectations for the new model are so high.

I trust that this information is useful to you. “

Someone isn’t telling the truth here….. Hope to find out the situation when my dealer is back to work in Jan.

Have you heard of any other delays as far as specific options or packages go? I’ve been told the Audio package is being pushed back as well, and HyperSport is now summer 07. Is anything else looming out there?

I agree with driverphil, we don’t know what the cause of the problem is… could be faulty parts, minor manufacturing errors (disconcerting), major manufacturing booboo (let’s hope not), or it could be design flaw (ooo, I really hope not).

On the other hand, I’m not sure when my baby is arriving — my dealer only said March… I figure east coast always get things before west coast — they only have to cross the pond. For those of us on the west coast, delivery has to either trek through the continent or go south of the border before final arrival.

Rectification, as it was known in the bad old BL days when a fair portion of “finished” product had actually never left the factory floor and was being re-”finished” at considerable extra cost to the bottom line, was what helped doom the British car industry, to say nothing of the not-so-minor oopsies that some of the early owners were subjected to – always nice to have the floor plates welded right way round, and such. Wonderful to see a pro-active system catching the glitches before they were, say, brewing up on the roadside. Carry on, lads.

BCNU, Rob in Dago