BMW and MINI have issued a recall affecting just over 1,500 vehicles in the U.S., including select 2025–2026 MINI Cooper, Convertible, and Countryman models. The issue stems from front seat belt retractors...
MINI is recalling over 10,000 electric F56 based MINI Cooper SEs in the United States due to a fairly alarming manufacturing issue. The defect involves the battery and could lead to a...
In an expansive move, MINI USA has issued a recall affecting a broad range of vehicles sold or registered in multiple states and jurisdictions across the United States. The recall is intended...
Last week the first letters from MINI USA went out to Cooper S owners extending the warranty on their turbos for 10 years or 120,000 miles. It’s both a generous move by MINI USA and one that was sorely needed. But there’s a lot of conflicting information and plenty of confusion for owners or even would be owners of these MINIs. So we have created the MotoringFile MINI Cooper S Turbo FAQ to bring together all the information in one place to give you a place get your questions answered and some insight into what to worry about and what to not.
MINI USA has just announced internally that they will be recalling approximately 16,900 model year 2016-2017 MINI Clubman (produced from Start-of- Production (October 2015) through March 2017. The issue involved brake lamps...
The R50/R53 generation of MINIs have been acclaimed from day one for their performance. But build quality and mechanical issues continue to plague the cars. This latest recall is dealing with a...
The Detroit News believes that may be the case. An NHTSA spokesperson is quoted as saying: >”NHTSA is concerned that BMW was aware or should have been aware of the non-compliance with...
Official Statement: BMW recently has informed NHTSA of the company’s intention to expand a previous safety recall filed in December 2014 to include additional Model Year 2014-2015 MINI Hardtop 2 Door Cooper...
We just learned that MINI USA is moving forward with a recall campaign for **3,679** 2014 2-door Hardtops over side impact performance requirements for the rear passenger seat.
Hot off the presses the NHTSA & MINIUSA have issued a recall for certain F56 MINIs. Details after the break.
MINI USA has had a minimal number of recalls since their entry into the US market (especially when compared to the other manufacturers recently) but we do have one new recall to...
We don’t have much information on this one yet but here what we do know. Several MF readers have been asked to return their newly bought Cooper D to the dealer due...