Gareth Corfield 11 September 2023 • 8:06pm. BMW has helped to jump start Britain’s stalling car industry with a £600m upgrade to its Mini factory in Oxford. The investment in the Cowley plant MINI TIMING CHAIN DEATH RATTLE FIX FOR MINI N12, N14, N16, N18 ENGINES. Mini R56 Timing Chain – The Mini R56 ‘Death Rattle’. Mini camchain (or Mini timing chains, same thing) can cause problems on MINIs fitted with the Prince N12, N14, N16 and N18 Engine. Unless it actually snaps it will not be covered by any warranty. 2316 posts · Joined 2016. #1 · Sep 21, 2017. DMF - Dual Mass Flywheel. Minis have these DMFs fitted, petrol and diesels. They are not the smartest of engineering design concepts unfortunately. For those who have heard about 'clutch problems', they are often actually flywheel problems. Here is a good short explanation, with a diagram, about GHEh. It’s all fine and well making your car faster in every conceivable way but not looking after it will have drastic effect if do not pick up faults/issues or keep to the service intervals. MINI UK recommends oil changes every 20,000 miles but I can’t iterate enough how idiotic this is move is as MINI USA recommend oil changes every 10,000 miles. CCroker. If you change oil regularly, timing wear should be at a minimum. I used to changed timing chains and gears in sets at 100K in my domestic V-8s. Now with the MINIs and newer method of building engines, I change oil every 6-7.5K intervals with the better oils and keep engine in tune and don't worry about it. The original in the premium segment of small cars has reached its 60th birthday – but it is even younger than ever. It was sixty years ago, to be precise on 26 August 1959, that British Motor Corporation (BMC) proudly revealed the result of their development activities in creating a new, revolutionary compact car. 1. Last modified on Sat 15 Oct 2022 10.54 EDT. BMW is to axe all UK production of the award-winning electric Mini and relocate it to China, dealing a major blow to hopes that Britain could be a Firstly, under the bonnet where, following American-Brazilian then French-supplied power, these Minis were the first to receive BMW’s own Twinpower turbocharged three- and four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines. Then there was the UKL1 chassis that was also all-new, more rigid and has since gone on to underpin BMW models such as the 2 Series

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