classic mini

Just to let you know that I never bought the little mini the old chap got it out to wash it for me to go and have look at and realized he couldn't sell it .
while his wife couldn't drive it she could be a passenger so they are going to use it for trips out in the summer.

I think that is the best ending possible, but I am a bit of a softie

you did the right thing mini's are prone to many problems I know I have owned six of them as well as the mini cooper, I would stick to my little mgtf and be happy knowing you can get it sorted out no matter what,:broon:

graham1 wrote: you did the right thing mini's are prone to many problems I know I have owned six of them as well as the mini cooper, I would stick to my little mgtf and be happy knowing you can get it sorted out no matter what,:broon:

Yes Minis do have problems but hell's teeth our Mini hasn't got the stupid bloody Pektron BCU to deal with unlike my TF which is driving me nuts . :rant:
John .

I know the frustration you must be going through, got my car back yesterday, start it today engine check light is on, it has never been on since I have owned the car, if I take it back he said he will reset the engine check light, what a B'''''''''sterd this is, more fuel and a trip for 2 mins on an obd reader, really pisses me off, so to say you are not on your own but hope you get it sorted out, life can really grind you down cant it :bang:

The thing is Graham , frustratingly I am a retired mechanic and I realised a long time ago that things were being taken to a level where cars were going to be so expensive to repair due to the complexity of electronic gadgetry. These electronics are great and quite reliable but once they go wrong are so expensive to diagnose and replace that they can render a good car uneconomic to fix . This part of the thread ties in with a thread I started last week regarding my TF and it's bloody Pektron BCU not being able to accept the EKA code that the pscan code reader is saying it should know ! I currently have only one working fob so the EKA is or should be the back up if the other fob goes to sleep . It's very frustrating . :nonod: Rant over !
John .

sorry to hear what your going through, have you looked on youtube there is a lot of information if you can find it, and I have been told it can be cheaper than you might think, you can not lose anything by searching and I wish you the best, my mgtf does not have the pectron thinggy behind the center console, it was only the early ones like the one you have.

I think you might be a bit adrift there Graham, MK1 fs have a Lucas system, tfs have Pektron.

sorry to disagree with you but mine has not got one and that comes from Abingdon mg center as I asked them before I bought it. also, I have had my center console out and it is an empty gap where the pectron sits just in front of the heater blower motor,

Airportable wrote: I think you might be a bit adrift there Graham, MK1 fs have a Lucas system, tfs have Pektron.

Lucas systems were used on all MGFs and early TFs, IIRC the pektron came in around 2003/4.

all I am saying is mine has not got one,

OOOps I am sorry & stand corrected. Empirical knowledge is gained by experience & although I have had experience of my f, tf & several other tfs, my opinion was that fs had the square Lucas key fob, where as the tfs had the round Pektron fob & wrongly assuming that all tfs had the Pektron MEMs system.
Head bowed & humbled. Mike.

apology accepted your a gentelman