R56 Mini Cooper S Cold Start Noise Update
April 18th, 2008
Following my initial Mini Cooper S cold start noise article, more information has come available. On Mini2, NAM and the Dutch New Mini Club a large number of drivers have reported the problem. Most of them have reported the problem at their dealer but got mixed replies, some dealers replaced a number of parts and even complete engines, other dealers simply stated that the sound belongs to the car, which should be totally unacceptable. Even with many parts replaced and new engines fitted the problem keeps coming back. The first Clubman S drivers also start to report the problem so it’s more widespread than the R56 Cooper S.
The Dutch New Mini Club has setup a form where Dutch Mini owners that experience the noise can add their R56 to the list. This list will be presented to Mini so they hopefully put some effort in to work out a solution for the cold start noise problem.
Another video of the noise:
Entry Filed under: Mini Cooper S R56 Problems
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1. cyromax | June 12th, 2008 at 8:56 am
hey there!
is there another vid of the noise available???
2. lipton-ice_g | October 13th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I got an R56 a few weeks ago and when I first got it, it would make this noise when starting up cold. I also had problems with starting in general: my car would often fire up and then die down and stall. I took it to the dealership and (I apologise for the lack of technicality) they did some work on it. They said the problem was that the timing chain has a pulley which tensions it. This pulley is oil pressurised however, so when starting the car the engine oil had to work up to this pulley before the chain was tensioned properly. They solved this by installing a replacement part with a larger bore hole to allow the oil to reach this pulley to pressurise the timing chain. When I got my car back, this hadn’t solved the starting issue, but it did get rid of this noise on cold start up!! They since found out that the starting problem was the fuel pump.
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