MINI Cooper (R55, R56, R57) 2007-2011 - Radiator support service position placement - DIY Repair

[@mewiththeface6717]

Thank you so much for this video, Haynes is black and white, and when I put her back together I had two extra bolts this helped me pinpoint where I messed up and fix it... Thank you thank you thank you

[@CCROSS5882]

can you remove the transmission in this mode? maybe having to loosen the sub frame bolts to let it down a bit? Thank you nice video

[@Neptune8]

Seems like a lot of work , thanks for the video

[@georgetudor1767]

a link of the tool used would be very useful. I already bought the service manual. I have an mini cooper R56 N14 engine. Thank you!

[@AlexAlekseyev]

A lot of inconsistencies between this video and the repair manual. Also, various steps are omitted, and various other steps are unnecessary. But in the end, the video combined with the repair manual does get the job done.

[@jrgs906]

It's amazing how this differs from your service manual book. You forgot the part about removing the bumper mounting bolts from the boby (in the service manual). Also your steps differed from this video. Any reason why?

[@ansonivan]

Nicely done folks.

[@Deltanova93]

thanks for the video!

[@bliglum]

Dude's voice is so soothing -_-

[@ModMINI]

Way easier to do this on an R53. R56 engineers, what were you thinking? :-)

[@nickmacker5683]

why not take the bumper off to avoid messing around with all that trim and stuff, then do the service position. Would that work?

[@joeyjacildone4500]

very nice, and understanding.

[@TheSweetlows]

Great video. Thanks.

[@jrgs906]

Just did it today. took about 4 hours and we were following the service manual with missing steps and not using some special tools. It's actually not that bad though, just time consuming.

[@pritishmusic]

Could you mention what the missing parts were? Thanks!

[@jbat66]

I'm going to ditto what Alex said below: "A lot of inconsistencies between this video and the repair manual. Also, various steps are omitted, and various other steps are unnecessary."

[@mr.ogpaint3086]

Came here because your manual (expensive $$$) does not included the very important step of removing the bumper support bolts. Thanks for the video, but I'd like my 2 hours of trying to dislodge the radiator support back

[@joeyjacildone4500]

i wouldn't know how to do if i was not watching this youtube shows,

[@davidpetersen5570]

...and I thought Saabs were annoying to work on. The dealer can keep servicing my Mini.

[@clonSanG]

Sounds like cutting the wires on a bomb lol

[@ry753x]

Fail. Even this correction video (to make up for the failure of the Bentley manual) doesn't work for the R57. As others noted, the book fails to mention the key step of removing front bumper bolts. This video corrects that failure (and others) for some cars, but this video's procedure will not work to remove bumper bolt son R57 (the late model convertible 4-seater turbo). You guys at Bentley have really gone down hill.

[@paulc2953]

Could you do this for the R60? I think it is slightly different in a couple important ways, but I can't figure out how to use the special tool Device 813010 83-30-2-346-947 Thanks!