Your fleet running reports

[simon_g]

A clean MOT pass for the nearly 20 year old Stepwagon. And the front suspension advisories from the last two have gone away with no action from me The best kind of MOT day.

And thought I may as well save myself a delivery fee on some solar panels:

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[Delphi]

928 passed its final MOT with flying colours. Not a single advisory.

[PaulJ]

Well done that car/man!

[Sundayjumper]

Not mine; BiL's wife's MINI. 2017 Cooper 1.5 petrol, just under 70k miles. Rough idling. Dealer says VANOS fault and it'll be £2,670.40 to strip it down and confirm

Googling backs up the filter bolt being likely, and other possibilities too, including needing new camshafts

They can afford it fortunately, and like the peace of mind having the main dealer do it. But still. MINI's aren't cheap to run are they ??

[Mito Man]

I don’t know if it’s just because they’re popular so there’s millions of them about but they do seem to have a lot expensive issues.

[Alex88]

Same Mini as ours, and we also had a rough idle problem. Was a surprisingly cheap fix - PCV diaphragm/PCV hose for about £20/£30 or so. I think I also replaced the purge valve. That solved the bad idle.

It was everything else I had done that was expensive!

[Gavster]

I've been enjoying the mechanics 'rate the car brand' series on Instagram and BMW/Mini don't score very well.