TGGRRR (Ali) Posted March 20, 2018 Report Posted March 20, 2018 Since I rarely drive Tigger I am not too worried about hurrying for repairs but brought him in to Passport for an oil change and inspection. He failed inspection! They sent me this Good Morning Ali. Tigger fails for the right front lower ball joint having too much play $365. An alignment is necessary when doing this repair $169.95Other items noticed that don't fail and can wait are as follows;oil pan gasket is leaking $850 + taxengine cooling fan stage 1 is inop $775 + tax I authorized the front lower ball joint and alignment since he needs that for his inspection but told them to hold off on the other repairs. Contacted PTuning and they quoted me almost half off on the oil pan and will let me know on the cooling fan. So he'll be going from Passport to P-Tuning. He seems to get one expensive break a year, it's all part of having an older MINI. Yay for Ptuning!!! 1 Tigger 2006 the cabrio and Riversong the 2014 Countryman
JAB 67 Posted March 20, 2018 Report Posted March 20, 2018 How many miles on Tigger? In any event, those prices are obscene. The low speed fan resistor can be bought for $50 and replaced in less than 2 hours max of labor. JAB 67 Fairfax, VA 2004 MCS, PW/B
TGGRRR (Ali) Posted March 20, 2018 Author Report Posted March 20, 2018 26 minutes ago, JAB 67 said: How many miles on Tigger? In any event, those prices are obscene. The low speed fan resistor can be bought for $50 and replaced in less than 2 hours max of labor. 118,000 miles. That's what Justin at Ptuning told me. So he'll just go there when I get him back Tigger 2006 the cabrio and Riversong the 2014 Countryman
TGGRRR (Ali) Posted March 20, 2018 Author Report Posted March 20, 2018 Tigger is home, they did discount the work to get him to pass inspection so that was a lot better than originally quoted but I'm going to PTuning for the rest of the work Tigger 2006 the cabrio and Riversong the 2014 Countryman
1975_mini Posted March 21, 2018 Report Posted March 21, 2018 11 hours ago, TGGRRR (Ali) said: Tigger is home, they did discount the work to get him to pass inspection so that was a lot better than originally quoted but I'm going to PTuning for the rest of the work Did you tell Passport not to do the oil change then, since the oil has to be change to replace the oil pan gasket? also remember that their are lots of gen1 in the junction yards, great place to get replacement parts for pennies on the dollar 1975 Mini 1000, 998cc A+ w/ K&N air filter, 10" Mamba wheels
TGGRRR (Ali) Posted March 21, 2018 Author Report Posted March 21, 2018 3 hours ago, 1975_mini said: Did you tell Passport not to do the oil change then, since the oil has to be change to replace the oil pan gasket? also remember that their are lots of gen1 in the junction yards, great place to get replacement parts for pennies on the dollar Nooooo they didn't mention that and I didn't know Tigger 2006 the cabrio and Riversong the 2014 Countryman
1975_mini Posted March 21, 2018 Report Posted March 21, 2018 7 hours ago, TGGRRR (Ali) said: Nooooo they didn't mention that and I didn't know That was nice of them. 1 1975 Mini 1000, 998cc A+ w/ K&N air filter, 10" Mamba wheels
TGGRRR (Ali) Posted April 5, 2018 Author Report Posted April 5, 2018 Tigger is now at PTuning. They're fixing the radiator fan and the oil pan gasket leak for $430. They're saving my oil so I don't need to buy new. I <3 PTuning 2 Tigger 2006 the cabrio and Riversong the 2014 Countryman
wyretrip Posted April 5, 2018 Report Posted April 5, 2018 12 hours ago, TGGRRR (Ali) said: for $430 Wow! Nice! 1
