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Before you buy a used MINI Countryman (R60) / Paceman (R61).

2010–2016 · Petrol / Diesel · 4 engines

Taken only from Testigo's sourced sheets. Use it to question the seller and on the test drive: it does not confirm that any particular car is affected.

MINI Countryman (R60) / Paceman (R61), real photo of this generation
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The essentials.

Typical faults by engine

The period and mileage are those mentioned by each sheet's sources. They are not a maintenance interval and do not predict that any particular car will fail.

All versions

Sheets the catalogue links to all 4 of its engines.

One / Cooper 1.6

Petrol

Cooper S / JCW 1.6 turbo (N18)

Petrol

Cooper D 1.6 (PSA, hasta 2011)

Diesel

Cooper D 1.6 / SD 2.0 (N47, desde 2011)

Diesel

  • Stretched rear timing chainTiming system
    Period mentioned
    2007–2015 (improved from 2011)
    Mileage mentioned
    The sheet does not mention a mileage.

Which engine has the fewest documented faults?

Documented faults and recalls by engine for the MINI Countryman (R60) / Paceman (R61)
EngineDocumented faults
One / Cooper 1.6Petrol2
Cooper S / JCW 1.6 turbo (N18)Petrol2
Cooper D 1.6 (PSA, hasta 2011)Diesel2
Cooper D 1.6 / SD 2.0 (N47, desde 2011)Diesel2

According to the data we have, all its engines have the same number of documented faults.

We only count the sourced sheets we have. An engine with fewer is not guaranteed to be more reliable: it may have been studied less or sold in smaller numbers.

Official recalls: ask before you pay

We have no official recalls on record for this model. Our list is not complete: ask anyway, with the chassis number.

  1. Ask the seller for the chassis number (VIN): it has 17 characters, appears in the car's documents and can usually also be seen at the base of the windscreen.
  2. Ask an official MINI dealer, or the brand's official website if it lets you check by chassis number, whether each recall has been done or is still outstanding for that VIN.
  3. Manufacturer recalls are normally carried out free of charge by the official service network. If one is outstanding, ask for it to be done before you close the sale.

On the test drive: what to look and listen for

Taken from each sheet's symptoms and checks. You can tick off what you have already looked at: it is saved only in this browser.

0 of 5 checked

Timing / Valvetronic

  • Look out for: Chain rattle on cold starts, unstable idle, stalling and an engine light with variable valve timing codes (P1030, P1062, P101A, P1025).

    Ask them to check: Listen to a cold start and check the timing and chain condition before replacing Valvetronic parts or repeating adaptations.

Electrical and electronic systems

  • Look out for: After a flat battery, a battery change or disconnection, or a jump start: lights, indicators or windows stop working, side or dipped lights stay on and diagnostics cannot communicate with the module (for example code 00A3C1).

    Ask them to check: Check the battery and charging and try communicating with ISTA. If the module does not respond, it can be repaired by rewriting its EEPROM (specialist services or programmers) instead of being replaced, then coded. Use a voltage maintainer when working on the car.

Timing system

  • Look out for: Metallic rattle for several seconds after a cold start; engine light for timing deviation.

    Ask them to check: Listen to a cold start and check whether the chain was replaced with the revised parts.

  • Look out for: Rattling from the rear of the engine (gearbox side) on a cold start, getting worse over time. In extreme cases the engine cuts out while driving.

    Ask them to check: Listen with the engine fully cold, ideally with a mechanic's stethoscope on the rear of the block.

Turbo / injection

  • Look out for: Loud turbo whistle, power loss, blue or black smoke, oil that gets dirty very quickly. Before the failure, often a puffing or ticking from the cylinder head and an exhaust smell from an injector.

    Ask them to check: Check injector bolt torque and carbon at their base, the turbo banjo bolt and the sump strainer.

OBD codes worth looking for

If they let you read the fault memory with an OBD reader, these are the codes mentioned in this model's sheets:

P1030P1062P101AP102500A3C1P0016

Sources

Every fact on this page comes from these Testigo sheets and their original sources. Sources are not checked in real time.

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