Life with our Mini has mostly been good.
However it has been back to the dealers as the headlights were just awful! We took delivery of the Mini at the beginning of the summer and it hardly ventured out at night. When it did there were a few remarks about the headlights and how poor they were. As the nights drew in and the weather got murky it soon became apparent that the lights were about as good as two candles!. We had to resort to driving around with the lights on main beam ( Nobody noticed, nobody flashed their lights) and even then they were hardly the most illuminating of things. Rybrook Stratford took the Mini back in and checked it over. The alignment of the lights needed adjusting, but the lights themselves were deemed to be working correctly. Although there has been a vast improvement, the lights are still second rate when compared to other cars we have driven, perhaps the xenon upgrade should be made a standard feature?
Another slight annoyance is the MPG figure has dropped to just over 53. The car has been driven by the same people, over the same roads at roughly the same speeds. I think there is either a problem, or Mini are very optimistic claiming that the car will average over 70mpg. At the moment the car can't even achieve the claimed urban ( the lowest) figure of 67MPG!
All in all the Mini is still a fine car, it just seems to have blotted it's copy book of late.
