Meet The PERFECT First Modified Car - R53 Mini Cooper S!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- WIN this Mini Cooper S: bggiveaways.co...
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I have been given the R53 Mini Cooper S for a week by @bggiveaways, and I intend to take it to as many meets as I can! One of those was the Hurtwood Park retro meet, which was an incredible scene.
I hope you enjoy this new style of video, the more cars that are won, the more cars I can show you on the channel!
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The driver side window is scuffed just as horribly as on mine. 😂😂
2005 Cooper S here, Also driver window scratched to bits :')
Have a R53 sitting on the drive, serious fun.
Yesss feel this rn 🤣 feel likegoin for moooooch 🤣🤣
Same can't beat em
I have an old 205. Does that count?
Must be fun sitting on the drive
Me too
You could buy a lot with the price of a pint these days but definitely worth a shot at that cracking car!
Had an r50, then a clio 197 now a r56 JCW. All awesome
I CAN TELL YOU WAS HAVING A VERY FUN TIME IN THAT MINI
This would acc be the best birthday present icl
11:20 T5-R wagon in yellow.... Love it.
Very few of those in the US.
The bird was a Magpie you should always salute the Magpie (or wave).The mini looks 👌 I think I will be buying a ticket 🎟
R.I.P in peace to that pint😔
It was diluted coke 👀
@@AdamC3046 😂
@@AdamC3046 Haha that’s brilliant!
So R.I.P.I.P. Then? Sounds like a Honda exhaust 🤔
What’s the wheel size and offset I like this combo all the wheel websites in the states have bad combos as picks and will label a pic that looks good as a 16 but you know looking at it it’s at least a 18”
Got an 03’ cooper R50 as my first car and currently restoring it mechanically/modifying and under sealing while everything is off, massively underrated cars the R50/53’s generation,can’t imagine what the supercharged feels like!
There fun but the transmissions aren't very good I have one that I want to make a sleeper
@@explodingbullets4972 I’ve heard the pre facelift rover transmissions are bad but I haven’t had any problems with mine so far and owned it for a few years now
I have a 2002 R53, but how do you get the doors to lock at 15 mph or so, mine dont lock... i have to press the Button, is there a trick or something?
I had a ‘05 JCW R53. Everything JCW carbon on the inside and out (wing, doorhandles, mirror caps) same type wheels as this only Lenso. Only downside I found, is that it drinked oil for days..
What! An AdamC video featuring a Mini? I was under the assumption that he not a fan of mini's since he rarely points them out in his videos.
I have a r53 as my first car and i think its genuinely one of the best and most underrated hatchbacks/4 cylinders
A cooper s as a first car????
@@hardc0reloonasimp keep it on the downlow😉
2005 R53 JCW owner Here!! ❤❤
I've been looking for a R53/R50 for my first car would it be a good and reliable one?
had a low mileage r53 cooper s...great fun until it hit the 100,000km mark...then the fun stopped and despite perfect maintanence the repair orgie started...tear in the exhaust manifold, timing chain tensioner, ecu problems,waterpump and kompressor,engine mounts...and the list goes on and on, just one thing after another...you repair one thing then the next problem shows up!!! these cars are a blast to drive on b roads until they just are´nt anymore and become permanent guests in your local repair shop...had a real love hate relationship with that car...great performance and handling but absolutly sh*tty reliability!!!
eventually sold it and now i´ve had a Abarth 595 competizione as my little b road fun car the last 5 years...and honestly i´ve got almost a 195,000km on it now and have´nt had a single issue with it yet! ya they are a bit expensive even as used cars in compairison to a mini but just as fun and tenfold more reliable...what the mini comes cheaper buying comes back to haunt you in repair costs! still love the mini´s just would never buy one of the earlier models again!
Maybe this comes a little late, but a R50 Cooper is an amazing first car. Best is if you get a 2004-2006 with heated seats and Automatic AC. Amazing vehicles and fairly reliable. I myself have one with over 160k miles.
not unless you can do your own work or shops and parts are cheap in your area.
8:32 lovely Merc (in front of E46)
Nice to see someone different with a car review. First thought at a glimpse this was a Jamie FYD video by the thumbnail
Proud owner of a r53 😂💯 never sell me car 💯💯
Bought my first one a year ago... I might as well live in it, same miles on a 2005, it'll deffo screw up at some point, I've learnt this and mines a 3 owner car namby Pamby"d all its life
It doesn't matter when it does because I've never drove anything as fun and I'm a 45 year old petrol head, I'll be buying a ticket so I've got a back up when one dies briefly
22mpg absolute tops but yet again 🤷🏻♂️
I got a r50, it’s my first car. But even the 50 is probs the most fun car I’ve driven. Eventually I’ll upgrade to a r53 😂
Love these cars brilliant fun have a R53 myself can't beat that whine!
do love the cooper s looks so cool even as old as it is
Cool shirt Adam 👍. I've got nearly all their albums so best I get one . Just a thought . Have a look at the Gunston Perana replicas(next to the White Capri). They're V-8 Capris made for South Africa. The blown Anglia looks like an Allardette by Alan Allard, son of UK drag-racing pioneer Sidney Allard. All cool stuff . Thank you mate . Pete
Amazing to see Adam doing some Mini content. I know it's probably gone by now. However I'm running a Mini run on the 11th June in Buckinghamshire where over 20 minis will be there if you want to join !!
fair play, hope I your run went well
@@555jaybo had 17 cars so not bad
Seja muito bem vindo ao Brasil
Estou assistindo seus vídeos.
Acompanhado seu canal.
Dam the thumbnail reminds me of the rev’s and max power front cover 👌
That driver side window needs a good cutting 😂
07:55 sometimes I can't believe those roads are in UK. You know sometimes UK does look like third world country in terms of B roads.
R53 was okay but I'm bitter as the fan resistor went and I didn't see until I sold most parts off it, thought I was headgasket 😭🤣
This car is gorgeous
i have one had it 7 years i can drive my dads car whenever i want and its an audi rs5 twin turbo but the mini is more fun not even joking haha
goat partnership!!!
Well Adam. Everyone loves a White Chaser, but unfortunately the Nissan Laural would blow the Chaser into the weeds., such a better car, but yours is a good runner up.
I don't think you are correct there, sir.
I’ve been saying i want an r53 since February but I can’t afford one till august. Might aswell enter for it
I’ve had a few and they all run hot, the all leak oil and they’ll all need a clutch. The trouble is, you have to take the whole front end off or practically the whole engine to do any work. They aren’t really sustainable financially for someone really young on a budget, unless you can strip it on your drive yourself.
Try an r56 jcw at 18 yrs old apprentice wage 😂
Depends how handy you are with tools. There is huge aftermarket support for repairs etc and the owners group is brilliant
It s like 10 bolts or less to remove all the front end.
Run hot? Leak? Nope.
Me: OOOO a new Adam C video
The intro: "weeeeee" "weee" "weeeeeee" "weeeee" "wee"
Edit: At 7:26 man tried to harmonize with the whining 💀
Matches my r56 cooper . silver , black roof, leather seats ..👀
Bloody brilliant
2nd
Congrats🎉
I’d love an r53 toy but the road tax puts me rightt off
Minis are fit as Fook, but my R50 is Fitter😂🤣😂🤣 Awesome Video ADAM C 👏👏👏
had a low mileage r53 cooper s...great fun until it hit the 100,000km mark...then the fun stopped and despite perfect maintanence the repair orgie started...tear in the exhaust manifold, timing chain tensioner, ecu problems,waterpump and kompressor,engine mounts...and the list goes on and on, just one thing after another...you repair one thing then the next problem shows up!!! these cars are a blast to drive on b roads until they just are´nt anymore and become permanent guests in your local repair shop...had a real love hate relationship with that car...great performance and handling but absolutly sh*tty reliability!!!
eventually sold it and now i´ve had a Abarth 595 competizione as my little b road fun car the last 5 years...and honestly i´ve got almost a 195,000km on it now and have´nt had a single issue with it yet! ya they are a bit expensive even as used cars in compairison to a mini but just as fun and tenfold more reliable...what the mini comes cheaper buying comes back to haunt you in repair costs! still love the mini´s just would never buy one of the earlier models again!
I’m not 100 per cent sure as I don’t have an Abarth, but they say that MINI provides better chassis and steering, as well as power potential. From an engineering point of view MINI is overall more efficient.
My R53 is almost 20 years old. I bought it 7 years ago. I’ve used it as a DD quite intensely as it’s the only car I have. The mileage has gone up from 180.000 km to 420.000 km. The car has obvious mods and 200 HP.
I must admit, that It’s been repaired for many-many times. Love-hate relationship continued for the first 3-4 years. But after that it suddenly stopped braking. No huge troubles since then. I traveled for 5-7.000 km several times with no problems as well. By the way, I’m not a mechanic at all. So, I am pretty sure that if this car is carefully looked after it is reliable. The main issue is to find a good one on sale. They are rare in general and good ones are hunted for.
Frankly speaking, a few weeks ago while speeding on streets I burned an exhaust valve and currently ride with only 3 cylinders running. I am waiting for my friend mechanic/tuner to install Cat Cam, TVS, BVH and remap the controller. He is genius and the one who found a way to do whatever he wants to the Siemens controller. His tune to Sprintex SC is way more efficient then the original one by Bytetronik… So, we will deal with the burnt valve as well.
R53 is a great car. The only real (!) issue is squeaking plastic. I don’t really care about it, but my wife does. That annoys…
@@alexfluxx3358 as somebody that has had both i can only say that yes the mini is tons of fun and has huge potential...and yes the stearing is a bit better then the abarth aswell as the seating position...as for power potential both are really good, my abarth went from 180hp to 220 hp just with a remap and a better air intake...and with a turbo and intercooler mod + some bigger injectors you can reach reliable 300+hp no problem...when it comes to interior quality both are a mixed bag of cheap plastik and some quality things like leather and alcantara...at the end of the day the power and quality diffrences are slim to none...the main issues and diffrence between the 2 is reliability and repair costs and thats where the abarth is a big jump ahead of the game compaired to the r53...my abarth is a 2012 model and allthough not 20 years old but 11 years without problems speaks for itsself...regular maintanence and two new timing belts that where changed out of percaution is all it took to run perfect until now...things that will probably need some atention in the near future thow are the clutch and two new wheel bearings in the front..and if you ask me that sure beats the many repairs that i went threw with the mini and the ones you had the first 4 years as you said.
so to make a long story short eventhow the mini still has a place in my heart, my personal opinion is the better daily with cheaper longterm runningcosts from my expierence is the abarth 595...not saying you can´t get lucky with a r53 aswell and it just runs without problems, but i was just sick and tired at the end of depending on luck when it comes to a small reliable daily with enough power under the hood and nice styling.
and lets be honest if it was´nt for the styling of both mini and abarth nobody would drive these cars...there all about the looks...there are a ton of better quality and more reliable cars on the market with simular specs for much cheaper...
just for example my second car is a lowered white merc 190e from 1987 with a 2.3 16v motor 185hp that does 235kph and 0 to 100kph in under 7,5 sec. on the autobahn and i shot it cheap for under 3 grand about 15 years ago...the thing handles better then any mini or abarth and i even did the same lap time on the nürburgring as with the 220hp abarth and almost 3,5 sec. faster then the r53 without any mods except some sporty coilovers, and have had to do nothing but the typical services/maintanence on it and i´m currently at around 385,000km with it...those are the typ of cars that are real keepers that even are starting to increase dramatically in value these days...as for minis and abarths, these are just fun cars and when and if they start having problems its best to just let them go and buy the next one...they are not worth the longterm investments and headaches.
What exhaust?
Great cars 👌🏻
Honestly you’d be better off not getting the S, insurance gonna be too high for first driver. I almost had a convertible model and I was quoted at £400/year for the first year. Could pick one up for under £3k too. Also had either a Stereo CD or a Cassette player (which I thought was cool for an ‘05 car).
I was thinking the same thing but $400 seems like a steal. I paid just over 2k for my insurance on a 1.1 peugeot 106 when I passed. I guess the insurance on the mini offsets the cost if you've paid close to 3k for a first car though.
@@burgerbait that’s true. My insurance was also only just over £2k, with a black box too; for an ‘09 Renault Megane 1.6. My car was my dads however and had sat still for about 5 years before I had it, insurance priced it at being worth around £2500.
Its not too bad I payed 1800 and it was the same for a corsa
Finally u got a decent car, just bought an R52 at weekend 😂😂 #everyonelovesamini
Please tell me no pints were harmed in the making of this video 😭
I can confirm it was diluted coke
I don't think that the wheels fit this car.
Needs Minilites 😂
I would NOT go near that Mini. If you have a look at just the previous MOTs, it failed on 19-OCT-11, passed the very next day, then failed on all the same faults that were meant to have been fixed when it went for MOT in 2012 with only 4568miles extra. There is no way those faults were repaired. Off-road in 2016 and 2021...
Has it been crashed or was it an insurance wrote-off from CoPart Auctions?
This is the problem with a lot of these raffle sites, you do not know the problems you might end up with unless you do ALL the checks. Even using things like CarVertical ONLY tell you the history of a numberplate or chassis number - NOT the car they might be attached to as it might not be the correct car.
I definitely would not go near this, not even for a $5 raffle ticket.
I would want the full MINI service history of any such car and to have it checked out first, Too many people get shut of cars that no one will buy.
Your loss. You're talking about things a decade ago. We have checked the MOT history, there's nothing to be worried about, and the car's a gooden'
It’s a nail
I sort of get what you're saying, however those MOTs are a decade ago...a lot can change between then & now.
If this car is worth say £3000, if you won this for £5, then you've got £2995 leftover to repair anything (which it won't need anyway) 🤷🏽♂️ I'd say thats a bargain...
Nice video.
love your videos
Welcome in Brasil
I actually got upset, man just threw the pint away 🥺
It's fine, it was only diluted coke
Love my R53 - Epic fun!
It's ok, I think that was apple juice in the glass.
Cider 👌😎
it was diluted coke
GF whining Is Bad it’s not if the neighbors come around asking what was all that noise Last night lol
effishidnish hmmm🤔
Change those horrible gold wheels and i might be interested
Sweet. Dude, in 20 years I think these are going to be really expensive, and as desirable as 911s. I've had the same R50 since 2005 (it's as fast as a stock S, though): th-cam.com/video/tSzG21ROg-U/w-d-xo.html
as desirable as 911's not too sure about that but they are great fun
@@555jaybo Give it some time. We'll see. Hard to tell what becomes a classic, but the MINIs have always punched above expectations.
This video needs to be flagged as an ad...
it already is
first for once 😂
Congratulations 🎉
@@AshLikesCar5 thanks!🎉
you deffinatly can not be efficient lol
I averaged 30mpg on my 250 mile stint of hooning and cruising.
I hate the interior
Worst car I ever had, 50k miles and needed bottom end rebuild within 2 weeks
Whines more than my wife
No thxs I’ll stick to my civic
6:02 I have the exact same window scratches on my R50😂😂
De chromed binis look shit
R53 great fun to drive
I like sandwiches
Adam should do more car reviews like monky London
Is it UK exclusive?
first for once tho 😂😂😂
not in comments i mean views