Are Mini Coopers reliable?

[George_San_Jose1]

@Babak_Mostafavi

I purchased a 2014 Mini S double scroll turbo All4 in Nov 2018 and so far it’s been the best car I have ever owned.

Before going down that route suggest posters review the recent thread here about a Mini - S turbo and its oxygen sensors. May well be a fine and well designed car, but doesn’t seem very diy’er friendly.

Mini Cooper R56 P0137 code

They’re referred to as o2 sensors or oxygen sensors in the service data I’m looking at. I’m not sure if that means they really are the traditional narrow band sensor, or they are in fact the wideband air-fuel-ratio sensor. On the electrical schematic, the section where the power-train control circuit is shown is referred to as “lambda control”. By the looks of the circuit, the pre-cat sensor has 3 current outputs, labeled alsvr1 (GE) - Yellow alsvp1 (WS) - White ilsvp1 (GE) – Yell…