The engine of your car is sophisticated, it is not always easy to read all the symptoms it sends us. On the other hand, it is absolutely essential to try to stay on alert for the slightest indicator of weakness in your car to limit the risk of serious concerns. If you have the feeling that your clutch is slipping on your Mini Countryman, you’re right to have started researching. It’s a problem that must be taken into account fairly quickly, otherwise you could end up with an unusable car. To help you in your approach our team has chose to compose this guide which should allow you to see more clearly and make the right decisions to avoid aggravating the problem and ensure that it is indeed the issue you are victim of. To achieve this, we will first have a look at what a slipping clutch on Mini Countryman is and how to check that this is what is occurring to you, and then, what measures can be taken to correct the problem.

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What is slipping clutch on Mini Countryman and how to recognize it?

A Mini Countryman with a clutch that slips

The clutch of your Mini Countryman is the part that permits your engine to change gears. It is located between your gearbox and your engine. It is the part that comes into contact with the flywheel which is located on the engine side and which will collect the power transmitted by the clutch. With wear, the clutch of your Mini Countryman slips because it is made up of notches that engage in the flywheel, and with wear and friction it wears out. It is said that the clutch slips when its teeth are too damaged for it to engage on the flywheel.

How to recognize clutch slipping on an Mini Countryman?

There are several solutions to identify that the clutch of your Mini Countryman is slipping. You can conduct all of these checks on your own.
You can simply identify that your clutch slips when you accelerate and your engine revs up, but your car does not speed up, you may as well experience a burning smell.
To verify the first statement, you can stop, pull the hand brake, engage the first gear, accelerate reasonably by releasing the clutch of your car carefully, in the event that your engine motor rises in revs but the Mini Countryman is still stationary it is the indicator of a dead clutch.
Finally, you can put yourself, still in third gear, with the handbrake on, and by releasing it, your car should stall, if not, your clutch is almost certainly dead.

What should I do if my clutch slips on my Mini Countryman?

Some advices to avoir the wear of your Mini Countryman clutch

We will now give you some tips to limit the wear of your clutch and avoid your clutch slipping on your Mini Countryman. First of all, it is good not to leave your foot on the clutch pedal, even if the pressure you apply is very mild you will pre wear the clutch release bearing which will eventually result in a full change of the clutch kit. Another point not to be neglected, do not over-accelerate when you start, your acceleration must constantly be adapted to the velocity of your engine motor. If you are at a standstill accelerate slowly, if you are at medium speed accelerate gradually when you release the clutch pedal of your car so as not to make it slip against your engine flywheel.

Replacing your Mini Countryman clutch

At last, in this last portion, we will address the repair part. In circumstance the clutch of your Mini Countryman is useless, you may possibly be stuck at a standstill and have no other solution than to call the tow truck, because a dead clutch no longer allows the transmission to transfer power to the wheels. If this is the circumstance, take note that you will have to replace the complete clutch kit, this repair needs quite a few hours of work and is estimated to cost between 500 and 1200 euros based on the engine and the workshop.

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