Smoking, its a filthy habit…
Its even worse when your car is doing it while your pegging it down a dual carriage way at 50mph…
Not sure what happened – I could remember smelling something burning, but I didn’t think much of it (I had both windows down, so could have easily been that) – then I notice my windows start fogging up – that’s not a good sign – and then I see white smoke rising out of the air vent next to the wind screen – that’s an even worse sign.
So I panic, pull myself off the road in a safe manner, and call MINI emergency services – half an hour later, a BMW mechanic in an estate pulls up behind me and asks me questions about the car, then starts sniffing around the engine. After muchos trouble shooting, he works out its a heating radiator leak, and the smoke is the antifreeze burning on hot engine parts – he said that would also explain why the floor mats are wet (never figured that out).
He arranges me to take the car to Cooper Wimbledon to have it serviced, which they promptly sort me out and basically steal my car and run tests on it and violate it in ways I never thought possible.
2 days later, they ring me up and say Its all done! Yay! They had to replace the heater matrix, the radiator, and did a coolant replacement for all the coolant that went burny burn. And they valet’ed my car, and washed it for free!
Its nice and shiny now!
