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   Mini Identification

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Introduction

The following covers the most common Minis; i.e., those built in the UK. The ones built there for the UK market make up about 46% of the 5.3 million Minis built. You can be reasonably safe in extending the information in this article to Minis built in the UK for export sale, or those built in the UK as CKD (Completely Knocked Down kits) that were assembled in other countries. There are exceptions, but they are few enough. This accounts for another 46% of total Minis. So, figure 92% of all the Minis built were done in the UK.

It is harder to extend the article’s discussions to cars built outside of the UK -- about 8% of the total. Some exceptions are noted in the article, but exercise caution when dealing with non-UK built cars.

Published information on cars built outside of the UK is scarce. For instance, there is one book on Australian cars, which is only marginally helpful ("Mini Minor Down Under", Pedr Davis, ISBN 0-947079-10-6). Nothing major has been published on the South African cars (although the definitive book is in the works), and there is nothing major covering the Italian and Spanish cars, at least in English. There is a short discussion at the end of this article about some of the cars built outside of the UK and even some of the differences in UK built cars for export. See “Minis Built for Export and Minis Built Outside of the UK.”

If you are new to Minis, you might want to work your way through the entire article. Follow all the links, or just take a section at a time.

If you are not new to Minis, but haven’t been around them too long, you can use the various links to jump to sections that may interest you the most.

And if you have been around Minis for years and see bits missing that you could add to Mini Identification, contact Mini Mania and offer to help fill in the blanks! (info@minimania.com) If you find errors pass that information on, too.

If your Mini is in standard, factory form (i.e., “stock”) then sections like “Identifying Minis by Chassis Number/VIN – Standard Cars,” Identifying Minis by Engine/Power Unit,” and the “Mini Mini History will be helpful. Even if your car has been modified, the same sections should help with identification, depending upon the extent of modifications.

If you go through parts of the identification sections and the history and something doesn’t add up, this article may still be helpful. Examples: your car seems to be a cross between a couple of types of Minis, or the Chassis Number/VIN plate is missing, or the engine ID plate is missing. There are a couple of sections that may help. See “Identifying Non Standard Minis,” and “Engine ID If the ID Tag Is Missing.” Both of these sections will work better if used with the sections on standard cars and engines.

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Article Date: Feb 13, 2006
Car Accociations: MINI,MOKE,MORRIS,SPRITE
Hits: 44760

3 Comments
 02/24/2011 @ 4:16 PM
gazza
hi ken thay not the right caps. its the one that goes on the end of the thermostat houseing.thanks

 02/22/2012 @ 5:17 PM

Adam
I have owned Mini Cooper hatch since 2004, autom. transm., 41K current mileage, maintained accordingly and up driving w/o problems until MINI hit about 40K, at which time issues w gear slippage or what I understand probably is the case. Unable to use the car for any hwy driving due to what seems to be transmission defect, diagnostics from an independent car shop.MINI dealership denies to have any knowledge of any problems either locally or corp. offices. Looking through online blogs and the only severe tranny issue noted in 03 manual system vs. automatic, none in 04 or automatic tranny. Heard of possible class action in CA (?) yet not in other states. Would urge anyone w tranny break in 04 (or around) to contact NHTSA.gov to report. BMW/MINI should have some responsibility if this is indeed a problem that others have.

If anyone has any suggestions, please do call, contact dealerships, and the corporate offices. This is a costly problem to fix, and the ONLY way is to get together and insist that we, the owners, are NOT left dry without help. Even if you already have given up and sold your MINI, do get involved on behalf of those who have this pricey problem. Please do get attention for this from corporate offices, NHTSA, and anyone who cares about MINI reputability otherwise. It was a great car while it lasted.

Need to help one another. Thanks.

 04/16/2012 @ 10:30 AM

JAMIL
Please anyone have this chassis model Year Email me. ajn.2010@yahoo.com

I WANT TO KNOW THE MODEL

SAXXL2S1010101847 MINI COOPER

THANKS

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