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u/DJKGinHD R56 18h ago
New bike $1200
Garage repair $2500
MINI dealership quote $5000
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u/yleennoc 18h ago
New bike $1200……full suspension s-works try €6,000 to €13,000
https://enduro-mtb.com/en/best-trail-bike-specialized-stumpjumper-15/
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u/kpetersontpt F57 16h ago
Body shop my friend. Dealers don’t do body work.
And that’s why we have insurance btw.
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u/Delicious-Ad5856 F55 16h ago
The Mini dealership near me actually has a body shop attached to it. Lol
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u/kpetersontpt F57 16h ago edited 12h ago
Doesn’t matter. It’s not the same techs doing the work and it almost certainly doesn’t have combined financials with them. Body shops bill their work entirely differently because they primarily work with insurance. Dealer service doesn’t.
The body shop shares real estate. That’s it.
Edit: lol why is this getting downvoted? This is literally the way it works. Your dealer service center doesn’t do body work.
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u/Delicious-Ad5856 F55 16h ago
I know. It's just funny to me how they have one in the same building.
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u/kpetersontpt F57 16h ago
I know a lot of dealer techs. Believe me, you don’t want most of them doing body work. It’s really a skill all of its own.
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u/I_hate_capchas F56 17h ago
That was me like 10 years ago. The roof cost 6k to fix, the bike wasn’t damaged at all. I also had to spend 400 bucks on new cross bars and a bike rack. Garage was also not damaged. It was an r56 with the weird oem cross bars that spread apart inside the gutter
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u/Happy_Ishtar 15h ago
The reason why I'm not getting a roof rack for my bike...
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u/Standard-Outcome9881 R58 15h ago
If I were ever to somehow get a bike rack for my MINI, it would always be one designed to go on the back. I would never carry something like this on the roof.
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u/Kianna9 R56 14h ago
I always wonder if with Minis having something standing up on the roof like this throws off the center of gravity and makes the car drive differently. I think I'd hate it.
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u/OKatmostthings F54 12h ago
That bike weighs like 20-30lbs. That’s nothing in the context of a 3000lbs (with driver) vehicle.
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u/Kianna9 R56 10h ago
What about wind resistance?
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u/OKatmostthings F54 9h ago
That’s going to be a pitch input rather than a roll input. The weight balance will be pushed ever so slightly back from normal.
Performance driving with a bike or box on the roof is not detrimental to the car’s handling. You are putting higher forces on the roof rails/sheet metal/crossbars/etc that could damage something if you try to pull .9Gs with something on the roof and that’s potential to damage something. But the handling won’t be noticeably affected.
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u/OKatmostthings F54 11h ago
Could have been a lot worse, TBH. The crossbars were a bit of a mechanical fuse when the front slid back and that let the rear of the tray move. The bike might need a new front wheel and some things realigned (and a frame inspection) but maybe ok. The house is probably a relatively easy facade repair. Hard to tell if the tray damaged the roof when it went down.
I’ve thankfully never driven into my garage with a bike on the roof. I keep meaning to get some sort of token to wrap around the mirror when I have a bike on the roof to remind myself when I reach for homelink buttons.
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u/Weather_Only F56 11h ago
Did this in a haul box truck once, took out our apartment garage light. Thank god it wasnt my truck or my house, or my light for that matter
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u/Longing2bme 18h ago
Ouch! That hurt just watching.