Still Sputtering Along

road trip: Atlanta to Knoxville
odometer reading: 12,600 n change

500 miles later I’m back home in TN and the car still drives like crap. I’ve learned from the online MINI community that others are experiencing these problems too. So far though, I haven’t seen anyone mention that they’ve had their car fixed correctly. I’ve talked with the dealer twice. Each time I get a different answer to my same questions. They also want me to ship my car down to them via roadside assistance, put me in a rental, and let them keep my car for “a while”. When pressed for how long “a while” is, hesitantly I was told at least a week. When asked what they were going to do, I wasn’t given an answer. Oh, and although roadside assistance would take my car down there, and dealer would pay for the rental, it still meant another drive down to the dealer to pick up the car with no guarantees that it would be fixed. Hello, ship it back to me and maybe you’ll get it. We are not amused, to say the least