Bert -
I am sure there's an official Mini "lower hose removal tool" which will do
the removal in 3 minutes or less. Only $300, built for shop use of course.
Alan
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Bert Van Brande <bertvanbrande@yahoo.com>wrote:
> I am already happy there is a drain tap on my BN2.
>
> On my daughters 2005 Mini
> Cooper there is no drain tap or valve, you need to take off the lower hose,
> which you barely can get too to drain the coolant. Why did I need to drain
> the coolant? To take of the top coolant hose to get to a broken
> alternator,
> and oh yeah I needed to take off the outer bumper and the inner bumper
> structure and move the radiator out a bit too.... Sigh, progress? Still
> fun
> to drive though!
>
> Bert
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