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Mini Cooper

Every Mini Cooper model year on file, 2015 to 2026. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years16322 involved a crash, fire, injury or death

Model years122015 to 2026

Recall campaigns15Distinct campaigns listing it

Service bulletins1,336Summed across model years

By model year

The 2015 model year drew the most complaints, 56, 34% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.

Components

Electrical system leads the Mini Cooper complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Electrical system

Engine and cooling

Powertrain

Fuel system

Brakes

Lighting

Airbags

Steering

Visibility and wipers

Structure

Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.

Model years

The record for each Mini Cooper model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

Mini Cooper by model year
Year	Body	Complaints	Severity index	Peer index	Recalls	Investigations	Bulletins
2026	Hatchback	2	0.0	50	1	0	11
2025	Hatchback	1	0.0	20	3	0	43
2024	Hatchback	1	0.0	13	0	0	28
2023	Hatchback	7	28.6	64	0	0	15
2022	Hatchback	6	16.7	67	0	0	25
2021	Hatchback	7	28.6	100	2	0	46
2020	Hatchback	7	42.9	88	2	0	74
2019	Hatchback	12	0.0	92	2	0	141
2018	SUV	8	37.5	19	0	0	200
2017	Hatchback	28	17.9	165	3	0	273
2016	Hatchback	28	10.7	224	1	0	85
2015	Hatchback	56	5.4	329	6	2	395

Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.

Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the Mini Cooper

25V-616 Sep 17, 2025
Torsion bar in both front seat belt retractors may have been damaged during production
Seat belts · 1,571 vehicles
24V-697 Sep 18, 2024
Welds in the servomotor of the integrated brake control module may break, causing a loss of power brake assist and rear brake function
Stability and traction control · 309 vehicles
24V-104 Feb 12, 2024
Integrated brake (IB) system may malfunction and result in a loss of power brake assist or cause the Antilock Brake (ABS) and Dynamic Stability…
Stability and traction control · 267k vehicles
21V-554 Jul 21, 2021
Passenger seat belt Automatic Locking Retractor (ALR) may deactivate early, before the webbing fully retracts
Seat belts · 22k vehicles
20V-283 May 20, 2020
Due to a problem with the rollover sensor within the air bag control unit, in the event of a rollover crash, the head air bag, seat belt…
Airbags · 76 vehicles
19V-634 Aug 28, 2019
Rear side trim panels may have been assembled without a crash pad
Structure · 683 vehicles
19V-601 Aug 14, 2019
Steering gear tie rod may have been assembled incorrectly, which may result in excessive wear of the tie rod end, eventually causing it to break
Steering · 32 vehicles
18V-465 Jul 11, 2018
Crankshaft sensor may be equipped with incorrect firmware, preventing the sensor from properly processing input from the crankshaft reluctor ring,…
Engine and cooling · 5,309 vehicles
17V-222 Mar 31, 2017
When the affected vehicles are braking and the turn signals are on, the inner, bumper-mounted, brake light will go out
Lighting · 17k vehicles
16V-914 Dec 20, 2016
Affected vehicles have seat- mounted side air bag inflator initiators that may fail to ignite during a crash
Airbags · 3,506 vehicles

Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.