just bought a 2004 cooper s JCW mini love it except.... this awful DING noise it makes usually when I am about to shift our of a lower gear. does anyone know what this noise is and how i can stop it?

 

Can you be more specific please?

Is the ding an alarm indicator coming from an electronic device on the dash?

Is the ding a metalic sounding ding coming from the tranny housing area (Where the stick shift comes out)?

Do you have two metalic dingy sounding things on your keychain that may be clanking together when you shift gears?

 

I wasn't actually familiar with it, but perhaps it is because of the gear setup in manual trannys...its a much lower setup which ur forward gears are higher... ever notice how reverse can not go as fast as in forward. visit this one: science.howstuffworks.com/gear3.htm

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