# Service bulletin SIM\-17\-10\-12

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10049422
- Published by NHTSA: 2013\-01\-16
- Manufacturer's number: SIM\-17\-10\-12
- Manufacturer's date: 2012\-10\-01
- NHTSA component: ENGINE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM

## NHTSA's summary

MINI: THE ENGINE THERMOSTAT HOUSING HAD POOR SOLDER CONTACTS IN COOLANT TEMPERATURE SENSOR WHICH CAUSED A NO START, OR HARD, LONG CRANK START OF A COLD ENGINE. NO MODELS OR MODEL YEARS LISTED. \*PE

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Engine, Cooling system

## Vehicles listed

- 2012 MINI COOPER
- 2012 MINI COOPER COUNTRYMAN
- 2012 MINI COOPER COUPE
- 2012 MINI COOPER ROADSTER
- 2012 MINI COOPER S

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [SIM\-65\-01\-13](/bulletins/10051919.md), 2013-04-19, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM:FAN. MINI: INTEGRATED COOLING FAN IS NOISY INTERMITTENTLY. THIS NOISE MAY BE MORE NOTICEABLE AFTER THE IGNITION IS TURNED OFF. MODELS R55, R56, R57, R58, R59, AND R60. \*KB
- [SIM\-12\-06\-12](/bulletins/10049421.md), 2013-01-16, Service bulletin: ENGINE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM. MINI: ENGINE COOLANT TEMPERATURE SENSOR, NOW AN INDIVIDUAL COMPONENT DUE TO CHANGE IN WIRING HARNESS AND REPLACEMENT OF HARNESS HAS TWO SEPARATE TWO PIN CONNECTORS, WHERE ONE FOR COOLANT TEMPERATURE SENSOR AND OTHER COOLANT THERMOSTAT. ALL MODELS BUILT UP TO 3/2012. \*PE

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