# Service bulletin M330115

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: 10147285
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-11\-05
- Manufacturer's number: M330115
- Manufacturer's date: 2015\-09\-01
- NHTSA component: SUSPENSION:REAR:SHOCK ABSORBER

## NHTSA's summary

Noises from the Rear Axle Shock Absorber. The customer complains about a hammering noise from the rear axle area, when driving on rough road surfaces with low ambient temperatures. This noise will disappear with warmer ambient temperature. CAUSE Rear axle shock absorbers

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2015/MC-10147285-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2015/MC-10147285-0001.pdf)

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## Components

Suspension, Shocks and struts

## Vehicles listed

- 2014 to 2015 MINI COOPER
- 2016 MINI COOPER CONVERTIBLE
- 2014 to 2016 MINI COOPER S

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [M330115](/bulletins/10147797.md), 2018-11-13, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION; SUSPENSION:REAR:SHOCK ABSORBER. Noises from the Rear Axle Shock Absorber. The customer complains about a hammering noise from the rear axle area, when driving on rough road surfaces with low ambient temperatures. This noise will disappear with warmer ambient temperature. CAUSE Rear axle shock absorbers
- [M310215](/bulletins/10147284.md), 2018-11-05, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:FRONT:MACPHERSON STRUT. In isolated cases, during the vehicles assembly, it is possible that one of the front spring struts was not correctly positioned in the swivel bearing.

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