We're recent converts and love our ice green 2002 Mini, but have one minor
concern. The gearshift occasionally 'sticks' when going into or out of
reverse. Not all the time, maybe once every week or two.
The car is aproaching the end of its 50K mi. factory warrantee and so we
wanted the dealership to rectify this now (fearing it was a sympton of some
large problem looming) but the dealer would not offer any repair. The
serviceman shook his head sympathetically and said 'yeah, they all do that'
or words to the effect (presumably lesson #1 as mechanic's school)

They did offer to extend the warrantee based on our reporting the issue
within the warrantee period but it would only be prorated over15 or 20K mi.

Does anyone recognize this symptom and can you comment on it's prevalence in
the Mini Line? should we be concerned about it?

(n.b. it 'appears' that shifting from 2nd into Reverse temporarily 'fixes'
the problem.)

Many TIA
Martin