Picked up a new Countryman on the 1st of the month.
Ordered at the start of April so quite a long wait but worth it.
It’s the full LCI model with the digital dash which I wanted. Sage green with black roof & mirrors, but keeping the chrome around the lights and grill.
It’s the Cooper so the basic 1.5 turbo, with cloth interior. However I then spent money on the options - premium plus pack so this adds front parking sensors, reversing camera, glass roof, auto dimming rear view and driver mirror which fold. I didn’t get the HK stereo due to the chip shortage, but this took £600 off the cost of the pack.
Then I just added asthetics. The paint, which at £795 I thought expensive but didn’t like many of the colours. Tints, dash trim, black roof rails, and the 17” Cooper S wheels.
Yes I don’t have the leather seats which are very nice, but to step up to the “exclusive” trim level which adds leather was going to add 2-3k to the price, and the only difference being the seats pretty much. That’s a 10% hike which I really couldn’t justify. It would be very easy to run away with yourself and before you know it be spending over 35k which to me was too much, I’d already had budget creep to get here!
After researching the standard 16” wheels don’t look great, but my main reason for upgrading was they fit a bespoke Bridgestone size (a van tyre size I think) which is narrower than all the others and about £180 a tyre.
I didn’t want black wheels so the Cooper S wheels were the best option, larger wheels look good but do risk damage and may ride worse, it’s firm already, plus adding more cost, it was £500 for these but bigger was £1300+
I’m very happy with it, the dealer I bought from was decent to deal with, I did get a discount on list price, and got the years free insurance (inc business use) in with the cost of the car.
I have a minor niggle on the front bonnet alignment which the dealer says they can tweak, the gap isn’t even front to back. As long as they don’t take the paint off the bolts or break the clips I’m okay with that.
Ordered at the start of April so quite a long wait but worth it.
It’s the full LCI model with the digital dash which I wanted. Sage green with black roof & mirrors, but keeping the chrome around the lights and grill.
It’s the Cooper so the basic 1.5 turbo, with cloth interior. However I then spent money on the options - premium plus pack so this adds front parking sensors, reversing camera, glass roof, auto dimming rear view and driver mirror which fold. I didn’t get the HK stereo due to the chip shortage, but this took £600 off the cost of the pack.
Then I just added asthetics. The paint, which at £795 I thought expensive but didn’t like many of the colours. Tints, dash trim, black roof rails, and the 17” Cooper S wheels.
Yes I don’t have the leather seats which are very nice, but to step up to the “exclusive” trim level which adds leather was going to add 2-3k to the price, and the only difference being the seats pretty much. That’s a 10% hike which I really couldn’t justify. It would be very easy to run away with yourself and before you know it be spending over 35k which to me was too much, I’d already had budget creep to get here!
After researching the standard 16” wheels don’t look great, but my main reason for upgrading was they fit a bespoke Bridgestone size (a van tyre size I think) which is narrower than all the others and about £180 a tyre.
I didn’t want black wheels so the Cooper S wheels were the best option, larger wheels look good but do risk damage and may ride worse, it’s firm already, plus adding more cost, it was £500 for these but bigger was £1300+
I’m very happy with it, the dealer I bought from was decent to deal with, I did get a discount on list price, and got the years free insurance (inc business use) in with the cost of the car.
I have a minor niggle on the front bonnet alignment which the dealer says they can tweak, the gap isn’t even front to back. As long as they don’t take the paint off the bolts or break the clips I’m okay with that.
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