My little MINI has always been the happy part of my week, which is why this has bothered me so much. I have a 2012 MINI Cooper with the automatic gearbox, and for about a month now it shudders when I creep in traffic, like it is driving over a bumpy road even when the street is smooth. Sometimes it also jumps a little when I pull away from a red light, and last Wednesday there was a short whining sound when I accelerated up a ramp at the mall. My sister borrowed the car and said it feels tired, which was not nice to hear, but she might be right. My neighbor thinks it is just the gearbox oil, since I have never changed it and the car has around 110,000 kilometers. A guy at my gym said these small gearboxes can be sensitive and that a cheap fix can turn into an expensive one if you wait. I did not want to guess, so I read about it one evening and opened a page about MINI Cooper cars on a Sharjah website to learn how the gearbox, the oil and the clutch parts work together. It explained that rough shifting at low speed can come from old fluid or worn parts, and that a proper check starts with a scan and a road test. That made things less scary for me. Then my cousin, who owns a Countryman, said I should look for the Best MINI Cooper transmission service in Sharjah, but when I asked him how to know which one is best, he just said to ask around. That is not much help. So I have a few questions. Is a shudder at low speed usually a sign of worn clutch parts, or can an oil change fix it? Is it risky to change the oil on a gearbox that has never been serviced, or is that a myth? What should a garage show me after the scan so I know they did a real check? And how long does a basic gearbox service take, because I use the car for work every day? If this happened on your MINI, please tell me what the cause was and roughly what you paid. Thanks a lot.

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