Loss of Power

[Big Brin]

Hi,

anyone had this happen before...? My sister has a Cooper S (55 reg) and today when driving along at 70 it completely lost power , she pulled over got underway again and the same thing happenned again. 4 times in all. Eventually she called our Mini recovery whohave taken it in. Anyone had experienc of this?

Rgds, Brin

[Naughty Magpie]

I had this on my 03 Cooper S and it signalled that the gearbox was about to go. Kept on going and eventually couldn't change gear, not very nice but coasted to a stop & got recovered by MINI - this was about 2.5 years ago now. All fixed by MINI at a cost of 6.5K.

Hope your MINI gets sorted. x

[ehyouwhat]

I know my Cooper S used to go into some kind of 'shutdown' mode when I was pressing on. Turning the ignition off, leaving for 10 mins and then turning back on usually did the trick. The problem was usually signified by a yellow light on the dash (transmittion light?) as well as the loss of power.

I have to say though, I only ever had the problem after the JCW kit was fitted.

[coopers]

ehyouwhat said:

I know my Cooper S used to go into some kind of 'shutdown' mode when I was pressing on. Turning the ignition off, leaving for 10 mins and then turning back on usually did the trick. The problem was usually signified by a yellow light on the dash (transmittion light?) as well as the loss of power.

I have to say though, I only ever had the problem after the JCW kit was fitted.

Isnt that your esp kicking in... i get that all the time and all i do is turn the damn esp control off lets me decide how much power is too much

[ehyouwhat]

coopers said:

ehyouwhat said:

I know my Cooper S used to go into some kind of 'shutdown' mode when I was pressing on. Turning the ignition off, leaving for 10 mins and then turning back on usually did the trick. The problem was usually signified by a yellow light on the dash (transmittion light?) as well as the loss of power.

I have to say though, I only ever had the problem after the JCW kit was fitted.

Isnt that your esp kicking in... i get that all the time and all i do is turn the damn esp control off lets me decide how much power is too much

No, I actually think it was an emissions problem.

[b.johnson]

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