Engine Drivetrain 2nd Gen S Most liked posts in thread: How does your Mini idle??

How many miles km does the car have on it? How is it driven...all city, all highway or a mixture? Maybe it just needs an Italian tune-up!

 

:cornut: My Margi( 08 R56 MCS/JCWm) has done this since the day that I got her 4yrs ago. A good spirited/Italian hwy run(after 'Seafoaming' her) and she purrs like a kitten. It's a Mini, no 2 are alike and none of them are like those other 'lesser cars.' All of them also have their very own little tiny 'glitch' which they may or may not share with other MINIs.

Jason

 

You have an "S", so this may not apply at all, but my justa does that. Idles between 720 & 650 up and down. Always has and never really been a problem. It got a bit worse around 36K miles and I found the plugs were shot. Got 58K on her now and she runs fine.

Jim

 

My Cooper has done this since it was new, too.

 

MCS 2011- Idle hunting on cold start, but usually goes away when it warms up after some "italian" running. :wink: I consider it a MINI quirk.

 

Babs R55 justaclubman has a stable idle.

 

not as stable as a year ago after the carbon was first blasted off, but not bad. It just has a little hiccup every few seconds.

 

My 2011 MCS R56 does this too, but will be fine after 30 seconds of idle and then pulling up the hill of my driveway (short but steep).

For some reason it has gotten better after the FMIC install...

 

My MINI does have a pulsating idle from time to time. When that happens, I just give it a small amount of throttle to stabilize the idle. After a few seconds, the idle returns to 'normal.' I've got about 2800 miles now.

 

My MINI has an impatient idle.

 

My 2013 S does the same thing, seems the idle is chasing itself some times.
I have 13K miles, plugs are one step colder ( so that may be part of it ) and I Italian tune up daily.

 

After having this R-56 for a few years I believe it is the changing from summer to winter fuels and the ECU taking time to catch up to the changes.

Now that summer fuels have been running through it for a couple of months the rough idle has disappeared.

 

I think mine is just lazy. Won't look for a job. Just hangs around the garage idling away his time.


ostcount

 

Don't fret the small stuff!

It's freakin' computer driven, what do you expect!? Mine has a erratic idle at times, but it never lasts. Heck, once it warms up it runs like a swiss watch.