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Had the Cooper flatbedded to Best Motor Werks in Columbus. I'm PRAYING that all it needs is a tranny fluid change and NOT a new tranny. :cryin:

 

Say a little prayer!

Good luck with this one..... You have been nursing this one for quite some time. :nonod:

 

Battery Charger. What else!

 

Straightened the car cover under which it hibernates in my garage.

 

I don't want it either, but it sure is fun to play in! [emoji2]

 

60 degrees here today.......and I'm OK with that!

 

Sure is! But my glasses are permanently fogged up and I can't feel my toes anymore so I'm going inside

 

Praying and hoping for a "Christmas Miracle". R50 is at the "Doctor" and the diagnosis looks pretty iffy. :cryin:

 

Nothing. I've been working away from home for the last 6 - 7 weeks, and the Coop is under a dust cover in my garage. :sad: Plus I'm driving a rental POS Camry. Oh, the humanity!!!

 

We have a "Waldo" too, it's part of the KC Mid-town....

 

Guessing your Waldo may have KC BBQ. Ours has fried baloney.

 

Went out to take my 11yo grandson to see Star Wars. Just him and me...BUT, the batttery in Pepper was deader than a doornail. Seems some idiot didn't turn off the parking lights. Got home and jump started it and everything seems fine except my scangauge which lights up...but doesn't display anything. I am going to take the battery out tomorrow and charge it. That will reboot the computers,,,am I right?

BTW...is it safe to leave the lights on Auto? Thanks

 

My R50 had to be initialized during its Columbus experience this week. A new battery was installed when the old one just was not providing enough voltage and it messed up the computer. Perhaps that is what you will have to have done to your MINI.

I have daytime running lights , so I cannot really be of any help there.

 

So, why did it go into limp mode?

One of the two CVT's I mentioned has done many track days, the other just gets driven - a lot! The key in both case to me is that both have had regular fluid changes at the dealer.

 

ALL of my 3 MINIs have been always regularly serviced at the dealer. The R50 in question had the transmission fluid replaced in late March [2015], right before MOTD. The car was proclaimed by MAG [the dealer] as "good to go". We had a good time to, at and on the way home from MOTD, as well as all thru the Summer and early Fall until THIS incident.

 

the red Mini got some new hatch struts and a fresh air filter this weekend, swapped it's rear seat with my black vinyl seats, washed and waxed it in the driveway (Dec 20 in Wisconsin, I think our climate change skeptics are pretty quiet this month).

vacuumed the car, patched the sagging headliner with some fabric spray glue until we can figure out how to replace the whole thing. Cleaned 10 years of plastic outgassing from windows, sun tan lotion from steering wheel and radio volume know.

Wasted 2 hours on the built-in garage door opener - it certainly doesn't communicate with the 2007 craftsman opener I have. Then wondered about how to pair a phone with it's radio, given there are phone buttons on the steering wheel. Could not find anything in the manual that talks about that feather. My other 2005 doesn't have these buttons nor does it have a garage opener.

 

Finished the clutch job on this poor rusted Mini Clubman, found the right front wheel bearing is dead too.....notice how the wheel is canted? It will move that much or more the other way too, it's like the inner wheel bearing is completely missing.

 

^ details?

 

Nice, glad you removed the stripes. Never been a fan of the pinstripe strips that MINI uses.