[wow]

An orange engine failure light cam on this evening. The power of the car reduced and felt as if there was no turbo.

Just before the light came on i did some energetic driving.

What could be wrong? Does the dealer need to take a look?

[msh441]

Sounds like you somehow triggered the ECU to go into "limp mode".

There are a number of ways to do this. Usually surrounding heat (oil temp or coolant temp) or oil pressure (hitting the twisties or braking real hard when your oil is a bit low will cause it to slosh abound and pressure fluctuates).

After sitting a while, does it start back up and feel normal again? If not, take 'er in.

[mamba]

Happened to me once... was a 32deg celsius day, sitting in traffic with the aircon running, the yellow half full engine light came on and the car had no turbo, no power... after driving another couple of kms in limp mode I switched the car off and let it rest for half an hour... came back, restarted, the engine light flicked on but got all my power back... the engine light turned off as I drove off.

Brought the car in for it's first service (18000km) two days after and told the service adviser about the incident. They found the fault registered within the system but could not determine the cause so did nothing about it... hasn't happened since but it hasn't been as hot either...

[wow]

I have taken it in.
I have been informed that a sensor was damaged and has been replaced.

I will get the car back tomorrow

[ScoobyDoo]

This is one of the reasons that I traded in my R56 for another MINI.... to cut a very long story short after buying contaminated petrol I had to have the ECU replaced as trying to start the car when I broke down damaged the original one..... since then I had nothing but problems and I couldnt take the car over 4000rpm with out the engine management light coming on and the car going into limp home mode... on one occasion at 11pm on a Sunday night on the M6 I was on my own and had to pull onto the hard shoulder and it took 5 attempts to get the car going again

The car went into MINI on numerous occasions and it then started developing faults on the cylinders (this was when I decided enough was enough). This happened in a worse case scenario and I am convinced that it all stemmed from having to be worked on for 6 days trying to clean the crud out of my petrol tank ............

I hope you car is fine now.........