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Tobes · Jul 18th, 2008, 08:44 AM

LAst night i pulled up at home and put into neutral and auto stop kicked in and at the same time the navigation display went purple and said Auto Start/ Stop Deactivated I tries putting it in gear and the engine didnt start.

Restarted with start button and tried a few parking moves to see if it would auto start and stop which it didnt Tried manually turning off an on the function to no avail

rAr was fully warmed up. So do you reckon its a Malfunction or just one of the times when it doesnt alwarys work.

Had the car for a few months and had never seen the purple warning that it had been 'deactivated'

Any ideas?

Cheers

Tobes

Tunster · Jul 18th, 2008, 08:53 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Tobes (original)

LAst night i pulled up at home and put into neutral and auto stop kicked in and at the same time the navigation display went purple and said Auto Start/ Stop Deactivated I tries putting it in gear and the engine didnt start.

Restarted with start button and tried a few parking moves to see if it would auto start and stop which it didnt Tried manually turning off an on the function to no avail

rAr was fully warmed up. So do you reckon its a Malfunction or just one of the times when it doesnt alwarys work.

Had the car for a few months and had never seen the purple warning that it had been 'deactivated'

Any ideas?

Cheers

Tobes

Did you take your seat belt off before restarting it? If you take your belt off, it won't reactivate using the clutch pedal and disables it as so as you experienced. I assume you did having stopped when pulling up at home.

If you didn't, then you may have a similar problem like Supa-Dupa-Cooper did (a clutch sensor issue). I'm sure she'll pop along to blurt out her distresses in full detail.

Tobes · Jul 18th, 2008, 09:12 AM

Tnster

Thanks for the message. I bet it was the seatbelt . Will check when im home tonight

Cheers

CooperDee · Jul 18th, 2008, 12:14 PM

You also need to go over 4mph for it to work. Shuffling back and forward in a parking space wont result in it engaging.

supa-dupa-cooper · Jul 18th, 2008, 12:21 PM

Where do I start?!

If you take off your belt then the car wont re-start (this is one of the things MINI were trying to say I was doing

)

Mine failed to re-start very randomly, and as Tunster said they had the car for a week and decided it was the clutch sensor which wasnt having enough signals and so replaced it.

I'd better not say anymore....im not allowed to talk about MY (

) old car now I no longer have it, only seems to get me accused of allsorts these days

Tobes · Jul 18th, 2008, 01:32 PM

definitely reckon it was the seatbelt - would be helpful to say in the nav screen message that it had been deactivated because i had taken the seatbelt off but perhaps asking too much.

I actually dont mind the start stop feature and tend to let it stop if i can see that will be stopped for 15 seconds or more.

Anything helps (to help save a bit of fuel) Trouble is right foot over eager. That would make the biggest difference to MPG if only I was disciplined!

Do the regenerative brakes make any meaingfull improvement to mpg?

Jul 18th, 2008, 08:44 AM	#1
Tobes MINI2 Senior My Classifieds Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Hertfordshire Local Time: 06:43 AM Posts: 525 Offline	Auto Start/Stop LAst night i pulled up at home and put into neutral and auto stop kicked in and at the same time the navigation display went purple and said Auto Start/ Stop Deactivated I tries putting it in gear and the engine didnt start. Restarted with start button and tried a few parking moves to see if it would auto start and stop which it didnt Tried manually turning off an on the function to no avail rAr was fully warmed up. So do you reckon its a Malfunction or just one of the times when it doesnt alwarys work. Had the car for a few months and had never seen the purple warning that it had been 'deactivated' Any ideas? Cheers Tobes

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supa-dupa-cooper In S Club Heaven!! Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Cloud MINI Local Time: 06:43 AM Posts: 20,415 Offline	Where do I start?! If you take off your belt then the car wont re-start (this is one of the things MINI were trying to say I was doing ) Mine failed to re-start very randomly, and as Tunster said they had the car for a week and decided it was the clutch sensor which wasnt having enough signals and so replaced it. I'd better not say anymore....im not allowed to talk about MY () old car now I no longer have it, only seems to get me accused of allsorts these days * The Italian Job 2008......Team 50 - Website Here!* UNION JACK OWNERS CLUB GB002 Last edited by supa-dupa-cooper : Jul 18th, 2008 at 05:25 PM.

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Jul 18th, 2008, 08:53 AM	#2 (permalink)
Tunster MCS AB Owner! =D Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Essex, England Local Time: 06:43 AM Posts: 310 Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by Tobes (original) LAst night i pulled up at home and put into neutral and auto stop kicked in and at the same time the navigation display went purple and said Auto Start/ Stop Deactivated I tries putting it in gear and the engine didnt start. Restarted with start button and tried a few parking moves to see if it would auto start and stop which it didnt Tried manually turning off an on the function to no avail rAr was fully warmed up. So do you reckon its a Malfunction or just one of the times when it doesnt alwarys work. Had the car for a few months and had never seen the purple warning that it had been 'deactivated' Any ideas? Cheers Tobes Did you take your seat belt off before restarting it? If you take your belt off, it won't reactivate using the clutch pedal and disables it as so as you experienced. I assume you did having stopped when pulling up at home. If you didn't, then you may have a similar problem like Supa-Dupa-Cooper did (a clutch sensor issue). I'm sure she'll pop along to blurt out her distresses in full detail.

Jul 18th, 2008, 09:12 AM	#3 (permalink)
Tobes MINI2 Senior My Classifieds Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Hertfordshire Local Time: 06:43 AM Posts: 525 Offline	Tnster Thanks for the message. I bet it was the seatbelt . Will check when im home tonight Cheers

Jul 18th, 2008, 12:14 PM	#4 (permalink)
CooperDee MINI2 Regular Join Date: Nov 2007 Local Time: 06:43 AM Posts: 69 Offline	You also need to go over 4mph for it to work. Shuffling back and forward in a parking space wont result in it engaging.

Jul 18th, 2008, 01:32 PM	#6 (permalink)
Tobes MINI2 Senior My Classifieds Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Hertfordshire Local Time: 06:43 AM Posts: 525 Offline	definitely reckon it was the seatbelt - would be helpful to say in the nav screen message that it had been deactivated because i had taken the seatbelt off but perhaps asking too much. I actually dont mind the start stop feature and tend to let it stop if i can see that will be stopped for 15 seconds or more. Anything helps (to help save a bit of fuel) Trouble is right foot over eager. That would make the biggest difference to MPG if only I was disciplined! Do the regenerative brakes make any meaingfull improvement to mpg?

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