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......... |