Hello,
I've had a 58 plate mini for a few months and seem to be having nothing but problems and really need some advice please
A few weeks after I bought the car it had to go back to have the dpf light checked and a broken seal on the turbo replaced. Since then I've also had to have the wishbone bushes replaced.
The dpf light did still come on very occasionally but I just drove it like the manual stated and it went out.
The past week it has been juddering and struggling when I accelerate but yesterday was awful to the point I thought the car would stop. The only way I can describe it is if you were running out of fuel, the car jumps and lurches and has no power. When it does this I've also heard a sort of metal clanking sound when it jumps. Then it seems ok for a while. There are no warning lights coming on when it does this.
Put some injector cleaner in yesterday to see if that helped and ended up having aa breakdown out.
His computer registered two faults - 41c4 particulate filter clogged and 4530 boost pressure control deviation. He said the car could be struggling to regenerate because of the codes and it could be juddering as it tries to. He cleared the faults and took it for a road test. Came back and said it drove perfect, checked the computer again and there were no faults.
Thought everything was fine until 10 mins into a journey this morning and the juddering started again!! No warning lights again either.
Heard about dpf cleaner so thought I'd give that a try - gave it a good long run after putting it in and everything seemed ok and it ran lovely.
Went out again this afternoon and the juddering was there again but not as bad and only happened a few times
Really need some advice on what the issue could be as I'm getting worried that it's something serious and very confused????? Thanks
I've had a 58 plate mini for a few months and seem to be having nothing but problems and really need some advice please
A few weeks after I bought the car it had to go back to have the dpf light checked and a broken seal on the turbo replaced. Since then I've also had to have the wishbone bushes replaced.
The dpf light did still come on very occasionally but I just drove it like the manual stated and it went out.
The past week it has been juddering and struggling when I accelerate but yesterday was awful to the point I thought the car would stop. The only way I can describe it is if you were running out of fuel, the car jumps and lurches and has no power. When it does this I've also heard a sort of metal clanking sound when it jumps. Then it seems ok for a while. There are no warning lights coming on when it does this.
Put some injector cleaner in yesterday to see if that helped and ended up having aa breakdown out.
His computer registered two faults - 41c4 particulate filter clogged and 4530 boost pressure control deviation. He said the car could be struggling to regenerate because of the codes and it could be juddering as it tries to. He cleared the faults and took it for a road test. Came back and said it drove perfect, checked the computer again and there were no faults.
Thought everything was fine until 10 mins into a journey this morning and the juddering started again!! No warning lights again either.
Heard about dpf cleaner so thought I'd give that a try - gave it a good long run after putting it in and everything seemed ok and it ran lovely.
Went out again this afternoon and the juddering was there again but not as bad and only happened a few times
Really need some advice on what the issue could be as I'm getting worried that it's something serious and very confused????? Thanks