July 27, 2004:

GBMINI “in bed with the flu”

Last night heading home from work, GBMINI suddenly did a strange sort of “engine kick”. Immediately after the “EML” and “Service Engine Soon” lights came on, and there was a very noticeable loss of power
Stopped as soon as safe, then restarted - the “EML” light was off again but the “Check Engine” was still on. The engine sounded fine, and drove fine on the way home.
So today I stopped in at MINI Peabody, since I was meeting Gavin & Chris there for lunch anyway. When I described the symptoms, Gary immediately diagnosed an out-of-spec throttle, and a check of the diagnostic logs confirmed this.
So GBMINI is at the MINI Peabody hospital tonight, having minor surgery - hopefully tomorrow all will be well once more!
Chris with his MCS: