Spa Excellence

Posted on by Ian C.

Today I took GBMINI back to MINI Peabody to get the SES light solved; as suspected it was a return of the spurious fault P0136 and hopefully the software update will eliminate the issue.
While I was there I also had GBMINI properly “spa cleaned”; MINI Peabody charges a reasonable $129 and the results were stunning when I picked up the car this evening (shame it was raining so hard on the way home!)

GBMINI#3 spa
GBMINI#3 spa
GBMINI#3 spa
GBMINI#3 spa
GBMINI#3 spa
GBMINI#3 spa
GBMINI#3 spa
GBMINI#3 spa
GBMINI#3 spa inside too
GBMINI#3 spa inside too
GBMINI#3 spa inside too
GBMINI#3 spa inside too

I am so pleased with the results 🙂

I know I can do my own thing with Zaino but here I did nothing (except hand over a credit card) and got fabulous results – GBMINI looks brand new again! Actually it was particularly nice of MINI Peabody to park the car in the delivery area, keeping it out of the rain, because I never had a true delivery with pics, so now these pics can substitute!

One other thing that I had done today was to switch the tailights from the USA all-red version to the European red/yellow version:

Minolta DSC
Minolta DSC
Minolta DSC

Gabe recently switched his to clear/white but I don’t like that look too much; but when following the links to MikeyTheMINIs NewMINIstuff web site I found that he also sells the (European) stock ’05 taillights, which have a yellow flasher in place of the red one that USA cars have …
So I ordered some, they came quickly, and now they are installed … little differences that make each MINI unique 😉

The return of SES

Posted on by Ian C.

Soon after I got GBMINI#3, it threw the Service Engine Soon light a couple of times – apparently a bug with the automatic transmission interacting with the fault detection software.
At my first service, I refused a software update, having read of some negative side-effects (like “limp home”!); also GBMINI had not thrown any more faults.

Until today, that is …

GBMINI#3 SES fault (again)

Everything seems to be running correctly, so this is probably another spurious fault code – but of course I can’t be sure. Hopefully it will clear itself tomorrow; if not a trip to MINI Peabody will be needed, and I will probably have to get the software update.