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Driving Las Vegas

Posted on April 6, 2005February 15, 2017 by Ian C.

(I am slacking, I should have posted these pics last week!)

While I was in Las Vegas on vacation recently, I delivered some auto-up-windows MINI circuits to Sin City MINI Club; Agro met me at the Mandalay Bay hotel, and very kindly took me for a drive along the Las Vegas strip in a MINI 🙂

Minolta DSC

Thank you Agro; hope the MINI circuits all installed easily!

Red meeting

Posted on April 6, 2005February 11, 2017 by Ian C.

At MINI Peabody today, while investigating the service engine soon light and getting the bad grounding block fixed, I met Dan with his Chili Red GO-MINI:

Minolta DSC

Dan is a great MINI and Mini owner – he has two classic Minis (one an Innocenti) as well as this one!

Service Engine Soon (again!)

Posted on April 5, 2005February 11, 2017 by Ian C.

When I picked up GBMINI#3 from Sublime Restorations last week, the “SES” light was on – I dropped in to MINI Peabody and they did various tests and cleared the light.
Tonight on the way into town for dinner, the light came on again 😦

GBMINI#3 SES light

So I guess I will be back to MINI Peabody soon – hope this is not going to be a regular occurrence …

UPDATE: On the way to MINI Peabody the light cleared itself; nevertheless the log as read by the techs showed an “O2 sensor” fault.
Apparently, as Todd wrote in the comments, there is a known issue / interaction between the automatic transmission control algorithms and the engine computer – see this MINI internal service measure:

Since it was written, the issue has been partly identified and the dealership does not now need to hold the car; but a software fix under development is not yet available.