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Mini Cooper S Acceleration problems by year

8 complaints filed with NHTSA about the Mini Cooper S's acceleration & cruise control. Unintended acceleration, surging, throttle problems and cruise or adaptive cruise faults.

Acceleration complaints by model year

YearAcceleration complaintsCrashesInjuriesRecalls
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Latest Cooper S acceleration complaints

2025 Mini Cooper SAcceleration & cruise control

Two things I noticed. 1. Going from a complete stop such as when waiting at a red light or stop sign, and then pressing the accelerator intermittently causes the vehicle to not respond. I see the power gauge max out but the car does not move and worse if on a hill will roll backwards before lurching forward. 2. When on the highway going 40-50 mph, I want to change lanes or pass someone, I press the accelerator and the car slows down/disengages before lurching forward. This makes tighter timing impossible and puts...

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my safety at risk if I begin the lane change not anticipating the drop in speed/power from the car. I have taken the car to the service dept at Mini several times for this issue as it has been occuring since I purchased the vehicle. I was told no error codes were found.

Filed Incident Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 11767951
2020 Mini Cooper SAcceleration & cruise controlBrakesEngine & coolingCrash1 injury

I was pulling into a parking spot slowly and all of the sudden the car took off and took off and I couldn't stop and when I tried to sped hard on the break it wouldn't work and I lost control and my car wouldn't stop until it crashed into another vehicle that was sitting in another parking spot.

Filed Incident Vehicle speed control · Service brakes · EngineNHTSA 11669081
2017 Mini Cooper SAcceleration & cruise controlEngine & cooling

Tl* the contact owns a 2017 mini cooper s. While driving and attempting to stop, the vehicle accelerated. The vehicle was towed to freeport mini cooper (280 sunrise hwy, freeport, ny 11520, (516) 665-1246) to be diagnosed, but the failure could not be duplicated. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and had a specialist examine the vehicle; however, the failure could not be duplicated. The failure mileage was 15,000.

Filed Incident Vehicle speed control · EngineNHTSA 11209703
2015 Mini Cooper SAcceleration & cruise controlBrakesEngine & coolingCrash

I made a right turn from the main street, into the parking lot of a strip mall, then an immediate left turn, and another right turn into the right angle parking slot. All the while having my foot on the brakes, I started to shift into park, when it was in the right spot. The mini instead coming to a stop, revved up, jumped the curb and hit the store in the front. The air bags deployed. I had my foot on the brakes really hard, all the time but the brake pedals were locked up. It would not move up or down. Sat hard...

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on the floor! When the tow truck came, the brakes were still locked up and the gear was in park and couldn't be moved from there. The seat belts couldn't be retracted either. Mini engineer claims that there is nothing wrong with the car and I can safely drive it after the body is repaired. I am having a difficult time with this conclusion. The car's brakes and gear were locked up, and had to be lifted on a flatbed and taken to the repair shop; I still maintain something within the car malfunctioned. *Tr

Filed Incident Vehicle speed control · Service brakes · EngineNHTSA 10935157
2015 Mini Cooper STransmission & drivetrainAcceleration & cruise control

Cpsc: mini cooper: consumer stated the cruise control would disengage. *Ss the consumer stated discovered when using the clutch and down shifting the cruise control did not disengage. The first time he tried the cruise control, while down shifting the vehicle maintained speed and shot forward instead of slowing down. *Jb

Filed Incident Power train · Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10807019
2004 Mini Cooper STransmission & drivetrainAcceleration & cruise controlEngine & cooling

I have a 2004 mini cooper it has recently reached 87000 miles and the cvt transmission is failing. Normally you change your transmission fuel every 25,000 to 50,000 miles. My model mini cooper hatchback does not come with a reservoir to change such a fuel it was a guarantee by the manufacturer that these models would not need such a service and that the transmission would be fine throughout the lifetime of the car. What worries me is that I have not been able to drive my mini over 50mph due to the increase of...

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rpm's. Without the speed increase it is not safe for me to drive on the highways as I normally would. A cvt transmission replacement could cost thousands. But more importantly I'm worried about my safety its possible that my transmission could fail while mobile. Thats my main concern. I recently read that there has been a lawsuit addressing these issues. It is bmw's due diligence to address this matter seeing how thousands of citizens are operating this machinery on a daily basis. *Tr

Filed Incident Power train · Vehicle speed control · EngineNHTSA 10551846
2009 Mini Cooper SAcceleration & cruise controlFuel system

Car stopped accelerating as I was driving (twice this has happened - in a bend in the road--very scary). Also, around this time, could not start up the car--car engine was attempting to turn over but wouldn't until about my 6th attempt. I never had problems starting my car before. I might add that recently, before I had this problem, I have noticed that my vehicle does not have the fast pick up that it use to. *Tr

Filed Incident Vehicle speed control · Fuel / propulsion systemNHTSA 10473711

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