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Acceleration & cruise control

2002 Mini Cooper Acceleration problems

Owners have filed 4 complaints about the 2002 Mini Cooper's acceleration & cruise control with NHTSA - 1% of all its complaints, most recently on January 2, 2012. Unintended acceleration, surging, throttle problems and cruise or adaptive cruise faults.

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4
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0
Crashes
0
Fires
0
Injuries
0
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0

Acceleration complaints

Electrical systemAcceleration & cruise control

Loss of power when going 60 mph in the high speed left lane of four lane highway. Car went into "limp mode" and unable to accelerate. Car would only go 5 to 10 mph with large truck behind and bearing down on me. Eml and service engine lights on dash. Was able to pull into a construction lane that happened to be right there. Otherwise would have been unable to get car out of the way. Car needed to be towed. Fault codes list throttle body and wiring harness as problems and recommendation is to replace both. From my...

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research, the problem is well known and relates to poor connector between throttle body and wiring harness. Mini has since redesigned the angle of this connector to fix this problem. Such a loss of power while driving is extremely dangerous. Should be recall item. *Tr

Filed Incident Electrical system · Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10442050
Acceleration & cruise control

Intermittent complete loss of power for 2-3 seconds when starting from standstill.Occurs under various climatic conditions and either with cold or warm engine.Extremely dangerous when merging into traffic from a side street or intersection.*Ak

Filed Incident Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10033112
Acceleration & cruise control

Wildly stumbles while auto is stopped. It is intermittent there is on consistency to this problem. *Jb

Filed Incident Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10013797
Acceleration & cruise control

Vehicle will hestitate to accelerate and intermittently ly stall while driving. Contacted dealer.Cause unknown.*Ak

Filed Incident Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 8017526

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