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2015 Mini Cooper Acceleration problems

Owners have filed 2 complaints about the 2015 Mini Cooper's acceleration & cruise control with NHTSA - 4% of all its complaints, most recently on December 13, 2016. They describe 1 crash, 0 fires and 0 injuries. Unintended acceleration, surging, throttle problems and cruise or adaptive cruise faults.

Complaints
2
Recalls
0
Crashes
1
Fires
0
Injuries
0
Deaths
0

Acceleration complaints

Acceleration & 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
Transmission & 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

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