Dislike. Did the dealer tell you what it could be or did they at least read the OBD code? That very poorly worded error message could be anything from something serious to just your 12V battery crapping out...
They did look at the codes and told me it is something that should be looked at but I didn’t ask for any specifics. I was in a parking lot not moving when it popped up. It would not let me drive. So I waited and called the roadside line and they were prepared to send a tow truck. But the car eventually let me move it. The dealership was only .25 miles from where I was so I just took it there to let them see what that was all about. Sent from my iPhone using Inside EVs
Remind me...the MINI can't be towed, can it? Hopefully it would have worked out, but twice in my life I have bad experiences with towing companies not understanding the specific demands of the job they were supposed to perform. The first time, they showed up without the deep, thin-walled socket needed to change the flat of the Mercedes of the realtor showing me around, even though they were informed that it was specifically the lack of that tool that required her to call a towing service in the first place. The second time, they showed up with a tow truck too tall to extract my wife's SUV from an underground parking garage, even though the height restriction was clearly conveyed to them. Sorry...apparently I'm still bearing the scars of those experiences!
That's what I thought. Thanks for confirming (and I recognize that J.Dubs may have been using "tow truck" euphemistically).
We've had discussions on this board about this and, manual notwithstanding, nobody can think of a reason not to tow by lifting the front wheels, only. The aft wheels freewheel. Many RV drivers use Coopers as dinghies, using dollies for the front wheels.
There's certainly not much rear overhang to worry people who put their own MINIs onto a dolly behind an RV, but I'd worry about some random, bed-less tow-truck driver finding a way to damage my MINI on the way to the shop.
Sorry to resurrect this thread a week later, but can you elaborate on what "the computer didn't like"?
No idea. That’s just what the dealer told me. They reset the computer and I haven’t had any further issues
I am going to have my trusted body cum mechanic shop to do my winter tires. We planned for no TPMS. I hope that this doesnt happen to me
