My MINI E » Neutral Shift http://www.stuartistry.com/my-mini-e My experiences testing MINI's new all-electric vehicle around Long Island Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:16:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 It Was Bound To Happen Sometime http://www.stuartistry.com/my-mini-e/2009/08/26/it-was-bound-to-happen-sometime/ http://www.stuartistry.com/my-mini-e/2009/08/26/it-was-bound-to-happen-sometime/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:59:15 +0000 Stu http://www.stuartistry.com/my-mini-e/2009/08/26/it-was-bound-to-happen-sometime/ I’ve heard about it so it wasn’t a total surprise but it still made me panic. I was stopped at a red light on a slight hill and when I went to go… Oops! All I could do was roll backward. NOPETROL shifted into neutral all by her lonesome. With a truck close on my tail I started working fast.

First, I hit the Off button. Then I tried to turn the car back on and realized I was still in Drive so I had to start all over again. The line behind me started getting impatient so I put on the four-ways. Then I shifted to Park, restarted and shifted to Drive. As the pissed off truck driver tried to maneuver around me, I finally got out of his way and made my left turn.

I hope the computer recorded the event and that this problem, which happened many times to other Pioneers, will be fixed with a software update at check-up time.

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