Driving home tonight from a night on the town with my old lady. Suddenly hit a massive bump in the road, and jolted the car badly. A few seconds later the car dies, and I coast it into a parking lot. I look things over, trying to find loose connections ect.... but the car won't turn over. Eventually a cop arrives and gives me a lift back home. I head over to Wally World and buy a can of ether and head back over to the scene of the car problem. I have my old lady turn the car over while I spray it in the intake and the car fires right up. I check all the fuel lines and nothing appears to be pinched, I look for loose connections on the gas tank. But nothing appears to be out of whack, so i'm guessing the fuel pump took a crap on me. Why why why Time to order some parts from GB and try to fix the problem.

 

isnt the rx7 supposed to die..and the mini stays alive

 

Yeah thats what I told my girlfriend. "we're driving the unreliable car to fix the reliable car"

 

It was a bad bump. As soon as I hit it, I said OH ****. The mini is bouncy enough as it is, don't need to hit speed bump sized mounds in the road doing 50mph.

 

if you bounced hard a bunch of little things could of happened to cause that but i dont think anything majorly bad. although any problem is a bad thing



kevin.

 

hrmm...thats strange. ill ask my dad wha he thinks caused it (his first car was a mini that he went pretty crazy tuning)

 

o heres a pic of a mini that i always liked

 

i bet you could park the mini on the back of the pickup

 

I don't know anything about MINIs but it sounds like a fuel cut off switch (for accidents)tripped when you hit the bump before you pay anyone to (fix) the problem look in the owners manual to see if it says anything about it or look in the trunk area for instructions on how to reset it(thats where ford put some of them)

hope this helps you

 

The fuel cut of switch usually trips on frontal and rear end crashes, and he wouldn't be able to fire it back up without un-tripping the switch, so I think that's out of the question!!!