R53 running bad after driving in the rain

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Aug 24, 2012 | 02:03 PM
  #1  
I drove through a monsoon (Ok maybe it was just heavy rain) the other day commuting to work. My mini started missing and I couldn't get the rpm's over 1k. I pulled over and let it dry out. I was able to get to work but it was stalling at stop lights, and just not running very well. When I got it home I pulled the plug boots and made sure everything was dry. Now for a week it still will stall at stop lights (about 5% of the time) It misses a bit when under a load but above 2k it seems ok.
I checked codes and get 0107 which points to the map sensor.. I could try replacing that, but sometimes the sensor isn't the problem, it is just reporting a bad condition. Any ideas?
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Aug 24, 2012 | 02:08 PM
  #2  
perhaps I should try this..

http://www.mini2.com/forum/first-gen...e-how-fix.html
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Aug 25, 2012 | 08:15 AM
  #3  
Did you check your airfilter......some cai can get a wet filter. If this happened you got lucky...extremly heavy rain injested into the motor can cause it to fail....one of the risks of a open cone type cai.
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