It's a good thing you live in Va. If you were out west where it is dry as a tinder box you could have more than just sparks behind you. There could possibly be a Firestorm behind you that YOU started!! LOL

Lol!! Sounds like it would be pretty epic looking though. Everywhere my mini and i go, has desruction left behind!

I also now live in ohio, so even less of a chance of a fire.

What kind of gas mileage have you been getting? Did the dealership pull any codes from the ECU?

The right questions. If anything was wrong with the O2 sensor, a code would be thrown.

The catalytic convertor could be working fine and still be losing bits out the back. If all they did was stick a sniffer in the pipe to check emissions, then they learned nothing. In fact, they probably learned that the O2 sensor was fine.

That's what I was thinking too Joe. A faulty/non-op O2 sensor would hurt fuel economy too. Sounds like the typical MINI dealer tactic of "throw parts at them and hope they go away."

I havent been keeping track of the mileage thoroughly, my husband has been the one filling up my car lately and hasnt been resetting.(not being down on him, i forget to do it a lot as well) but i know it has been much worse than usual.

I dont remember if they said there was a ecu code or not. Would that show up on the receipt? Before i called the dealership i ran the check in the menu and it said it was ok.

Are you guys thinking something else could be wrong?

By the way, i didnt have any sparks this morning.

Awesome.

You do know that your MINI will display the average and current fuel economy, right? You don't need to calculate it yourself.

Yea, i never really think of that. I always just have it on mpf with the temp.

How accurate is the display...mine reads 44mpg...

Mine started out very optimistic, but it seems to be coming down to more in line with my actual calculated (miles traveled/gallons filled) results.

The instantaneous numbers still seem somewhat high, but the average is pretty close.

Mine is 30.9 seems pretty low to me, but i never checked it when i first bought mine.