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milestonemotors · 3 years ago

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What Causes Your Mini Cooper Engine to Sputter?

What does engine sputtering mean?

Simply put, sputtering feels like your vehicle's engine is choking or struggling to stay operational. It might vibrate intensively, stall, struggle to accelerate, and make strange popping noise while in operation. An empty gas tank can make the engine sputter. But, if your Mini Cooper's gas tank is full, then the problem lies deep inside the system that needs your immediate attention.

What causes an engine to sputter?

Engine sputtering in your Mini Cooper can be really scary. It could simply mean your Mini is about to run out of fuel. But, it could also be the case of having a malfunctioning fuel delivery system, defective ignition system, worn-out air intake system, or a bad exhaust system. Whatever the reasons might be, it can cause irreparable damages to your vehicle's engine. So, if your Mini Cooper's engine is sputtering or exhibiting similar behavior, then run a complete diagnostic to find out and troubleshoot the problem.

Let’s dig deep into it and find out some of the most common reasons why Mini Cooper’s engine sputters.

Engine sputtering when starting

It could mean a lot of things; one reason is having an empty gas tank. So, check if your Mini has a sufficient amount of fuel. Disruption in fuel supply to the combustion chamber due to a damaged fuel delivery system is another major reason why your Mini's engine might sputter when starting. So, check if the fuel pump, fuel filter, and fuel injectors are in good shape. Poor quality fuel can also make the engine sputter.

Besides, interruption in air supply to the combustion chamber due to a malfunctioning air-intake system can also make your Mini's engine sputter. Having a clogged air filter, mass airflow sensor, or throttle body can obstruct the air supply to the engine and hinder its ability to operate smoothly.

Engine sputtering when accelerating

Usually, it happens due to an empty gas tank. So, the first thing you have to do is to check the gas tank. If your Mini has an ample amount of fuel, then the problem might be something else that needs to be taken care of. Having a bad catalytic converter can make your vehicle's engine sputter when accelerating. The job of a catalytic converter is to convert harmful exhaust emissions to eco-friendly gases. However, a clogged or broken catalytic converter can block the exhaust gas passageway, as a result of this the engine might struggle to accelerate and sputter.

A troublesome mass airflow sensor and oxygen sensor can also cause the engine to sputter when accelerating your Mini. The data provided by these sensors help the engine control module or ECM to regulate the air-fuel ratio within the combustion chamber. However, inaccurate data provided by faulty sensors tricks the ECU to constraint the fuel supply, resulting in engine sputtering when accelerating.

Engine sputtering when in gear

It happens when the oxygen sensor feeds inaccurate data to your Mini's ECM. An oxygen sensor is a vital part of your car's emission control system. It essentially measures the oxygen concentration in the exhaust emission. The ECM uses this data to regulate the air-fuel ratio within the engine accordingly. The imbalanced air-fuel ratio within the engine due to a failing oxygen sensor can make the engine sputter and run rough.

Besides, the evidence also suggests that having worn-out spark plugs can also make the engine sputter when your Mini is in gear. So, check if the spark plugs are working properly and if necessary consider installing new ones.

Sputtering engine when idle

It is evident that your Mini Cooper’s engine has a vacuum leak. An ideal air to fuel ratio (Lambda) within the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine is 14.7:1. The ECU regulates the air intake and fuel delivery system accordingly to maintain an ideal Lambda valve. However, a vacuum leak can bring inconsistency to the Lambda valve, as a result of which the engine might sputter when idle.

It is also noteworthy that, having a bad EGR valve can also cause a similar problem in your Mini Cooper. The EGR valve is supposed to recirculate exhaust gases back to the combustion chamber. By doing so, it minimizes the emission of unburnt hydrocarbons into the atmosphere. However, a defective valve might interrupt the engine's operation and make it sputter when idle.

How to stop engine sputtering in your Mini Cooper?

If left unaddressed, it can cause irreparable damages to your Mini Cooper’s engine. So, if you are experiencing such problems, then schedule an appointment with a trusted auto repair center in your area to diagnose and fix the problem.

In conclusion

The engine generates the mechanical torque required to keep your vehicle in motion. Having said that, a sputtering engine can bring your Mini Cooper to a halt which can leave you stranded in the middle of nowhere. So, take suitable precautionary measures to keep the engine in working order.

#mini cooper #car service #car mechanic #car engine

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loadingjp597 · 3 years ago

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IMO for Mac pc: With the help of IMO for Mac we can able to stay connected with our friends, Imo families and relations no matter whatever may be the distance IMO for Mac pc is not just a social app by which we can send a message to the people worth to us. This is a TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW of a new development tool for Maemo. MADDE stands for Maemo Application Development and Debugging Environment and offers the following features: Command-line cross-compiling Multi-platform support (Linux (32-bit/64-bit), Windows, Mac OS X) Configurable for different targets & toolchains. Maemo Community e.V. Invitation to the General Assembly 01/2015 Nomination period closed for Q4 2014 council election Announcement of the Q4 2014 Community Council election. GPE is a suite of applications that was ported to Maemo. Search for GPE in the downloads section for your version of Maemo. (You'll probably want GPE Calendar, GPE Contacts, gpesyncd to start with.) These are standalone applications, there's no integration with the Maemo address book. You'll not find data from GPE in the Mail client or Chat.

Download

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Editors & Converters

The Nokia 770, N800 andN810are 'Internet Tablets'running Maemo: a handheld Linux distribution based on Debian.

Although there is acommand line flasher availablefor Mac OS X from Maemo, there's no officialGUI interface for it. This has been written usingPlatypus and CocoaDialog and is, of course,supplied with no warranty.

This is not affiliated with Nokia and so if your machine turns into amongoose and starts dancing ballet, don'tblame me. Or blame me, but don't complain - or, more importantly, sue.

Usage

Download the latestNokia image (large file ending in .bin, for exampleNokia_770_0.2005.45-8.bin) and either selectthis file when prompted by 770Flasher, or just drag the file on to the770Flasher icon.

Screenshot

770Flasher-2.0.dmg(Mac OS X disk image, 361K, requires 10.3 or above)

tablet-encode (aka 770-encode)

770-encode has now been renamed tablet-encodeand moved to a larger project called mediautils.

Due to the unreliability of garage.maemo.org, there is a mirror here:

mediaserv

mediaserv is a project which allows you to convert, on-the-fly,video from a Linux, Unix or Mac OS X box and watch it on your Nokia InternetTablet. It even integrates with VideoCenter.

Like tablet-encode, this is part of mediautils.

Due to the unreliability of garage.maemo.org, there is a mirror here:

mediaserv.tar.gz(Perl tarball, v0.05, 29K)

mud-builder

MUD is anauto-builder, designed to make it easier for people to port, in a simple andmaintainable fashion, software to Maemo; customising the resulting packages toMaemo's subtle requirements.

More info can be found on its Garage page.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is anexcellent online resource and tied with a network connection through aNokia 770 is almost equivalent to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.Although not yet available offline for Maemo, it is possible to enhanceWikipedia to make it look better on the 770's screen.

The default skin contains a long left-hand column, however by creatingan account with Wikipedia (which is free), you can change the 'skin'to one more suited to a device such as the 770.

Default style

'MySkin' style

Usage

Create an account on Wikipedia.

Go to the URL, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:YourUserName/myskin.css.='detail'>

Paste the code below into the text area andclick Save:

/* <pre><nowiki>*/ @import url('http://www.bleb.org/software/maemo/wikipedia/myskin.css'); /* </nowiki></pre> */

Go to your Preferences page and selectthe Skin category.

Select MySkin and click Save.

Backgrounds

Under development

I've currently got the following under development. For each there is a short description and links to screenshots and photos. If you have any questions on them, please don't hesitate to contact me. Updates will be provided in my diary.

Better Maemo planet layout

I don't like the new MaemoPlanet that much. I've developed a user style for Firefox to turnit into this.

ArcEm

Acorn Archimedes emulator, allowing RISC OS to be run on an ARM device inyour pocket. [1], [2],[photo 1], [photo 2].

NetSurf

A lightweight open source web browser, for when Opera is deciding to betempremental. [1], [2], [3], [photo].

Galculator

A scientific calculator. No screenshots available, but a straight-forward port of a Glade application.

Java

Following on from Alexander Lash's work porting JamVM/Classpath/Jikesto Maemo, I've some thoughts on auto-Hildonisation of Javaapplications which could help make Java a suitable high-level language forMaemo application development.

Older stuff

Sylpheed

Sylpheed is a full-featured email client: supporting POP3,IMAP, SSL and everything else you'd expect. The full feature list can beseen at the Sylpheed homepage.

This is a port and Hildonisation of Sylpheed to integrate it as a properMaemo application. It's not finished, and so should be viewedas an alpha-release. You may be better off using Claws or (even better, hopefully)Modest.

Known bugs

Not all windows are Hildonised yet (that is, many have menubars ratherthan pop-up menus, and so on).

Fix dependencies on N800 to avoid start-up problem (see this solution in the mean time).

Full-screen button doesn't work.

Some windows appear too small, others too big.

Select from middle of direction pad should open message in proper viewwindow.

Problems with (some?) LDAP servers.

...

Limitations

No GPG support as yet.

Address book functionality removed due to a bug.

Built-in FAQ, manual and support for non-English languages removed forspace reasons.

Screenshots

sylpheed.deb(Maemo v2 package, v2.2.0rc-3, 511K)

Rebuilding from source

If the binary above whets your appetite for Maemo development,and you want to help with this port, the Maemo port is being maintained in aSubversion repository.

Username/password: guest/guest.[Browse the source]

Synchronisation and backup using rsync & make

Please note this has not been updated for 2006 OS,instead I prefer bind-mounts, however it is easily customisable.

The built-in backup/restore tool doesn't backup all yourdevice's configuration or installed applications. This script (aMakefile)meets those requirements and allows for maintaining patched parts of the rootfilesystem across firmware upgrades.

Usage

Requires rsync and SSH (on both 770 & hostcomputer) and make on the host.

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To 'install' the script:

Create a new, empty directory, on a Unix-like box (e.g. Mac OS X,Linux, *BSD, Windows with cygwin) and ensure you have rsync, make and SSHinstalled.

Download Makefile.770sync and move it to thenew directory, named Makefile.

Modify the line beginning REMOTE_DEVICE topoint to your 770. For example, my 770 has a fixed IP, I have root accesson it (by enablingR&D mode) and Dropbear is running on port 22 (the default), thereforethe line in my local copy says:

There are three 'targets' which can be executed to act onyour device. To execute them, run the following command:

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make target

push

Push changes in the local copy to the remote device. This is effectivelya restore from a backup, if pull has been previously run.

pull

Pull changes from the remote device to your local copy. Effectivelyperforming a backup.

bootstrap

Similar to push but doesn't use rsync. This is useful when yourdevice has just been reflashed and is missing any software. By just installingand starting SSH, thistarget can be used to restore your documents, changes and applications (suchas rsync). An article on dillernet.com,Recovering From A Firmware Flash, has some techniqueswhich may also help in this regard (specifically scripts to install theneeded packages & SSH keys from the MMC card).

Since bootstrap will generally be required when reflashing andbefore SSH is running as root; SSH may well be listening on port 2222 (ifstarted by an unprivileged user), rather than port 22. Therefore, you canoverride the REMOTE_DEVICE variable:

make [email protected]:2222/ bootstrap

Note: in this example, as the SSH server was started as anormal user, it would not be possible to restore symlinks in /etc.

Example

One common requirement when SSH is installed is startingit automatically when your device is turned on. This is easily done bycreating a symlink, as described in the InstallSsh document in the wiki.

Unfortunately, when you reflash your device, this symlink will be lost.However, by using the script you can ensure that this (and similar changes)are put back on the device when you restore:

$ mkdir ~/770-sync $ cd ~/770-sync $ wget http://bleb.org/software/maemo/Makefile.770sync $ mv Makefile.770sync Makefile $ mkdir -p etc/rc2.d $ ln -s /var/lib/install/etc/init.d/dropbear-server etc/rc2.d/S99dropbear-server $ make push

As you can see, the local 770-sync directorycontains a copy of any changes you've made to the file system. In addition,the user's home directory, the configuration and the installed applications are pulled back on a pull operation.

Citrix ICA client

The below screenshots show that theCitrixARM Linux client can be got to run on a Nokia 770, although it iscurrently much use: the virtual keyboard is tied to onboard GTK+applications. A USB keyboard, or a Bluetooth keyboard using kbddshould work, however.

The Citrix install file won't work with busybox's 'expr' implementation andwithout 'cpio'. The application itself requires a few extra debs (whichfortunately Debian/ARM can provide):

libxaw6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1_arm.deb

libxmu6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1_arm.deb

libxp6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1_arm.deb

libxpm4_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1_arm.deb

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Unfortunately, with the advent of 2006 OS and the use of EABI, older ARMLinux binaries will no longer work on the 770 without recompilation. Therefore,unless Citrix recompile and provide new binaries, or an open source clientis made available, Citrix is not easily possible on a modernMaemo device.

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vim/rsync

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These ports were for the 2005 OS, and have now been removed.mud-builder isa project which aims to simplify simple ports like thesein future.

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