murmini - MINI Cooper Blog: Drive-By-Wire

Drive-By-Wire

murmini — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:29:39 -0400

The throttle pedal in the MINI is just yet another reminder of the BMW connection that MINIs have. That reassuring underpinning of BMW tried and tested performance technology from which we benefit.

"Drive-By-Wire" by murmini

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:22:46 -0400

If you can’t find a MINI one, the BMW 3 series one is the same. You may want to ask a parts dept. to match the serial numbers, but in my 05 MINI Coopers its a BMW part. Thought this might broaden your chances.

"Drive-By-Wire" by travis

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:35:25 -0400

i neeeddd to find a replacement part for my 06 copper s. its the throttle position sensor/ foot pedel shown above. if anybody knows where online i can get it pleeaasee tell me.

"Drive-By-Wire" by Alex

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:35:14 -0500

olá

gostaria que me ajudam-se a descobrir a avaria do meu Mini One modelo europeu 2001.

ele perde a aceleração quando ando abaixo das 2000 R/P. acima das 2000 r/p não tem problema com a aceleração. que sensores devo trocar e quais os p/n? poderiam dizer-me o nome e p/n do sensor que fica no motor mas na direcção ao apoio do motor do lado do passageiro.

"Drive-By-Wire" by murmini

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:29:35 -0400

Dave: I will do some research…

"Drive-By-Wire" by Dave

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:38:32 -0400

Great article. Could you please tell me which wires are ground, and which are 5 and 2 volts? I have one of these throttles, and want to use it in an electric car.

"Drive-By-Wire" by El agus

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:31:11 -0400

Mini cooper S 2002, se prenden las luces de la direccion y el ELS y deja de inyectar, ya lo arreglaron 2 veces y sigue fallando intermitentemente puede ser el TPS?

"Drive-By-Wire" by murmini

Wed, 23 May 2007 14:59:09 -0400

Gracias para su mensaje. Quisiera ayudarte , pero no tengo un diagrama para el mini cooper 2007. Pienso que tu necesitas preguntar el sito de web mini2.com, con esta misma pregunta.

Otra vez, gracias para su mensaje. Saludos,

"Drive-By-Wire" by Antonio Catalá Meyer

Mon, 21 May 2007 14:38:33 -0400

Me gustaria que me pueda alludar con la coneccion de el blow off ya el mini cooper s 2007 ya que vino turbo yo le instale el blowe off y me falta cenectar la manga de vaquium o vacuum del blow off al throttle o a algun lado pero nose donde ponertla mi mail es catalaantonio@yahoo.com, catalameyer@yahoo.com o a mi cel (787) 644-2343 y le agradecere mucho gracias Antonio Catala o que Me consigan el diagrama del throtle body de este mini cooper 2007 GRCIAS

"Drive-By-Wire" by Paul

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:00:35 -0400

Great article! By wire systems are really interesting. My HCI masters project last year was on the effects related to the lack of physical or haptic feedback in by wire systems. I fear that within the decade, if not sooner, we’ll really see a big push towards steering by wire in cars. I know it’s all in the name of safety, but we’re not flying inherently unstable aircraft here ;)

"Drive-By-Wire" by murmini

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:35:37 -0400

I find this a bit intriguing – the two voltage feeds, after passing through the Hall Effect circuits are fed to the ECM as INPUTS. I do not see any output from the engine control module being fed back to the pedal as a ‘response’, in fact the only OUTPUT from the Air Management part of the ECM is to the motor-driven throttle valve. The pedal acts as a dual sensor in the same way as the camshaft sensor and so on. Cruise Control is not managed by Air Management because it has to look for specific signals from the brake pedal switch, clutch switch, vehicle speed sensor as well as digital instructions from the steering wheel such as: slow down, speed up, set, resume, as INPUTS. A car not empoying drive-by-wire would probably provide pedal feedback as the cruise control would be activating the throttle and would therfore be connected to the pedal. Can you describe actually what takes place and maybe what year the car is?

"Drive-By-Wire" by blalor

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:08:46 -0400

Have you figured out how position feedback is sent through the pedal to the driver’s foot? For example. when you disengage the cruise control, you can feel the pedal rise slightly under your food. I’ve wondered how they do that with the drive-by-wire system.

"Drive-By-Wire" by Taylor

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:04:27 -0400

Thanks for posting this Murray! Superbly informative and interesting.