Mini mana?

Sent the car in for servicing yesterday to solve a couple of problems. Wiper noise was apparently caused by the arm hitting something under the bonnet, fixed. Interior light doesn't come on - I thought the bulb had blown, but the CSA (agent) says the whole unit is faulty. Stock for the part came in this morning, so I'll need to bring the car back for a 1-hour job in the next couple of days.

The third and more worrisome problem was that the engine would cut off (ie. stall) sometimes upon de-clutching, resulting in complete power loss. Usually when trying to employ engine brake with downshift. The weird thing is that the car stalls way too gracefully, without the shaking or shuddering normally associated with a clutch stall. A quick re-ignition would kick the engine back to life, but all the same, I'd prefer it not to happen while I'm negotiating a bend.

At first I thought it was due to my own bad driving habits, but then, J had also encountered the same problem several times. It's strange that this car has stalled on the go more times in the first three months than the old March, also a manual, had stalled in its entire eight years of service.

The CSA tells me that they'd upgraded the car's software and increased the engine idling speed slightly. Haven't run into the stalling problem again so far; we'll see how it goes.