No idea what this is. It was in my MINI welcome bag along with the old antenna, smokers kit stuff, etc. I asked my sales rep, he had no idea, so I'm at a loss. Tried googling "Countryman metal circle hook thing" but that didn't lead anywhere (big surprise, lol). Thanks in advance

 

If you have wheels with a center cap that covers the bolts, that's the tool you use to get the cap off.

 

yup. The MINI Motoring Advisor didn't know what it was ?

 

Ahhh, thank you!

And no, I even texted him a picture of it and he said he had no idea, lol.

 

omg...So much for doing a proper delivery. Guess that also means they never went over the new car with you with respect to it's options, jack location, tools, OM, MINI RSA ect....was there a MINI Genius there ?

 

it is also a tool to get the automatic transmission out of park if the brake pedal interlock fails ... described in the owners manual

 

Rtfm!

 

Well I did have a "second date," but let's just say I had to look up how to use my wipers in my owners manual today, lol. (No idea the auto wipers didn't have an intermittent feature ) Anyways, he went over most of the stuff, but there were a few questions we had to search out, like what the button (that I now know dims and brightens the orange lights) does on the smaller gauge behind the steering wheel.

As far as tools, no idea of any tools other than that ring puller thingy now, and I don't know what OM and MINI RSA are. Road Side Assistance? I think I can access that in the main menu, right? OM... no guesses, lol.

 

What exactly would you suggest I look up in the manual? I searched for "round hooky ring thing" and unfortunately, MINI didn't call it that, so it's hard to RTFM when you don't know what to search for in the FM. But thanks for the obvious reply

 

I wouldn't sweat it there's always one in the crowd.

 

if you had read the manual from front to back you would have read the page i included in my post that shows the tool and its purpose

here it is again

 

As mentioned earlier, is is used to manually shift the car out of park and into neutral when the car is dead and won't start.

Let's be fair here - not everyone reads the manuals front to back or can even stay conscious that long lol.

 

And here i thought it was a tool to pull the 'will-nots' out of my ****...

 

+1 Two propose , cap remover ( with hole in full cover center caps ) and certain transmissions selector override.

Funny little tool. I have pulled my center caps on the R52 for years with it swapping wheels.

 

You're correct, shame on me, I'll get reading at once