My new to me used 2022 MINI Cooper S Convertible (F57) has recently started intermittently beeping. It appears to mean something, but I have no idea what. Here is a video of it beeping and flashing the LEDS atop the media center today. The car was turned off and locked at the time, with the top down.

No error messages have appeared on screen, and my OBD-II scanner isn't detecting any error codes. So far as I can tell, everything on the car is still working properly.

Any ideas what it is trying to say?

Thanks.

 

Have not heard that one before, sounds like an alarm for the stereo or something.

 

I haven't been in a 2022 F57, but I have to say that sounds very "not-MINI." I smell aftermarket. But I would definitely like to know from an authoritative source what on earth that is.

Noting that something that would make it unfamiliar to most MINI owners -- if it is about the convertible top (most of us don't have MINI convertibles).

 

Thanks. I took the video to my local MINI dealer yesterday, and they too consider it not a MINI-like sound. The only aftermarket items are an Advent 3.0 Blind Spot Monitor and an Acumen DC4K dashcam, so I've also got an inquiry in with the shop that installed both for us last month.

Update: The problem happened again this afternoon, so I tried unplugging power from the dashcam, and immediately the beeping stopped. So I think we have our culprit. Now to figure out why the dashcam was upset.

 

Yep, its not happy or something.

 

Update: Took it back to the installing shop for the dashcam, to diagnose. They too had no idea what the beeps meant. They did, however, discover they'd incorrectly wired it to be on all the time, rather than only when the car is running, so fixed that. They also confirmed the rear camera is no longer working, and are ordering a replacement cable for that. No charge.

Since making a few settings changes, the beeps haven't returned, and I no longer get lots of recordings of the inside of my garage at night. First, I changed the size of each recording, from 1 minute to 5. Next, I turned off Motion Detection. Next, I turned off Impact Sensitivity (because it sensed every big bump on the road as an impact otherwise - up to 20 times a day.)

I wish there were an option to keep it from beeping 3 times at power-up, as my daughter-in-law finds that annoying. But at least it is no longer beeping its way randomly down the road.

As for functionality, its image is bright and high resolution, even at night, but very wide angle so I'm not sure it can read license plate numbers easily as I'd hoped it would. I do like that it watermarks each video with date and time, GPS location, and GPS speed (though if I liked to speed I might not like that last part to be recorded.)