I sat in the car this evening for a play and discovered you can have the ring light match the mood lighting! You can also have it work like a rev counter. This pic shows 4 shades, I think there is about 8??


rainbow ring by John Nunney, on Flickr

 

That's very cool.

 

Nice.

Now I want to see a video of the rev counter!

 

+1

 

Yea I'd like to see that video also....

 

Isn't it fun? My favorite color is the red/orange. It matches the other instruments in color. My granddaughter, though, likes blue. Nice to have choices.

 

I prefer mine to match with the orange too.

But my wife's been driving my R56 lately and lets my daughter play with the colors while in there...it was purple a few weeks ago. Pink earlier this week.

*sigh*

 

Dare I admit it - features such as this influenced my buying decision (along with the sparkling test drive of course )

 

if you hold the color selector down for 10 seconds, it will blink and do a continuous cycle through the colors. it's kinda cool. i have it set like that.

 

+1 I know it's a gimmick and has nothing to do with vehicle operations, but dangit, I think it's fun to look at.

 

Really?? Is that a trick or is it in the manual? I didn't know that.

 

My rev one seems broken or I just don't rev it but it seems stuck on that orange just on the right side.

My favorite is speed match one. In mid it follows your mph and in sport it switches to rev. I believe in green it probably does the Eco type.

 

No clue.. I just know that it does it and that's how I've left my setup.

 

The white on the left should change with the engine speed, the orange and red represent the redline.

 

White is hard to see in the daylight.
So you are saying I should see white on the left that matches my speed and red orange on the right that moves to the left with more revin'?

 

White on the left lower side (think of a clock, white is where 7 would be), then you'll have red and orange on the far right (again the clock position of 4 and 5 is orange and red respectfully).

when the RPMs go up, the white starts to fill in the ring starting at the 7 position going clockwise until it hits the red line position at 5.

I didn't know you can make it read MPH.....how do you select that?

 

Speed mode

 

Looks like MINI's move to the new lighting was a good idea.

 

does anyone know how to remove the warning on the screen when you start up the car?

 

That's the one for the nav system and it can't be disabled.

 

Which button is the color selector? I can't seem to change mine from the orange. I've made the rev counter feature work, but not been able to get anything else.

 

color selection button is in the overhead switches, second one in from the right. each time you touch it it changes colors, hold it till it blinks and it cycles through all colors continuously until you touch it again.

previous posts are misleading in that you don't select MPH for it to read that. There are 3 options, engine speed = RPM's with a white led color, I cant remember the middle options, but when selected it will make the led ring read RPM in sport mode, MPH in mid mode, and efficiency in green mode, the last selection is mode selection ie red=sport, yellow = mid and green = green mode.

hope that helps

 

Hey that's neat you did some photos as well!
I put together a little video of the lights running through all the colors. They were long exposure still shots blended together to simulate the disco mode.

 

Bloody fantastic work!

 

That's brilliant, outstanding work my friend.