When are they heated? What triggers them to turn on or are they always heated?

 

From the owners manual:

 

Yep turn on when the car starts up, you can take the back of you hand and feel when they get warm on the glass.


The euro blind spot mirror have them also.

https://www.ecstuning.com/News/MINI_F56_Blind_Spot_Mirrors_Genuine_European_F55_C ooper_S_JCW_Electrochromatic_Side_Mirrors_Heated_A spherical_Visibility_2014_2015/

 

Seems like when I had my 2012 Countryman that condensation would disappear quickly after starting. My new 2015 JCW takes 20-30 minutes before the condensation disappears. So I'm wondering if mine are warming up. I'll have to feel them in the morning. Thanks

 

I feel like they should be tied to the temp.. Why should they be on all the time and burn out? I used to leave them on on my passat all the time (i can't believe VW still makes you manually activate them on the mirror toggle) and the dealer said that this would wear the heating elements out

 

I felt the mirrors this morning a few minutes after starting and after a 35 minute drive and it never felt warm at all. Now I'm wondering if it is supposed to turn on when the heater is on or if mine are just broke. We all know what MINI says in the manual isn't always right.

 

I wonder if they are tied to the rear defroster. Most japanese cars do this. Turn on the rear defroster and see if it does it after a few minutes

 

On the older MINI you had to have the cold weather package on the F56 I believe its standard. But they do come on when you start up the car , its a faint heat. Very light on the f56 , on my R52 Gen 1 it gets pretty warm, but not hot.

 

From the MINI.ca website:
http://mini.ca/en/discover/conquer-winter/?lang=en&p=ON

It's not quite frosty here, yet.

Also, the manual says Green Mode will reduce output to the mirrors.

It makes sense to me to heat the mirrors, to save the motor.
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/show...diagId=51_9574

 

They don't appear to be tied to the rear defroster. I had it on until it turned off and never even got faintly warm.

 

Yep separate.

 

Yeah I tried it too to no avail. However, I cannot get mine to ever get warm. It was pouring and freezing the other night, and they were cool to the touch on multiple touching attempts throughout the night..