My choice of search words is horrible...I tried and failed...I'm sure this is a common issue...sorry for the thread...but...

It has been cold here...sub 37°F and when my wife gets in the car which is parked in the garage...and heads out...the digital display on the tach is set to show 'mph'...BUT after a small distance there is an audible 'DING' and the display switches to the outside temp and it FLASHES 37 or whatever the outside temp is...what gives?

Thanks in advance for the help!

BTW...2005 Cooper 5sp manual

THANKS!
joe.

 

It's warning you that ice may be forming on road surfaces.

Mark

 

An added feature to inform you of the possibility of ice.
I think of it as my MINI telling me to pay attention and not to hurt her.

 

As it states in the manual, there is a freezing temperature warning chime..... And, yes it does come on about 32......

 

It's the may be ice on the road bing.

Your MINI will bing when it hits 37 degrees or lower even if you're driving.

 

Have you ever heard it

Mark

 

And I take it from your screen name you don't catch much do you?

 

WOW...that was fast...

I figured it was an environment indicator (i.e. ice)...but the 37°F CONFUSED me...that seemed a tad high...that's all...

THANKS for the fast responses!

joe.

 

Amazing, 4 similar replies within 1 minute!

 

On any given day...it 'could' describe the fish I seek or my skills as a fisherman...each day is a challenge!

 

It's a warning to let you know what you already know... It's cold as F* out side.

 

Ice can form on road surfaces at temps above freezing because of windchill factors.

Mark

 

Manual! LOL

 

Sure Mark, I had my first bing last week. A couple years ago it was down to 12 degrees for almost two weeks. It gets cold here in this part of the Gulf Coast. I was it Tampa once when it snowed. Many years ago and didn't stay around long, but we had snow.

 

and the road can be colder than the air.....

 

Some of us old timers have answered this so many time we have a template

Mark

 

OKAY OKAY...I GIVE!

 

No, Ice forms at 32 deg regardless of the wind-chill factor which only relates to things that can feel temperatures other than actual (ie Humans).

 

True, bridges and overpasses can freeze up before roads also.

Mark

 

The early MINIs temp warning bing comes on at 37 degrees and that's a fact not a guess.

 

I meant to say "above" not "about"

 

I thought so, but just wanted to state the actuall temp you should hear the bing at. As crappie_fisherman said in his first post, it would bing at 37 degrees.

 

Or 3 Celsius as Poco does. Ruby has local county dog tags, I have a greencard on the way, but even though Poco has Missouri plates, he refuses to display temps in F, or MPH, and he shows 143+k kilometres

Mark

 

Is that true? I thought windchill only simulated the equivalent temperature as felt on the skin, not how it'd physically affect structures. My understanding of wind chill (which may be flawwed) is that it could be -40 with windchill, but structures (or puddles) would measure (and feel) the ambient temperature.

~Neal

 

Wind, not wind chill would be correct. Wind chill is how a temperature "feels" when wind is factored in. So, 30 degrees with 10 mph wind may "feel" like 20.