I took my MINI in for, among other reasons, one of the remote's buttons were not working. The SA noted that the car would start, but none of the buttons would lock/unlock the doors or the trunk. When I picked the car up, the remote was fixed. This is what the invoice said:
"transmitter was placed in hold mode, wherein buttons must be held in order to activate their functions rather than pressed briefly. ... Test plan removed hold mode and asked for verification of operation...."

My SA had never heard of this before. He verified with the mechanic that I did not change some setting to put the key into hold mode, nor could I have have fixed the remote. Nor would the buttons work if I held them down, as noted on the invoice.

Anyone else see this before?

Larry

 

sometimes my key would forget my settings, only happened twice in the year I owned my baby, but have never experienced Hold Mode yet....real akward. maybe did they change the battery in the remote? I have it and it is amazing how intuative it is, but I don't think I EVER wanna know the workings of it, lol

 

I have the same issue with one of the keys. But I just swap and used the other one and never had that issue. I just thought of I take the key to the dealer there going to charge me a crazy amount

 

Mine is still under warranty. That's why I'm trying to get done before its out.