Got my radio replaced on my 2011 R56 because it bit the dust and ... no more trip mileage!? I should have seen it coming on my loaner countryman it was like that but...still.

Why would MINI do this to us. I can't come up with any reason that makes sense.

For those of you without this great functionality this is what it looked like previously:

 

Why would replacing the radio take this display away? Did you scroll through the options by using the blinker stalk ****? Maybe it just got reset? Wow, that stinks if it really is gone.

 

On ours its one of the options you scroll through. Somewhat annoying.

 

Yeah I agree! I think it's in the sw version. I have asked the dealer about putting it to the way yours previously was, but they act all like, no we can't do that.

PS: Stay tuned. I called the Service Manager, instead of a Service advisor at my local to find out whats the deal on that. She knew exactly what I was talking about as her MINI also displays trip odo at all times. She is looking into it and will call me back with more info.

 

Took me a minute to work through what was meant here...owning a 2012 MCS, I can choose the trip meter display to show, or the outside temp, avg MPG, etc.

Ah, but some (earlier?) models could show the trip meter *simultaneously* with the odo. Didn't know what I was missing; now I see.

 

Yeah, it came with a software update. What I got from the service department is that MINI wanted more space for the warning indicators in that area. I really want my trip meter back.

 

I didn't know what I was missing either in my 2013.

I normally set the display in the tach to time then set the radio display to computer. This shows avg consumption, avg speed, mileage to empty, and outside temperature on the radio display. There is still some room there so they should add the trip odometer.

 

The 2012 is a big step backwards. On the earlier years the trip mileage was always there. Also when you chose to display something else, not the current speed, you had that on the top line of the bottom display, and the time and temperature displayed in the top. If you chose current speed it would jump to the top in big number, like the current ones are stuck with.

Now the current speed is stuck in the top and the trip and time isn't displayed, its much less useful. The trade off is you get the intermittant wiper icon display (woo-hoo).

 

I hadn't ever tried this...but did this morning. As you say, there's room for more...like a trip odo! Then, of course, the software-guy that's still in me would think: well, gee, it wouldn't be *that* hard to add some info from OBD-II like ScanGauge does, let the driver toggle which ones get displayed (choose instant mpg vs. average, e.g.). Or, change to a "Sport" set when Sport is pressed: water temp, air intake temp, others instead of the normal ones.

 

Hey neighbor. I like the way you think. Wonder if anybody could get MINI to think that way?

 

They told me tough cookies, no way to get the display to show like that. Thanks software update!

 

Could this be coded?

 

I thought I was going crazy, had a software update last week and couldn't figure out how to get my trip odo back. I was looking through the manual about a hundred times, glad I'm not the only one.

Seems really stupid to take something away like that, add options don't remove them :(

 

I think this would keep me from buying new. Which was my plan for the future. Small detail to someone who isn't paying attention to what we want.

 

This. I never pay attention to it myself unless I need to make a quick estimation of remaining fuel.

 

i was wondering what i was noticing between my 08 and my 13, aside from the speed always being displayed... sucks.

 

Just had to get my battery replaced on my 2011 Cooper S Clubman. The dealership told me that would have to reprogram the car. Noticed a few differences when I got the car back, the "hidden" trip odometer being the main one. I guess they reprogrammed the car with the updated software. I wonder what else has changed?

 

I have had 3 MINIs. 09, 10, and now a 13. I never had the trip show all of the time. I have always needed to scroll through to get it on the tach.

 

When switching from my '09 Convertible to my '12 Roadster, I too found the disappearing trip meter annoying as I use it daily for business journeys.

One thing I have found is that a single press on the trip meter reset button makes the trip meter display - it only resets the trip if you press it while the trip is being displayed.

Of course this may be of no use to you if Merkan and Yurpeen Minis are coded differently, which could well happen.

 

They must have changed in in 09 then. All four of our MINIs up to 08 always showed the trip milage.

 

My tach shows total mileage, trip mileage, and speed. My speedo shows avg mpg, avg. speed, range, and outside temperature after I select menu and comp. If I was going to complain it would be about lack of water temperature and oil pressure. 2014, nav. by portable Garmin.

 

All this time, I just thought I needed to somehow change the settings on my 2013 R56 in order to get the trip odometer to display in that blank space to the right of the regular odometer.

Just yesterday, the service manager at my local dealer confirmed it's due to the software they use to update the cars.....the latest version does away with that display. I never had it on mine to begin with, but am annoyed that I won't have that convenience. It would help gauge distance when following directions or on road trips since the main odo has no tenths of a mile digit. grrrrr

 

Have you tried repeatedly pushing the button on the end of the turn signal stalk until you get the trip mileage displayed above the regular odometer?

 

^ Are you trying to be funny? Because I'm not amused.

 

No, I'm not being funny. It works for me.