I have a 2018 Clubman S, and at some point I must have permanently turned off the overhead lights and the reading lights.
Does anyone know the procedure for turning them back on?
Thank you.

 

Not sure if you're saying the overhead switches are not functioning properly. Toggle them if you haven't.

 

Toggling does nothing with the overhead dome lights, or the reading lights on either side of the mirror area. And, yes, I have checked to see if the rotary light intensity switch, above the headlights switch, and out of view of the driver, is turned up. Interestingly, the footwell lights work.

 

If the fuses are all good, and you've flipped and held the toggles, and you've spun the dimmer, and you've done a small animal sacrifice when the moon was full, then it's time to call or visit your dealer's service department. Please let us know the outcome.

 

I will be monitoring the phases of the moon for the next opportunity.
There's a particularly stupid rabbit who insists on sitting in our driveway, who just might be enlisted for the purpose.
I'll do anything not to visit the dealer.

 

I think killing a bunny might make it worse. Call your dealer.

 

If your visor mirror lights are also inoperative, then the fuse is the culprit.
Also if your auto headlights wont turn off, same fuse.

 

TVPostSound & 2017ALL4:

You were both right, and it didn't require animal sacrifice. The rabbit is much relieved.

I went back to the glove compartment, emptied it, then pulled off the fuse box door and extracted the miniature fuse box map. I found the brown 5 fuse and extracted it, but dropped it.
It felling the air-conditioning duct below!!!! Off to the auto parts store and brought an assortment pack of fuses - still not knowing which fuse it might be. After the store clerks stopped laughing, I went home and put a small towel below the fuse panel to catch any more dropped fuses.

I inserted the missing brown 5 fuse and what happened? The lights came on. The gods smiled upon my Clubman and the rabbit wept with joy.

 

I was about to suggest hiring a code breaker to explain that stupid paper fuse diagram, but glad it worked out.

 

Now we will all form a drum circle, chant, and seek an answer to the deeper cosmic question: Why did the fuse blow?

The rabbit doesn't care, but MINI owners far and wide are wondering...

 

My response was based on my experience.
A result of the hot wire to the driver vanity mirror light. The wire broke and shorted to the pivot inside the headliner.
It seems to get weak by turning the sunshade to the drivers window.
The sun is to my left going to work and returning home.
That sunshade gets at least 4 position movements per day.

 

TVPost Sound:

How in the world did you figure this out?

I have the same daily drive with the sun on my left hand side each way, and yes, I use the visor.

Would taking down the visor and nipping off the wire solve this? I really don't need a lighted visor.

 

I wouldn't recommend it!!
That was my issue. If you blow the fuse again, I would look into it.
You can check the wire.
Remove the cap, pinch the white clip to remove it, and slowly pull the visor down, and look at the wires.

 

If the moon is full. Otherwise, take it to the dealer for warranty repair. Lighting fuses should not blow under normal use.

 

So, Mr. Hayes, what was the final outcome???

 

I inserted the missing brown 5 fuse and what happened? The lights came on. The gods smiled upon my Clubman and the rabbit wept with joy.

I'm not swinging the visor from side to side, just in case that really did cause a wiring fault, as was described above. A little voodoo for the ju-ju man, So far it's OK.

 

The mystical self-healing powers of British-made cars, their wonders to behold.

Years ago I was gassing up our V12 XJS the evening prior to a planned road trip. After filling the tank, the Jag wouldn't start. I called my British mechanic, at home, on a Friday night. He was a few beers into his evening. He told me to hold my phone under the bonnet and crank the car, which I did, right there at the gas station. My mechanic, having heard whatever he heard over the phone, told me to wait 10 minutes, restart the car, drive it home, and park it in the garage to be towed into his shop on Monday because, he informed me, the car would only start one more time, just enough to get me home.

I waited 10 minutes, cranked the car. It started. I drove it home and parked it in the garage and we took another car on the trip. The next Monday, prior to calling for a tow, I tried to start the car. It would not start.

When I arrived with Jaggie in tow, my mechanic was waiting, with a small electrical part in hand. About 10 minutes and $80 later, the Jag was purring. I asked my mechanic how he knew what the problem was, to which he replied in the drollest of British accents, "Well, how do you know what you know?"

True story. And, to make it sweeter still, that old British mechanic, may he rest in peace, had a bit part as one of the MINI drivers in the original Italian Job movie. His XKE also appears in that film.

Don't fight the karmic flow.

 

Wrong thread, please ignore.