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Navigation & AudioBring your GPS and favorite CD or MP3. This is where navigation and audio options for the Cooper (R50), Cabrio (R52), and Cooper S (R53) MINIs are discussed.
The release tabs are on the side. I recommend removing the glove box. It's only a few torx screws. I ended up breaking the tabs to remove. Would have been really hard to remove with glove box installed even if I knew how to remove it already.
Last edited by AndrewVanis; May 31, 2020 at 03:13 PM.
Correct, 1st gen MINI’s didn’t have USB ports so no place to plug in the green connector.
Adding power from a 5V USB adapter should work, but I would look online for a 2nd gen wiring schematic to see if the green plug is supplied by 12V or 5V, or look inside your adapter to see if a 5V power circuit is already built in.
What is the production date on your radio? Although the radios looked the same throughout the years, 2002 MINI’s didn’t have aux capability without using an aftermarket CD changer input adapter. 9/2002 and later radios should have aux capability. Later radios (around 2005??) added the capability to play burned MP3 CD’s in-dash.
Also, if you look for another radio, the same head unit was used for the standard and Harmon Kardon systems. The HK amp just unlocked other controls and setting when connected.
What is the production date on your radio? Although the radios looked the same throughout the years, 2002 MINI’s didn’t have aux capability without using an aftermarket CD changer input adapter. 9/2002 and later radios should have aux capability. Later radios (around 2005??) added the capability to play burned MP3 CD’s in-dash..
My production date is May 02. It did have the CD changer plug plugged in (now replaced with AUX) and it has the Mode button - per amazon seller, if I have Mode button, this should work
...Interesting about there could be a 12v>5v converter in the AUX plug. It would be convenient...How do I test?
+5v was the older standard. The voltage can now be negotiated all the way up to 20v. Apple (who is notorious for never following other's standard) uses 12v. Samsung Fast Charger likes +9v lately.
