So your problem isn't non run flats, its lack of sensors.

I just added sensors to all our wheels, so all of them work perfectly as TPMS, without an icon. Runflats or non runflats.

 

That's how you fix it. However the title of the thread is "One thing that drives you nuts about your MINI!" and one of mine is that I CAN'T TURN IT OFF!

 

You can fix it quite easily, but you are purposely choosing not to. Hardly something that warrants "being driven nuts" over when there's a simple fix that you are intentionally ignoring. There's enough griping on this board without fabricating issues that don't exist...

 

Anything is fixable with money, but hey... sorry I posted my OPINION, I'll keep it to myself next time.

 

It might have already been posted here but I don't feel like reading through the 800+ post to find out. My gripe is the double pull to open a locked door from the interior. I'm used to it by now but my wife can't seem to remember. Her normal routine is to keep pulling on it with no results until I tell her to pull it twice. My nine year old granddaughter was riding with me the other day and she kept pulling it harder and harder before I could get her to release and pull it again. I thought she was going to break the handle off.

 

Peatun, sorry to burst your bubble, but you'd have this problem with any car manufactured after 2007. :
Tire Rack carries TPMS sensors for vehicles at great prices and offers the option of pre-installing sensors if you purchase a wheel and tire package. And since, TPMS sensors have a battery in them, they'll need to be changed on average every five to seven years.

Do your TPMS sensors need to be replaced?

Sensors available at Tire Rack are 100% compatible with your vehicle's wheels and tires.

Federal law on all vehicles built after September 2007 requires the system and in some states the system must remain functional at all times. Reset procedures differ between manufacturers and vehicle models and can range from simply driving the vehicle (auto re-learn) to a manual re-learn that requires special equipment. You can contact Tire Rack's sales specialists to discuss the specifics for your particular car, truck or SUV.

Sucks, I know, but that's the just the name of the game.

 

so you're complaining about an issue that you created, and is not the fault of MINI. if you hadn't cheeped out and actually gotten the sensors for your new rims, this wouldn't be an issue. they are readily available from most tire shops.

 

I hate that too, so I programmed the doors to not autolock. Problem solved (or avoided).

Edit to add: The first genereation were better, the dealer could program them to auto-unlock on engine stop.

 

Yeah, I thought about programming to not autolock but I like the doors to be locked while driving. The auto-unlock on engine stop would be good.

 

Molly is home and all better, she's now napping outside my work.
She had the Battery replaced, the Serpentine Drive Belt replaced (I had made an appt. for the 16th to have that done), she also had some clips that were broken on the Passenger Window Regulator fixed.
She's all better and running like new!!

So now I have no complaints!!

 

Got my Pepper White Clubman S last year and I've only got 3 major complaints:

1) RunFlats are VERY sensitive to cold weather and will post false flat warnings all the time.

2) Driver door will not stay open, and loves to smack you every single time you exit the vehicle unless you spend 20 seconds gently navigating it to the ery end of the arc. Hate this, I've never had a car door that was so hard to keep open.

3) Annoying useless stupid dumb alert letting you know it is cold outside (snowflake) can't be disabled. I mean, who thought it was a good idea to report it as cold when it is cold? Do we really somehow not manage to detect it is cold? No. So the car just wants us to be told the obvious.

 

1-I've heard this before. Haven't had mine in winter yet, I'm going to watch out for that.

2-this had been mentioned numerous times here. Did they change this for the newer cars? I have no issue with this at all. I wonder if any other new owners also have seen a difference.

3-this is becoming standard on a lot of cars. It's not about telling you the obvious but about letting you know that the temperature had dropped below freezing and therefore ice is possible on roadways and to be careful, especially for black ice. It's a safety thing. Our golf does this as well, but my Ford did not. So maybe it's a German thing lol

 

I love my MINI. Only "drives me nuts" issue is the skimpy sun visors. I'm 5'2 and they really don't do me much good.

 

raise your seat i'm 5'3" and i have the seat up two pumps and it made a world of difference in the summer sun!

 

The damn brake dust! I just plasti dipped my wheels white! Which was apparently an easily dirtied color. Now i have to wash my wheels all the time!

 

The seatbelt beep!

I just take the seat belt from the passenger seat and buckle it into my buckle and i never have to hear the stupid beep again!

 

Wait, why don't you just wear your seatbelt? So you never wear it according to this?

 

the 3 inch gap the driver sunvisor leaves on the left side when you have it down. that's where the sun is blinding me! haha

 

It appears to me that the drls are just the low beams on all the time. I would like it if they were on but at a lower intensity

 

Haha i do, but its mostly just on short stop and go trips, so i dont have to buckle each time.

 

My USB port is cartoonishly non functional, using wait for it, a USB Flash drive designed specifically for it

 

Change your pads to a ceramic, a lot less brake dust!!

 

1) Get rid of them as soon as you can financially justify. Run Flat tires are worthless, poor handling, over priced junk. Yes, we don't get a spare, but that was a very poor design flaw that they shouldn't have worked into the design in the first place.(there's my gripe. You opted to take the easy way of giving us shitty tires instead of designing the car with a spare in mind).

2) My door opens and hits all the stops along the slide pretty good. I like that it's not TOO notchy, but it sticks in each notch perfectly. You park on a massively crowned road or something??

3) You've never owned another BMW have you? Even back to the 80's. My E30 BMW's had the same stupid notifications all the time. Be glad you don't have an entire panel on your headliner with 13 different lights for 13 different faults (brakes, brake lining, each individual brake light, each individual front light, etc etc).

 

My beef is not with my car but with the area that i live. I literally collect enough dust every day to completely shroud my car in dust. (our driveway is dirt)

 

The only major beefs I have with the car are the cutesy BS features that are not able to be taken off. I honestly don't know who thought colored "mood lights" were a "cool feature in any way, but I'm not a 15 year old boy or a little princess so having a bunch of colored lights inside my car is annoying, not "trick" or "neat".