Whats the light above the revomter do? If anything.

 

A picture. A description of year/model and options.
It's beginning to fade away now but was a time when we could all say that there were no two MINIs alike.

 

It's the alarm light, it flashes when you turn your alarm on. My car has it but I have no alarm on it, just recently discovered that locking my car with the remote didn't mean I had an alarm, just a remote lock key :P. Anyways if you get the alarm installed this will function as an indicator of the alarm.

 

ty i thought it was a shift light

 

I thought the same thing when I first bought my '12 MCS - I would go all the way to redline and it wouldn't light up, so I thought it was broken or burnt out bulb, until I came on here and read up on it.

I mean... it IS on the tach after all... are we so wrong for thinking it had something to do with the tach? lol

 

I would LOVE to have that red light glow or pulse if the doors were locked, just as a theft-deterrent. Sadly, my little red "light" just sits there, doing nothing. A shift-light is an awesome idea, as well! Has anyone done ANYTHING with that red light? I know, it may require some re-programming, but any ideas? Just so fricking lame that it sits there, doing NOTHING.....

 

Definitely requires some reprogramming to have the light pulse as if you had an alarm (which I heard is simple), practically changing a value from disabled to enabled for "alarm" or something along those lines however who the heck does it around my area? Only God knows :P.

I wondered if the iphone app that allows configuration via the OBD2 might do it but not sure, perhaps if someone knows they can tell us.

I was thinking of putting this light on there
http://www.ebay.com/itm/12v-RED-Alternating-Flashing-Dummy-Fake-Car-Alarm-Dash-Mount-LED-Light-PM-/181531549600?hash=item2a441f9fa0&vxp=mtr
By the way to use this you might need to find a floating ground (does anyone know where to get it from an R56)? A floating ground is practically a wire that turns to ground when the ignition is off, and becomes live when it is on. Hence connecting a positive from the LED to the battery and the ground of the LED to the "Floating ground" will make the LED flash when the ignition is off on the car.

 

Its for the factory alarm, and pulses and flashes when you have that option of the kit installed: 65120443179 or 65730445530

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...t-come-on.html

 

I hope somebody can help me with this old thread.I have a r55 Cooper s. Its a European model. The wiring of the complete alarm system is not installed from factory .I made all the adjustments written in all the topics. So I installed the 2 wires from speg to kombi and coded the tacho and speg (The dwa verbaut lines). When I lock the car with the fob when I am inside and I open a door the hazard lights start blinking. I should think I did the job right but the alarm hardbeat light isn't blinking. Could It be i am missing something? My idea is that I have a Speg where it is not possible to put a fuse for the complete alarm nr F26. Thanks in advance!