Oh, I'd have to disagree, pilotart...I think it's closer to THREE minutes. (I've tried it, but haven't timed it.) The action that I notice the most is the iPod track restarting...if I turn the engine off, run out, run back within about three minutes and restart it, it remembers where we left off...but anything longer than 5 minutes it restarts the song...But of course I"ve been wrong before, so it wouldn't be the first!!

 

http://www.mcaw.info/opossum/R56Fuses.txt

The link above will open text showing circuits that are on a thirty minute time setting (some {30G_F) are ten or five minutes).

Your HiFi will turn off when you eject key/fob or exit car and within thirty minutes, it will turn on by pressing volume ****, after thirty minutes it is necessary to first open or close a door or boot lid to start another thirty minutes.

Same timer will turn off the courtesy lights for a left-open door or boot hatch.

Your iPod/MP-3's may have an internal timer, seat heat is on a continous supply circuit, so its memory must be within its own module as well.

I have no seatheat or USB devices and only needed the circiut information to supply my XM-Radio with Ignition-off power and thirty minute time-out.

 

I'm always frustrated with the CD player. I almost always have an audio book in it, and I get tired of starting at the beginning at the track each day. Any way to get around this?

 

sadly the only way around it is to make sure your radio isn't off for more than 15 minutes (or whatever the actual number is).

 

I've only had my Mini for a week or so but I've been listening to audiobooks since taking delivery and haven't experienced this. It picks up where I left off when I turned off the car.

I have an '09 MCS with the HiFi. I wonder if there is some sort of setting to allow this. If you listen to a music CD does it remember where it was on the CD when you turn it back on the next day?

I copy books to my Ipod and am having problems with not seeing the count and it loses track of where I am with the book when I turn the car on. I don't expect to fix this though because its "glitchy" at best, when copying audiobooks to the Ipod and varies from book to book.

 

I discovered this for the first time recently. Up to this point I had them on my iPod. Guess I'll have to go back.

 

On my old car that still uses a tape deck, it always remember where I stopped.

 

I haven't driven in the rain yet but, did play with the wipers and found it confusing.....thanks for clearing it up.

 

You know you're old when you refer to recording a program on your satellite receiver as "taping."

Yeah, I confess...

 

My '08 MC ( w/o rain sense); a pushbutton on end of stalk starts intermintant and one up on stalk goes to constant low with high speed on second up of stalk.

They are also supposed to be "speed sensitive" and while at a stop, speed temporarily reverts to the next lower setting.

Pulling stalk towards the wheel sprays the windshield cleaning fluid and twisting the outer section washes and wipes the rear glass, it is only intermintant, except while in reverse.

It is not necessary to turn off when shutting down, as they do not dry-wipe on next start.

 

Your wipers should go to a "slow" intermittent at an extended stop, like a light. That's been a BMW trait for years, even before auto sensing wipers existed. My '94 325i had it.


There was a fellow on NAM about a year or so ago who was PO'd that his auto wipers weren't truly automatic--that he had to push the end of the stalk to start the function. He felt auto sensing should be totally automatic, and never need the driver's input. Posters were finally able to convince him that wouldn't be a good thing--like when the glass is covered in crud, and the rain hasn't had a chance to be heavy enough to wash it off yet.

 

I'm sure you guys know this already, but I just found out that turning off the car mid-stroke of the wiper won't stop them dead; it'll complete the sweep anyway.

Also, (this is probably in the manual) you can't fold the mirrors in if the car is traveling above 20 mph, but you can unfold it at any speed. I was hoping it would unfold automatically if the car reaches certain speed, but it doesn't.

 

Maybe you can't. I can fold and unfold at whatever speed I want.





jk, I have manual mirrors.

 

I discovered that it's not a good idea to roll down the windows to clear them of condensation after a rain. Got a lapful of water for my troubles.

 

I always have a small MF towel in the passenger rear seat net to wipe the water off when it does that

 

my pass seat belt sensor seems too sensitive on my new 09 MCSa. set my 2 lb camera bag there on my inaugural road trip and the car went BONG BONG w/the little red sb lite, buckled it, all's OK.

Oh and I dont know if it's because I have the English Oak wood trim and steering wheel, but my 2009 (automatic) came with a matching wood shift ****: very tasty!!

 

just found out today that not only does the steering wheel tilt up and down, but in and out to! no more scrubbing my knee on the bottom of the wheel while hovering the clutch


(HOVERING...not touching)so no replys saying dont rest your foot on the clutch, cuz i know better! :p

 

The 2008 R56 does not have a manual boot opening cord. Previous models had one under the rear seat. Gone! Not there. Look, please. Would love to be told it was a temporary oversight and that they were retrofitting those cars that slipped through.

 

Man, your MA didn't tell you that? Bad MA, bad MA!

Seriously, s/he should have done that. Isn't it in the book, too?

 

That's a little strange. Isn't it still a law that trunks (all right, boots) be openable from inside? I remember when they passed it as a safety feature because kids would climb in the trunk, shut it, and then not be able to get out...

 

If you were locked inside the boot of a MINI, you would have access to a rear seat fold-forward latch to escape.

Earlier MCS's had the battery under the boot floor and if dead, you could not open the boot without that emergency pull cable.
Sometime in early 2008, they realized that since the battery was no longer there, that the manual release was no longer necessary.

Mine is a week 12 '08 build with no trace of the emergency release cable.

 

i want a release cable, but I think that's because I'm used to only being able to release the trunk with the release in the car, or the key.


I just found out that you can remove the door key from the keyfob even when the car is running....

this comes in handy when the gf forgets something in the house, no need to shut the car off just to get the house key.

 

True, but that's the way a lot of cars are now. Did they change the law?

I'm sure they realized before this that the battery was put up front!

 

Well, the emergency release cable was strictly just for emergency use, never as a regular method, needed to raise rear seat to access.

You should have two methods to unlatch boot, one is the key/fob button and the other is the button above the license plate.

BTW you can shut down, release key/fob and then start engine without re-inserting the key/fob.

 

Bet some employee got a nice bonus after putting the idea into the suggestion box.

I don't think any law was changed and even when the emergency release was installed,
you would not have access to it, if locked inside the boot.

Would expect the law to just require an escape method, accessed from inside the trunk or boot anyway.