Sa to say that this morning when I started up my connected display did not come on. It was 17 degrees outside but I wouldn't think that should affect any component this way. I checked the fuse and it was fine. Fiddled with all the controls and made sure I hadn't disabled the display somehow.

Now I have an appointment Tuesday to get it looked at. Kinda hoping it just rears back to life so I can have music on my trip from Tahoe to San Francisco tomorrow. BTW the nav is great in a snowstorm at night!

 

In the shop now, apparently they are taking apart a countryman dash for the first time to try to trace what's going on. Hopefully I'll have an update and maybe a car tomorrow.

 

Definitely let us know when you find out what's going on.

 

Day four at the dealer and so far they've told me that it's electrical and they have it working intermittently but need to trace the connections more to ensure it doesn't go out again.

 

Service advisor called today and I should be able to pickup tomorrow. He says it was an electrical short upstream from the display so they had to trace it pretty deep. It's been in for over a week, not sure how much of that time is tracing vs taking the dash apart and putting it back together for the first time.

 

Just got it back and all seems to be working well. Here's the service report. Sorry for the all caps but this is how they enter it:

COMFIRM PROBLEM WITH CHAMP2 DISPLAY IS INOP. ABLE TO HEAR
STATIC NOISE FROM SPEAKER WHEN RAISING UP VOLUME CONTROL AND
INSERT CD CAN HEAR MUSIC PLAY. BUT NO DISPLAY FUCNTION.
CONNECT VEHICLE TO ISID. PERFORMED VEHICLE TEST. FOUND FAULT
E1EO MULTIMEDIA PLATFORM. PERFORMED TEST PLAN. CHECK FUSE
F45 IS OK HAS VOLTAGE ON BOTH SIDE OF FUSE. AS PER TEST PLAN
TO CHECK CONNECTOR BACK OF CCC/CHAMP. HAD TO R&I CENTER TRIM
DASH PANEL. R&I SHIFTER CONSOLE AND ARM REST. R&I PASSENGER
AIR BAG. BOTH WAS NOT IN REPAIR MANUAL TO REMOVE. INFORMATIO
WAS SEND BACK TO ISID. WHEN MOVING M1NIJOY STICK DISPLAY
CAN BACK TO LINE. R&I CHAMP AND DISPLANY UNIT. CHECK ALL
CONNECTOR ON BOTH MODULE WAS ALL SECURED. CHECK K- HIGH AND K
-LOW ARE NOT SHORTED. MOVE AUDIO WIRE AROUND DID NOT HAVE
DISPLAY CUT OUT. CHECK LVDS CABLE IS OK TO DISPLA UNIT.
CREATED TC44759083. POSSIBLE FROM MOVING MINIJOY RESET
DISPLAY UNIT.
SYSTEM RESET. WITH MINIJOY FUNCTION.

 

it's like they're speaking a very weird dialect of english, known only as "CARREPAIRSPEAK"?

I'm sorry that your car has had to spend so much time in the shop. did you at least get something interesting as a loaner?

 

Yeah, hard to parse without knowing what champ2 is and other such things. I got a regular mini, so I guess you could consider that interesting compared to a normal car. Not much compared to the countryman. It was pretty unequipped.

 

Just got my 2011 Cooper S (purchased in March) back after 8 days in the shop. Went in because Sirius wouldn't lock in and Mini Connected wasn't. Mini replaced the CHAMP2 module and reprogrammed the car (18 hours they said) and replaced shorted coax cable from antenna back to radio. Service was in contact daily. MiniUSA was adamant the repairs be made before car returned. I was sad to be without the S for a week but had BMW 3 in the interim.
Anyway, Min Connected now is and Sirius seems to be working although I haven't loaded stations as yet, just got her back last night.