At the risk of being severely browbeaten by the mini-cognoscenti, le'me risk another question.

Every 70 miles or so, my Mini unexpectedly issues a single audio tone. I've owned it long enough to know that the tone is a cue that a warning display is illuminated, and that something needs to be attended to. But there is no warning display. Nothing. Nada.

Is my Mini taunting me?

Is it a safety paradigm designed to test my level of alertness?

The ghost of Soichiro Honda, haunting me for buying a Eurocar after driving/riding Japanese machinery for years and years?

What's the deal?

I'm getting the itch to change the oil, even though there has been no iconic display of a car on a lift. Nearly 8,000 miles now.

A thousand pardons for not referring to the manual before asking the Oracle of the Mini Sport. I prostrate myself at your feet and beg guidance on this matter.

 

Can toy describe the tone? Single dong, multiple dongs or ? How cold is it where you are? On the 1st generation MINIS, there was a audio warning of when the temperature hit 37F/3C.

 

Can YOU ----

 

It is a single tone. Then, silence. My car is an '07 sport.

 

2nd gen MINIs do this as well. However, I'm pretty sure it's just one tone and a snowflake symbol when you first start it up or when the temp first hits the 37F threshold.

 

Any chance it was the same issue as seen by BludyL's hilarious pair of posts?

Previously in the thread:

~Neal

 

On the R-56 there is also a warning tone for the 37F degree temps. It will also at the time of the gong will display a snowflake within a triangle in the Tach. Just a warning that roads could freeze at the approching temps, that's all.

 

Well, seeing as how I live in California, and would crack like a cheap fortune cookie if the temp ever got below 50, it must be the time tone. I'll check it out.

Thanks!

 

I bet it is the single tone that that the time clock sounds on the top of hour. Sounds about right (every 70 miles). You can eliminate that in your settings program

 

My wife complained about a tone "every time I start driving". Turns out that we had accidentally turned on a feature in the onboard computer that warns you (with a beep and flashing speed) every time you exceed a pre-set speed. We'd turned this on and set it at 6 MPH ... every time she exceeded 6 MPH (basically when we start driving" the tone would sound.

We've since found and reset this feature to trigger at 80MPH. Much more helpful.

Perhaps it's this? Our MINI is a '05 MCSc with factory navigation, so I don't know if this is a "nav system only" feature.

 

If its not the other things perhaps its electrical/computer issues related to the problem I had https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...d.php?t=118719

 

A dim possibility--do you have anything on your front seat? Something like a heavy purse or groceries? Seat belt warning.

 

not a seat belt. a seat belt is nagging, like a wife. this one is taunting. one ding and it's done. i'm pretty sure it's the clock thing.

 

Oh, it's a single ding once in a while for mine--sort of like bumping the sensor's minimum weight limiter as you drive. At least that's on my '07.

 

So it's definitely a ding? I've heard dongs and beeps and beeeeps and...what? Okay...okay...I know...I Know! I promised I wouldn't get on these forums anymore. Alright, I'm logging out! Leave me alone!

It's the voices that I hate.

 

CC--there's medication for that, now...

 

I had a similar panic attack. A single bong then nothing else except a small yellow triangle lurking in the tach face. Checked the owner's manual (like a good boy) and didn't find anything. Went to the dealer to ask, and they weren't any help. Coincidentally happened to be looking at the nav display when the bong went off again, and it said the trunk was ajar. (Not the boot). Besides feeling stoopid, it was a great lesson.

 

my trunk is not a jar. it is a trunk.

and it is (and was) securely fastened.

 

With the safety seal?

 

 

Have you checked the headlight fluid level?

 

Yes, but I'm having a devil of a time getting the blinker fluid cap off...it needs some special MINI wrench, I guess.

 

Can't help you as I've almost never driven 70 minutes straight in my MINI (on a small island)

my trunk is a boot and I shut it.