What did you do to your MINI today?

He’s a 2023 with very low mileage at 8000 km. Is the gear selector the same as the gas MINI?

 

Similar look but the gear selector a unique part to the SE so it's going to have to come from Germany.

There's a TSB for the gear selector switch citing a defective ribbon cable for Jan 1, 2022 to Sept 30, 2022 production.

 

Wow! Thank you for this, it looks like a lot of work and yes the part(s) are coming from Germany and should arrive in 3 or 4 weeks time.

 

You got that right! A complete reset of the software. Fortunately I made a list at the time, mainly so that I could remember what I had done and what I still wanted to do. Very glad I did now

 

Put on a new hitch so I can carry my bikes.

 

Here is the link @A_C should have included to the thread showing his excellent hitch installation.

 

Drove 96 miles on a single charge today, mostly at 70 mph freeway speed. On my winter wheels. Had 21% SoC remaining.

(Winter wheels are 16" Spectre Grey Revolites with Nokian Hakkapeliitta R3s.)

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Feb 25, 2024 at 18:37 ** 42°F ** Wind: 5.543 mph from NW ** Humidity: 60% ** Driven: 96 Mi ** Start-Batt: 100% ** End-Batt: 21% ** Mi / kWh: 4.2 ** GOM Reading: 21 Mi ** Range Left: 25.49 Mi ** Total Range (From 100% charge): 121.49 Mi ** Total Range (From 100% charge): 121.38 Mi

 

Even with your lights on! Good job, @Puppethead.

 

The lights were on because I pulled into the garage at the end of the trip. I actually finished my journey before sunset.

(Timestamp is misleading because I chose to stay on daylight savings time year-round. I actually set my car to EST to simulate CDT to match my time perspective.)

 

I wouldn't think so, don't they run off the 12 V battery? (I know that's charged by the high voltage batteries but lights should be low power draw, especially if LED.)

 

Today I got to experience more of the "joys" of EV charging infrastructure. First a Chargepoint charger that I had used before wouldn't work (and support couldn't help), then a free Xeal charger some distance away also didn't seem to be functioning (although I got that same blinking light as the F150 Lightening using the other cable). Then the next Chargepoint charger nearby not too far away wouldn't work! There were four (free!) chargers, though, and the one next to it behaved expected, allowing my spouse and I to enjoy a brief break before heading home.

 

Brought Basil home yesterday after his 2 week vacation. He has a brand new shiny gear selector and new super strong spring-loaded charge flap. The old one wasn’t opening very far, but boy this new one “springs” into action. He also got his software updated (unfortunately). Today I will Bimmercode him!

Kudos to MINI Vancouver who gave me a 2024 SE to play with. No HUD nor phone charger and a thinner hard “plastic” steering wheel, but it did have HK sound. Also had high performance summer tires and we had ½ inch of snow (enough to close down Vancouver) the night before it went back. Of course the snow had gone by the morning.

 

I installed the OEM mud flaps yesterday. It was pretty straightforward with the instructions I found on here. The metal clips were the tricky part but a couple of choice four-letter words and they relented. I did remove the wheels to install which really made access easier.

My goal is to try and reduce the rate the car acquires the “dirty butt” syndrome. I’m hoping the rear flaps will keep the spray off the rear tires down so it isn’t deposited all over the rear of the car. We shall see.


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My experience is the mud flaps won't help much (I have them as well), due to the aerodynamic properties of the hardtop's shape. But the front mud flaps do help a lot in keeping the sides less dirty.

 

My mud flaps doing the job perfectly as intended.I believe they bigger than factory and they even with face of the wheels and they were build by me .I don’t see any accumulation of dirt on side front or rear bumper .I didn’t put them outside of the wheel just even for aerodynamic reason do not catch a wind to much.

 

Those salt stains look so gross. Lucky for me the coin washes are all heated indoors with hot water.

 

Constant struggle!