Hot Buttons

I've had my Mini for 4 months, and I still haven't set up any of those things! And the menu is kind of cumbersome, sometimes. I do talk to the car. That works well for all kinds of things! Today was the first day I opened the hood! Fun!

 

If you get brave enough to pop the inverter/motor cover off to see what's underneath (it's easy), be sure to check that all 4 mounting-post grommets stayed with the cover. I lost one of mine about the 20th time I was showing off my electric MINI. Did you notice the tubular metal frame holding the inverter and motor? You can see at the side that it mounts where ICE MINI Cooper engines are attached to the body.

 

Did you try replacing the bump stop?
https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enus/showparts?id=XP33-USA-12-2019-F56E-Mini-Cooper_SE&diagId=11_8380

 

Haven't heard of Hot Buttons til now... is that like a menu shortcut? I was looking for just such a function to help me get to the acoustic pedestrian toggle more quickly. I don't see that in the manual.

 

Yeah, the 1-6 buttons under the screen act as shortcuts. You just hold down the button for awhile and it sets whatever you want.

We never set them up on my wife's Clubman and I've been struggling to come up with anything I use that often. I set one of them to the sound mixer when I was messing around with that the other day, but I haven't accessed it again.

 

Oh, I'll experiment with that -- I thought it was just for radio stations!

 

I set some of mine, in this order:

1. Radio Presets (handy way to restore my audio preferences)
2. Charging Menu (if I need to easily get to the settings)
3. TPMS display (for easy access to tire pressure)

Haven't assigned the other three to anything yet. I wanted one to go into CarPlay but it doesn't seem possible.

 

I've set mine up in previous cars as speed dials to my fav contacts. Works great even when carplay is on. It will dial from within carplay when pressed

 

I don't think the bump stop would ever need changing. It took multiple tries to get the right replacement grommet, er, ball pin. MINI originally listed the wrong BMW grommet with the same part number as the correct grommet and I had to go without for months until I ordered again with the correct part number (11127614138, as in the diagram you linked) and ignore the parts vendor's warning that it wouldn't fit my SE.

There's a forum thread on the topic--before we knew the grommet was a ball pin. Here's the photo of the grommet MINI originally claimed was correct and the correct one that I eventually received:

 

The grommet thing is a clear and present danger. Because of @insightman 's original post on the topic, I religiously check my grommets whenever I remove the cover. One evening after dark, after showing the EV motor to some friends, I noticed I lost a grommet. A few phone flashlights waving around in the dark finally located the runaway lodged down in the motor housing.

 

I have set mine so far to presets, sound and climate activation. Oh and to home as I can't get the mini nav recognize "navigate home"!

 

I only did a couple and rarely use them so I forgot what they are all set to lol. For TPMS that's a fantastic idea!

 

I have my #6 set to TPMS, but I’m using the other five for radio stations.

@Puppethead, how do you have your #1 button controlling more than one radio preset?

 

There's a Radio Presets menu, and I have the hot button set to that. What's nice about the radio presets menu is you can combine FM and Satellite radio stations into a list of any order you want. And most importantly, if you have the head-up display you can use the up/down buttons on the steering wheel to scroll through and the list shows on the head-up display.

 

Cool! I’ll have to try that. (Although I didn’t opt for the HUD, so I guess I’ll have to watch for the list to scroll through on my center display.) Thank you for the tip!

 

For clarification, using the buttons on the steering wheel to change stations will show the current station in the upper right corner of the center display, only the HUD shows the menu. Unless you actually go to the Presets menu, then you'll see the whole list on the center display. My reason for having that on a hot button is to easily switch back to MINI audio after using CarPlay audio.

 

I have my car programmed to charge overnight on cheap electricity. I have a button programmed for the override (charge immediately) so I can quickly activate when I’m out and about. Sometimes I still forget to, and end up not charging when I needed to.


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I have some of mine set to disable acoustic pedestrian warning (have to disable each time) for stealth mode and enable/disable heads up display to reduce wear and tear.

 

I set my mini to charge immediately and set the schedule on my home charger. This way I don't need to deal with it if need to charge at a public charger.