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The media controls on my car. Previous and Next are Up and Down. Volume Up and Down are Right and Left.
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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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Fellow Mini owner. This is only one of the many questionable UI decisions made in my car. I literally had to get help to get it started the first time.
What model do you have? My 2015 Cooper S is just a foot on the break, and tap start. Like most newer cars.
I've got a 2018 mini cooper SE hybrid. It has a little switch to turn on. The switch has its light on when the car is turned off and it's light off when the car is turned on. It also has a third state after you get out of the car where it's not really on or off but you can't charge it or drive it until you turn it completely on or off. And you can't turn it on if you don't have it in neutral. And it doesn't really tell you if the parking break is on except a little light on the center console which you never see, so the car may be on but you won't be able to drive it because the parking brake is on. Sometimes it wont let you unplug it until you lock it and unlock it again for some reason.
And don't even get me started on the CarPlay or the driver profiles or the park assist menu that overstays its welcome by about 3 minutes.
Yeah, that’s a little different than mine. Although it does do that double-tap to completely turn off the car. That’s pretty annoying. Other manufacturers just put a sensor on the driver’s door. If the ignition if off and the door is opened, the accessories turn off automatically.
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I recently had this conversation with my teens. Going through drivers Ed, they want you to use the emergency brake when parking, but odds are against them ever driving a manual where you’d need it. It’s unfortunate that such a potentially useful thing like the “make the car smell funny” lever is just a way to keep spending money on brakes over and over
Well, it is a parking brake and not an emergency brake. And while in an automatic you can use park and mostly rely on the parking pawl to keep the car from moving, on inclines it's not good for the transmissions.
This is so intensely annoying I would hack the shit out of the steering wheel to DIY a fix to this monstrosity. Or I'd just sell the damn car.
Did you read manual as result?
Fuck no. I handled it like a man and trial and errored it for weeks. I am ashamed to say that I had to ask the dealer for assistance to drive it off the lot because I was blocking people and they were getting pissed.