Mini 2014 MINI User manual

OWNER'S MANUAL.
MINI.
Contents
A-Z
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MINI Owner's Manual for Vehicle
Thank you for choosing a MINI.
The more familiar you are with your vehicle, the better control
you will have on the road. We therefore strongly suggest:
Read this Owner's Manual before starting off in your new MINI.
Also use the Integrated Owner's Manual in your vehicle. It con‐
tains important information on vehicle operation that will help
you make full use of the technical features available in your
MINI. The manual also contains information designed to en‐
hance operating reliability and road safety, and to contribute to
maintaining the value of your MINI.
Any updates made after the editorial deadline can be found in
the appendix of the printed Owner's Handbook for the Vehicle.
Get started now. We wish you driving fun and inspiration with
your MINI
The MINI team of BMW AG
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© 2014 Bayerische Motoren Werke
Aktiengesellschaft
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Reprinting, including excerpts, only with the written
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Contents
The fastest way to find information on a partic‐
ular topic or item is by using the index, refer to
page 220.
6Notes
AT A GLANCE
14 Cockpit
18 Onboard monitor
26 Voice activation system
29 Integrated Owner's Manual in the vehicle
CONTROLS
34 Opening and closing
47 Adjusting
55 Transporting children safely
59 Driving
71 Displays
86 Lamps
91 Safety
106 Driving stability control systems
110 Driving comfort
127 Climate control
133 Interior equipment
135 Digital compass
141 Storage compartments
DRIVING TIPS
148 Things to remember when driving
151 Loading
155 Saving fuel
MOBILITY
164 Refueling
166 Fuel
168 Wheels and tires
180 Engine compartment
182 Engine oil
185 Coolant
186 Maintenance
188 Replacing components
201 Breakdown assistance
207 Care
REFERENCE
214 Technical data
216 Appendix
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220 Everything from A to Z
License Texts and Certifications

Notes
Using this Owner's
Manual
The fastest way to find information on a partic‐
ular topic is by using the index.
An initial overview of the vehicle is provided in
the first chapter.
Updates made after the editorial
deadline
Any updates made after the editorial deadline
for the Owner's Manuals are located in the ap‐
pendix of the printed quick reference for the
vehicle.
User's manual for Navigation,
Entertainment, Communication
The topics Navigation, Entertainment, Commu‐
nication and the short commands of the voice
activation system can be retrieved via the
Integrated Owner's Handbook.
Additional sources of information
Should you have any questions, your service
center will be glad to advise you at any time.
Information about MINI, e.g., on technology, is
available on the Internet: www.miniusa.com
Symbols
Indicates precautions that must be followed
precisely in order to avoid the possibility of
personal injury and serious damage to the
vehicle.
◄ Marks the end of a specific item of
information.
"..." Identifies Control Display texts used to
select individual functions.
›...‹ Verbal instructions to use with the voice
activation system..
››...‹‹ Identifies the answers generated by the
voice activation system.
Refers to measures that can be taken to
help protect the environment.
Vehicle equipment
This Owner's Manual describes all models and
all standard, country-specific and optional
equipment that is offered in the model series.
Therefore, in this Owner's Manual, equipment
is also described and illustrated that is not
available in your vehicle, e.g., because of the
selected optional equipment or the country-
specific variants.
This also applies for safety-related functions
and systems.
For any options and equipment not described
in this Owner's Handbook, refer to the Supple‐
mentary Owner's Handbooks.
On right-hand drive vehicles, some control ele‐
ments are arranged differently than shown in
the illustrations.
Status of the Owner's
Manual
Basic information
The manufacturer of your vehicle pursues a
policy of constant development that is con‐
ceived to ensure that our vehicles continue to
embody the highest quality and safety stan‐
dards. In rare cases, therefore, the features de‐
scribed in this Owner's Manual may differ from
those in your vehicle.
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Updates made after the editorial
deadline
Any updates made after the editorial deadline
can be found in the appendix of the printed
Owner's Handbook for Vehicle.
For your own safety
Manufacturer
The manufacturer of this MINI is Bayerische
Motoren Werke Aktionengesellschaft, BMW AG.
Warranty
Your vehicle is technically configured for the
operating conditions and registration require‐
ments applying in the country of first delivery -
homologation. If your vehicle is to be operated
in a different country it might be necessary to
adapt your vehicle to potentially differing oper‐
ating conditions and permit requirements. If
your vehicle does not comply with the homolo‐
gation requirements in a certain country you
cannot lodge warranty claims for your vehicle
there. Further information can be obtained
from your Service Centre.
Maintenance and repairs
Advanced technology, e.g., the use of modern
materials and high-performance electronics,
requires suitable maintenance and repair
methods.
Therefore, have this work performed only by a
MINI service center or a workshop that works
according to repair procedures of the manufac‐
turer of the MINI with appropriately trained
personnel.
If this work is not carried out properly, there is
the danger of subsequent damage and related
safety hazards.
Parts and accessories
MINI recommends using parts and accessories
approved by the manufacturer of the MINI for
this purpose.
Your MINI service center is the right contact for
genuine MINI parts and accessories, other
products approved by the manufacturer of the
MINI and related qualified advice.
The manufacturer of the MINI has tested these
products for safety and suitability in relation to
MINI vehicles.
The manufacturer of the MINI assumes respon‐
sibility for them. However, we cannot assume
any responsibility whatsoever for parts and ac‐
cessories that have not been specifically ap‐
proved by MINI.
MINI cannot evaluate whether each individual
product from another manufacturer can be
used with MINI vehicles without presenting a
safety hazard. This guarantee is also not appli‐
cable when country-specific government ap‐
proval has been granted. Testing of this kind
may fail to embrace the entire range of poten‐
tial operating conditions to which components
might be exposed on MINI vehicles. Such prod‐
ucts could conceivably fail to comply with
MINI's own stringent quality standards.
California Proposition 65 Warning
California laws require us to state the following
warning:
Engine exhaust and a wide variety of automo‐
bile components and parts, including compo‐
nents found in the interior furnishings in a vehi‐
cle, contain or emit chemicals known to the
State of California to cause cancer and birth de‐
fects and reproductive harm. In addition, cer‐
tain fluids contained in vehicles and certain
products of component wear contain or emit
chemicals known to the State of California to
cause cancer and birth defects or other repro‐
ductive harm. Battery posts, terminals and re‐
lated accessories contain lead and lead com‐
pounds. Wash your hands after handling. Used
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engine oil contains chemicals that have caused
cancer in laboratory animals. Always protect
your skin by washing thoroughly with soap and
water.
Service and warranty
We recommend that you read this publication
thoroughly. Your vehicle is covered by the fol‐
lowing warranties:
▷New Vehicle Limited Warranty.
▷Rust Perforation Limited Warranty.
▷Federal Emissions System Defect Warranty.
▷Federal Emissions Performance Warranty.
▷California Emission Control System Limited
Warranty.
Detailed information about these warranties is
listed in the Service and Warranty Information
Booklet for US models or in the Warranty and
Service Guide Booklet for Canadian models.
Your vehicle has been specifically adapted and
designed to meet the particular operating con‐
ditions and homologation requirements in your
country and continental region in order to de‐
liver the full driving pleasure while the vehicle is
operated under those conditions. If you wish to
operate your vehicle in another country or re‐
gion, you may be required to adapt your vehi‐
cle to meet different prevailing operating con‐
ditions and homologation requirements. You
should also be aware of any applicable war‐
ranty limitations or exclusions for such country
or region. In such case, please contact Cus‐
tomer Relations for further information.
Maintenance
Maintain the vehicle regularly to sustain the
road safety, operational reliability and the New
Vehicle Limited Warranty.
Specifications for required maintenance meas‐
ures:
▷MINI Maintenance system
▷Service and Warranty Information Booklet
for US models
▷Warranty and Service Guide Booklet for
Canadian models
If the vehicle is not maintained according to
these specifications, this could result in serious
damage to the vehicle. Such damage is not
covered by the MINI New Vehicle Limited War‐
ranty.
Data memory
Many electronic components on your vehicle
are equipped with data memories that tempo‐
rarily or permanently store technical informa‐
tion about the condition of the vehicle, events
and faults. This technical information generally
documents the state of a component, a mod‐
ule, a system or the environment:
▷Operating states of system components, fill
levels for instance.
▷Status messages for the vehicle and from its
individual components, e.g., wheel rotation
speed/ vehicle speed, deceleration, trans‐
verse acceleration.
▷Malfunctions and faults in important system
components, e.g., lights and brakes.
▷Responses by the vehicle to special situa‐
tions, e.g., deployment of an airbag, en‐
gagement of stability control systems.
▷Ambient conditions, such as temperature.
This data is purely technical in nature and is
used to detect and correct faults and to opti‐
mize vehicle functions. Motion profiles over
routes traveled cannot be created from this
data. When service offerings are used, e.g., re‐
pair services, service processes, warranty
claims, quality assurance, this technical infor‐
mation can be read out from the event and
fault memories by the service personnel, in‐
cluding the manufacturer, using special diag‐
nostic tools. You can obtain further information
there if it is needed. After a fault is corrected,
the information in the fault memory is deleted
or overwritten on a continuous basis.
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When the vehicle is in use, situations are con‐
ceivable in which it might be possible to asso‐
ciate this technical data with individuals if it is
combined with other information, e.g., an acci‐
dent report, damage to the vehicle, eye witness
accounts — possibly with the assistance of an
expert.
Additional functions that are contractually
agreed with the customer, such as vehicle lo‐
cating in an emergency, enable certain vehicle
data to be transmitted from the vehicle.
Event Data Recorder EDR
This vehicle is equipped with an event data re‐
corder EDR. The main purpose of an EDR is to
record, in certain crash or near crash-like situa‐
tions, such as an air bag deployment or hitting
a road obstacle, data that will assist in under‐
standing how a vehicle’s systems performed.
The EDR is designed to record data related to
vehicle dynamics and safety systems for a short
period of time, typically 30 seconds or less.
The EDR in this vehicle is designed to record
such data as:
▷How various systems in your vehicle were
operating.
▷Whether or not the driver and passenger
safety belts were fastened.
▷How far, if at all, the driver was depressing
the accelerator and/or brake pedal.
▷How fast the vehicle was traveling.
These data can help provide a better under‐
standing of the circumstances in which crashes
and injuries occur.
EDR data are recorded by your vehicle only if a
nontrivial crash situation occurs; no data are re‐
corded by the EDR under normal driving condi‐
tions and no personal data, e.g., name, gender,
age, and crash location, are recorded.
However, other parties, such as law enforce‐
ment, could combine the EDR data with the
type of personally identifying data routinely ac‐
quired during a crash investigation.
To read data recorded by an EDR, special
equipment is required, and access to the vehi‐
cle or the EDR is needed. In addition to the ve‐
hicle manufacturer, other parties, such as law
enforcement, that have the special equipment,
can read the information if they have access to
the vehicle or the EDR.
Reporting safety defects
For US customers
The following only applies to vehicles owned
and operated in the US.
If you believe that your vehicle has a defect
which could cause a crash or could cause injury
or death, you should immediately inform the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NHTSA, in addition to notifying MINI of North
America, LLC, P.O. Box 1227, Westwood, New
Jersey 07675-1227, Telephone
1-800-831-1117.
If NHTSA receives similar complaints, it may
open an investigation, and if it finds that a
safety defect exists in a group of vehicles, it
may order a recall and remedy campaign.
However, NHTSA cannot become involved in
individual problems between you, your dealer,
or MINI of North America, LLC.
To contact NHTSA, you may call the Vehicle
Safety Hotline toll-free at 1-888-327-4236
(TTY: 1-800-424-9153); go to http://www.safe‐
rcar.gov; or write to: Administrator, NHTSA, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590.
You can also obtain other information about
motor vehicle safety from http://www.safe‐
rcar.gov
For Canadian customers
Canadian customers who wish to report a
safety-related defect to Transport Canada, De‐
fect Investigations and Recalls, may telephone
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the toll-free hotline [phone]. You can
also obtain other information about motor ve‐
hicle safety from http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsaf‐
ety.
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WATCH ME.

AT A GLANCE
CONTROLS
DRIVING TIPS
MOBILITY
REFERENCE
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Cockpit
Vehicle equipment
All standard, country-specific and optional
equipment that is offered in the model series is
described in this chapter. Therefore, equipment
is also described that is not available in a vehi‐
cle, e. g., because of the selected optional
equipment or country variant. This also applies
for safety-related functions and systems.
All around the steering wheel
1Power windows 44
2Exterior mirror operation 52
3Central locking system 39
4Lamps
Front fog lamps 89
Parking lamps 86
Low beams 86
Automatic headlamp con‐
trol 87
Daytime running lights 87
Instrument lighting 89
5Steering wheel buttons, left
Cruise control on/off, inter‐
rupt 110
Cruise control on/off, inter‐
rupt 116
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Store speed
Resume speed 112, 117
Set speed 112, 116
Reduce distance 116
Increase distance 110
6Steering column stalk, left
Turn signal 64
High beams, head‐
lamp flasher 64
Roadside parking lamps 86
Computer 79
7Instrument cluster 71
8Steering column stalk, right
Windshield wipers 64
Rain sensor 65
Cleaning windows 66
Rear window wiper 66
Cleaning rear window 66
9Steering wheel buttons, right
Voice activation 26
Telephone
Confirm the selection 78
Move selection up 78
Move selection down 78
Increase volume
Reduce volume
10 Horn
11 Adjust the steering wheel 54
12 Unlock hood 180
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All around the center console
1Headliner 17
2Hazard warning system 201
Intelligent Safety 99
3Control Display 18
4Radio/Multimedia
5Glove compartment 141
6Climate control 127
7PDC Park Distance Control 118
Rearview camera 120
Parking assistant 122
Auto Start/Stop function 61
Start/stop the engine and switch
the ignition on/off 62
DSC Dynamic Stability Con‐
trol 106
Head-up Display 83
8Automatic transmission selector lever 67
Manual transmission selector lever 67
9Controller with buttons 18
10 Parking brake 63
11 Driving Dynamics Control 108
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All around the headliner
1Intelligent Emergency Re‐
quest 201
2Indicator lamp, front passenger
airbag 93
3Reading lamps 90
4Ambient light 90
5Glass sunroof 45
6Interior lamps 89
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Onboard monitor
Vehicle equipment
All standard, country-specific and optional
equipment that is offered in the model series is
described in this chapter. Therefore, equipment
is also described that is not available in a vehi‐
cle, e. g., because of the selected optional
equipment or country variant. This also applies
for safety-related functions and systems.
The concept
The onboard monitor combines the functions
of a multitude of switches. Thus, these func‐
tions can be operated from a central location.
Using the onboard monitor during a trip
To avoid becoming distracted and posing
an unnecessary hazard to your vehicle's occu‐
pants and to other road users, never attempt to
use the controls or enter information unless
traffic and road conditions allow this.◀
Controls at a glance
Control elements
1Control Display
2Controller with buttons and, depending on
the equipment version, with touchpad
Control Display
Hints
▷To clean the Control Display, follow the care
instructions.
▷Do not place objects close to the Control
Display; otherwise, the Control Display can
be damaged.
Switching off
1. Press the button.
2. "Switch off control display"
Switching on
Press the controller again to switch the screen
back on.
Controller with navigation system
The buttons can be used to open the menus di‐
rectly. The controller can be used to select
menu items and create the settings.
Some functions of the onboard monitor can be
operated using the touchpad on the controller:
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1. Turn.
2. Press.
3. Move in four directions.
Buttons on controller
Press the button Function
MENU Open the main menu.
RADIO Opens the Radio menu.
MEDIA Opens the Multimedia menu.
NAV Opens the Navigation menu.
TEL Opens the Telephone menu.
Press the button Function
BACK Displays the previous panel.
OPTION Opens the Options menu.
Controller without navigation system
The buttons can be used to open the menus di‐
rectly. The controller can be used to select
menu items and create the settings.
1. Turn.
2. Press.
3. Move in two directions.
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Buttons on controller
Press the button Function
MENU Open the main menu.
Audio Open audio menu last listened
to, switch between audio me‐
nus.
TEL Opens the Telephone menu.
BACK Open previous panel.
OPTION Opens the Options menu.
Operating concept
Opening the main menu
Press the button.
The main menu is displayed.
All onboard monitor functions can be called up
via the main menu.
Selecting menu items
Highlighted menu items can be selected.
1. Turn the controller until the desired menu
item is highlighted.
2. Press the controller.
Menu items in the Owner's Manual
In the Owner's Manual, menu items that can be
selected are set in quotation marks, e.g.,
"Settings".
Changing between panels
After a menu item is selected, e.g., "Radio", a
new panel is displayed. Panels can overlap.
▷Move the controller to the left.
The current panel is closed and the previ‐
ous panel is displayed.
The previous panel is opened again by
pressing the BACK button. In this case, the
current panel is not closed.
▷Move the controller to the right.
A new panel is opened on top of the previ‐
ous display.
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