Mini Cooper R50/R52/R53 Instrument Cluster Reset Instructions

1. Calling up the reset function for the instrument cluster of the MINI (Convertible or Coupé as of 07/04)

IMPORTANT: read through once beforehand!!

A. Ignition lock in position ’0’ (ignition off)

B. Press the trip recorder reset button (hold down)

C. Ignition lock in position ’2’ (ignition on) ’tESt 1’ appears in the display.

D. Press the trip recorder reset button again immediately until ’tESt 19’

E. Wait a little - ’_L_off’ and ’_L_on’ appear alternately on the display

F. With ’_L_off’, press the trip recorder reset button once

G. Press the trip recorder reset button again immediately until ’tESt 21’ appears

H. Wait until ’ 21.0’ appears in the display

I. Press the trip recorder reset button once -> Reset is started.

 

2. Test function for instrument cluster 

2.1 To start the test functions, the ignition must be off. Then press and hold down the trip recorder reset button in the instrument cluster. Then switch the ignition on. ”tESt 1” appears in the display. Pressing the reset button again takes you to the different test numbers.

2.2 In the case of locked tests (tests 3 to 21), with test 19 on appearance of the display ”_L_oFF” (alternates between _L_oFF and _L_oN) pressing the reset button opens the lock. Then the display then jumps to test 0 so that the corresponding test number group can be selected immediately by pressing again.

2.3 If a test number contains other subfunctions, after choice of the test number the display ”tESt x.0” (x stands for the selected test number) appears automatically in the display. Pressing the reset button again enables selection of another subtest step (function) or one can be started as with ”system test”.

 

Test No.	Function
1	Identification Instrument Cluster
	1.0 Vehicle identification number without ASCII characters
	1.2 BMW part number
	1.3 Coding index, diagnosis index and bus index
	1.4 Date of manufacture of the instrument cluster (week/year)
	1.5 Hardware number, software number
	1.7 CAN-bus index, revision index
2	System test
3	Service interval display - data (SIA data)
	3.0 SIA-data, liters since last reset
	3.1 SIA-data, time inspection, time counter since last reset
9	System voltage terminal 30 in volts
13	Triggering an acoustic signal (gong T3)
19	Locking and Unlocking Test Functions
21	Reset instrument cluster (software reset)
0	End of test, the test mode can be quit with this function.