Sport button, Flat tire monitor ftm – Mini 2010 Clubman User Manual

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Sport button*

Pressing the button causes your MINI to respond
even more sportily.

Engine responds more spontaneously to
movements of the accelerator.

Steering response is more direct.

Cooper S, John Cooper Works: the engine
sounds more sporty in coasting mode.

With automatic transmission:

More rapid gear shifting in Sport program.

Activating the system

Press the SPORT button.
The LED lights up.
SPORT is briefly displayed in the tachometer.

Deactivating the system

Press the SPORT button again.

Switch off the engine.

Flat Tire Monitor FTM

The concept

The Flat Tire Monitor detects pressure loss in a
tire by comparing the rotating speeds of the
individual tires while moving.
If a tire loses pressure, its rolling circumference
changes, and this in turn alters the speed of
rotation. This change is detected and is reported
as a flat tire.

Functional requirement

In order to assure the reliable reporting of a flat
tire, the system must be initialized for the cor-
rect tire inflation pressure.

Each time you correct the pressure in a
tire, or change a wheel or tire, the system

must be reinitialized.

System limitations

The Flat Tire Monitor is unable to warn the driver
of sudden, severe tire damage caused by exter-
nal factors, nor can it identify the gradual loss of
pressure that will inevitably occur in all four tires
over a lengthy period of time.
In the following situations, the system could be
delayed or malfunction:

System has not been initialized

Driving on snowy or slippery road surface

Performance-oriented style of driving: slip in
the drive wheels, high lateral acceleration

Snow chains are attached

When the vehicle is driven with a space-saver
spare tire

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, the Flat Tire Monitor can-

not function.

Initializing the system

The initialization is completed during driv-
ing, which can be interrupted at any time.

When driving resumes, the initialization is con-
tinued automatically.
Do not initialize the system if you are driving
with snow chains or a space-saver spare tire