2010 Mini Clubman R55: Pro’s & Con’s – BimmerCode for BMW and MINI Review

Im using this with the OBD MX+ with an iPhone in iOS 13. The app has been great for making some minor, but crucial changes to the MINI. Turning off the seatbelt reminders, enabling “Always On” digital speed display, modifying the ‘Comfort Access’ settings and so on. •—• There is however one big issue I have consistently had. If I use BimmerCode to change ANY of the Footwell Module (that controls a number of things like Check Control, and in this case lighting) settings, I somehow disable the primary two brake lights. By modifying in any way the DRL, even changing the hazard flash settings to ‘double flash’ - then the two primary brake lights - so the left & right brake lights no longer operate with the use of the brakes. To elaborate, if Footwell module settings are modified seeming any amount, even seemingly irrelevant settings, then the L & R rear lights will ONLY operate as running lights. When the brake is applied only the third brake light - the top, center brake light - will engage. The two, L& R lights will maintain their normal brightness. This is really annoying and on 3 occasions took another driver (all MINI drivers funny enough) notifying me of this to find out. •—• To the developers: Please, please, please go through and do a translate to English on the ‘Expert’ settings features! I have gone through and translated many of them, but there are a bunch, and of course I cannot save my translations, so I need to revert back to a MS Word document to look up translations! For the most part BimmerCode is a very cool app with a ton of potential. The one issue I had, while a pretty big one, still wouldn’t change my decision to use the app. I definitely recommend BimmerCode as well as BimmerLink for diagnostic, temperature monitoring, check engine light resets & Error Memory reporting. I look forward to the future updates the developers come out with!
Review by the_kevlar_kid on BimmerCode for BMW and MINI.