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Hello all!
I recently became a used MINI owner two weeks ago, and as I was reading through the owner's manual. I thought it was cool how you could open the tailgate by holding down the unlock button on the remote for 5 seconds, but when I tried it, the windows rolled down instead.
What am I doing wrong?
Oh, and here are some pictures of Stella (named after Charlize Theron in The Italian Job
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I recently became a used MINI owner two weeks ago, and as I was reading through the owner's manual. I thought it was cool how you could open the tailgate by holding down the unlock button on the remote for 5 seconds, but when I tried it, the windows rolled down instead.
What am I doing wrong?
Oh, and here are some pictures of Stella (named after Charlize Theron in The Italian Job
) and my beautiful girlfriend.
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08-25-2006, 08:35 PM
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ellistotle, what year is your MINI? there was a change in key style, with different buttons, i think for the '05 models. older cars had to choose between comfort opening (the windows) and opening the hatch with the extended hold. this is dealer programmable. newer keys have a separate button for the hatch.
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08-25-2006, 08:44 PM
Originally Posted by PrplPplEtr
ellistotle, what year is your MINI? there was a change in key style, with different buttons, i think for the '05 models. older cars had to choose between comfort opening (the windows) and opening the hatch with the extended hold. this is dealer programmable. newer keys have a separate button for the hatch.
There is a button on the newer keys that unlocks just the hatch, but I've never hear of the hatch being automated, however the windows/sunroof can be opened by remote, which is programmable by the dealer.
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ellistotle - Without trying to sound too randy, nice ride! 
I think people are getting confised by what 'open' means - IMHO, I always thought it was UNLOCK, and not automagically unLATCH. On my '02, if I barely touch the boot handle to pop the latch and don't pull it up, it'll click back down into the first 'catch' of the latch - which makes the auto-open (unlatch, not unlock) kinda useless in my position. (But my car doesn't do any of that..)
Cheers!
Mike Fox.
I think people are getting confised by what 'open' means - IMHO, I always thought it was UNLOCK, and not automagically unLATCH. On my '02, if I barely touch the boot handle to pop the latch and don't pull it up, it'll click back down into the first 'catch' of the latch - which makes the auto-open (unlatch, not unlock) kinda useless in my position. (But my car doesn't do any of that..)
Cheers!
Mike Fox.
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