Hello everyone, been a long time as my 2009 Clubman has not had any issues. Finally, though, one arrived. The Tire Pressure monitoring System is down and MINI diagnosed it being a bad RDC Antenna. I buy and install as many repair parts as I can either myself or with a local mechanic rather than pay the dealer costs.

I obtained a new RDC Antenna ($65) rather than pay the $250 to have Mini buy an install.

Where is the RDC Antenna located on a 2009 Clubman? Is it accessible enough for me to do it.

 

Welcome to NAM. Please post a pix of your Clubman when you have the chance. According to the Bentley Manual page 300-8 it is located under the rear bumper. Hope this helps!

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Ok, but it must be smaller than I thought, all I saw was a very small skinny bracket with one wire feeding. I will have to raise the bumper up and take a closer look.

 

There might be a cover, part 02 in the picture. I don't know where on the car this is, sorry.

01 Control unit RDC
02 Bracket control unit RDC
04 Reception antenna RDC



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I may have found the answer on the Motoring Alliance site. NAM won't allow me to hyperlink to it. Credit to user Slam.

"On my 2008 Clubman S, I found the RDC antenna under a panel at the right rear of the body, near the front right corner of the gas tank.

If you follow the plastic rocker panel cover on the right side of the car back to the rear wheel, under the body, it overlaps another black plastic panel that covers the antenna and what may be the carbon canister. It's about a foot long and 6 inches wide, I guess. This piece covers the underbody area near the front of the right rear wheel well. It's held in place by three plastic panel plugs with phillips-head insert screws, a plastic nut, and a rear-facing metal panel screw. Two of the panel plugs overlap into holes at the rear of the rocker panel cover. The other plug is in a crevice in the center of the panel.

Anyway, you'll need to remove that panel to access the antenna. You can catch a small glimpse of the antenna if you shine a light while lying on the ground facing the rear of the car at the bottom of the wheel well near the intersection of the rocker panel cover and the cover at the rear of it. I found it easiest to remove the entire cover to get a good grip on the antenna to pull it out of its holder, but you might be able to drop the front of the panel and sneak a hand in there. The antenna holder is attached to the front end of what looks like the emissions control carbon canister.

Replacing this cleared my CC-ID 149 code with TPM Malfunction error message. Good luck, and thanks to the previous posters for their insight."