You know what I've never noticed before.....

[Paul]

The two little lights that shine out of the bottom of the switch panel on to the front cup holder area.

I only just noticed these when fitting my chrome capped ash tray (coin holder), and I noticed the two little lights in the reflection!

[mikeythemini]

& there was me thinking you knew everything about Mini

[ALD0]

I thought it was just a Gap in the Plastic and the light was coming from the rocket switches?

[Hat]

nope, if you put your hand under there's two orange lights. one of those surprise & delight features

[monkeynuts]

hey mikey i guess then you could change the bulbs??

[Rich-UK]

All BMW's have it, the MINI ones are fainter though. It's a nice feature IMO, adds to the ambience of the interior when it's dark.

[umberto]

I put a much brighter light in that area right next to those little lights.....it is a little LED keychain light that is about the size of a US nickel and I velcro'd it up there...you just reach under and up with your finger a press the button and it looks like a little fluorescent light and it shuts itself off after 5 seconds...quite nice

[Pepper-Cooper]

Well I just made the quickest dash to my car to go and see this for myself. Hmmm, I always thought the light was that came from the top two ambient lights.... but there they were

[Goonery]

I've got blue ones in mine


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[LMB]

Quote: Originally Posted by goonery

I've got blue ones in mine


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Midlife crisis?

[DeadCanDanceR]

I noticed them almost since the very first day I had my MINI. I use the ashtray as a storage cup for extra keys and I thought that it was so convenient for it to be lighted!

But there's one thing I hadn't noticed before: I always tilted the sunroof by pulling the sunroof's switch. I recently realized (by chance) that if you push that switch it tilts automatically!

[Mini Me GB]

The dealer pointed them out to me as down-lighters.. Another extremely cool feature I love!

[Paul]

Don't get me wrong, I knew there was light down there, I just thought it was incidental or light that just came from the back of the unit, just never noticed the two deliberate light sources down there.

[Dead Duck]

Hey you're right!

I just ran outside to go and look at mine! We're just big kids really huh?!
Shame there's no ambient footwell ones too.

[DeadCanDanceR]

Other lights that I've recently noticed were the ones used under the doors to light up the ground as you enter your MINI!