MINI key fob. What's it all about?

[Max Stetson]

What is it with the MINI key fob? I was sat in the pub yesterday and just wondered if it actually is designed to do anything apart from look nice. It looks like it should or was it just designed to bamboozle??

[supa-dupa-cooper]

You mean the R56 key?

I like it It confuses people, they go 'but wheres your key'

[Max Stetson]

No the key fob. The metal stretched oval with the orange rubber insert. Not the key

[supa-dupa-cooper]

I knew that Just testing

I dunno what its for, I dropped mine and took a chunk out of both it and the key

[NeuroBeaker]

I was trying to figure that out the other day too.

If you pull out the orange insert, then you end up with a metal 'prong' like thing... looks a little bit like the sort of thing you'd use to fix impact sites on a golfing green - don't you think? Though a little too wide and not quite pointy enough.

I think it's just basically a key-chain ornament, and it was cheaper to put the orange thing in as an insert than manufacture a coloured ring around the metal component.

Any other theories?

All the best,
Andrew.

[MINI Poser]

I too think it must be for repairing golf greens...

But....you cant fit a set of clubs in a MINI?!

[David King]

The Orange bit had faded on my key ring, so i swapped the orange bit around with the key ring on my Mini Courtesy car i had

[ViscountCharles]

I work at various Court buildings. And after extensive studies, about the only thing that orange keyfob does is catch the attention of the security guards at the entrance to every Court. For some reason, if you're wearing epaulettes it looks like some sort of weapon.

[Bluebabe]

Don't know if it was meant for this, but I used it to dig stones from my treads!!!!

[Ant FR]

actually guys i would have thought one of you would have known this, its actually a money clip, takt eh orange or balck bit out and you will see what i mean. Et Voila!

[Bluebabe]

HOORAYY!!!! we finally found out!


No good for me tho ain't got no dough!!!!

[NeuroBeaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ant FR (original)

actually guys i would have thought one of you would have known this, its actually a money clip, takt eh orange or balck bit out and you will see what i mean. Et Voila!

Actually, I did consider that, but you'd need quite a large number of bills for it to be able to grip onto it. The one half-shredded £5 note and £0.26 worth of pennies in my pocket don't really tidy away neatly into the keyring.

[ViscountCharles]

Indeed. Those "cup holders" are clearly too small for cups, so your money clearly belongs in one of them.

Does the key ring function as some sort of bottle opener, perhaps?

[M.O.S]

Maybe the idea was that when you go over a bump, your keyring hits the dash / steering column. The orange bit may have been to stop the noise?!

[minicabrio]

As per Ants post above, he is correct, the key ring is a money clip.

Designed primarily for the US and Europe, where motorway journeys may require you to constantly negiociate toll booths - the idea is, with your money clipped on your key ring, its always to hand when you need it.

You do need a decent wadge of notes for it to work though This works better in the US with dollar bills etc improving the size of ones wadge