Hi all! I recently bought a used Mini. I've had it about 2 weeks. Today I noticed on the display that it said "SD", so I looked it up in the manual. Apparently this is sport mode? Anyway, I've never seen it in anything else. Today briefly at around 90 mph it was in plain D mode, but for the most part it is in SD. It never says P, or N or anything else. When I push the shifter to the right, in manual shift mode or whatever, it does nothing. The light that says m/s is always on too. Pushing it plus or minus in this position changes nothing either. Is my car permanently stuck in "sport mode"? What can I do to make it go into normal drive mode? Or is this all normal?

 

 

Hi Elizabeth! I haven't really found a solution. I started checking electrical connections under the hood, and fuses there and in the kick plate in the driver's side. I must have done something, because it started coming out of sport mode on it's own. It still goes back to being stuck, but it's better now. I'm still trying to track it down, but I'm thinking it is something electrical. Yesterday, I was passing someone at around 80 mph, and pushed it into sport mode, and it got stuck there and hasn't come back out. I will make sure to post anything I find. I may end up taking it to a dealer.

 

I have a thread about it in this Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/504433849698049/

 

 

Did you fix this in the end?