New door handle found on 2025 Mini models

New door handle

A final review of 2025 Mini finds a new door handle. It is effectively a carbon copy of the handle found on the new BMW i4 model, and gives easier access to the key hole for the driver in the event that the key fob battery dies.

Beggining in 2025, Mini John Cooper Works models feature the handle seen to the right. With this handle, lifting it to the open position exposes the key hole on the right side.

Insert the mechanical key into the key hole and turn to unlock.

Smart Keys or Intelligent Keys, or Access Keys — or whatever the manufacturer of your chooses to call them — that let you into your car and start it with just a touch use up their internal batteries at alarming rates, catching busy drivers unawares — even though the car had tried to warn you. Getting in your car with a dead key fob requires the work our posts and videos describe.

Our goal is to help you feel safe — and keep you moving or get you moving if at all possible — rather than leave you fretting whenever your key fob stops working. The instructions for getting into and starting most keyless start cars can be found on our pages — without roadside assistance.

The back up open page for BMW and Mini can be found here.

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