Tomorrow I will be shipping my 400th auto up windows MINI circuit! I had this crazy idea to produce a USA map showing where they all have been shipped – so I gathered the ZIP code of every shipment into a spreadsheet, then tried to find a way to plot them on a map.
I was stumped, so called for help on MINI2 and quickly got a very useful reply from Jason (snid on MINI2). He directed me to TIGER Map and a couple of pages which gave enough hints to get the job done:
Producing this map is not difficult with TIGER Map – but that service is now gone …
Anyway the map unsurprisingly shows a concentration of MINI circuits to the east and west coast of USA, especially Boston, New York, Washington DC, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles. But there is also a cluster around Atlanta and around Dallas – I presume there is a MINI dealership at each location.
The Boston area is also (negatively) skewed because of the MINI circuits I have personally installed or delivered; I don’t have a ZIP code for those people!
In addition to the US mainland, there are MINI circuits in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Canada, England, Germany, Switzerland and Austria!
M&I / GBMINI 
More congrats to you Ian, that really is a shocking number! Maybe by now it is time for MINI to take notice and altho I understand their reasons for making auto-up default, perhaps offer it as an optional dealer program.
If you don’t have my zip and would like it, it is 02144.
Ian,
Looks like you only need 9 states to have one in all 50!
I have updated the map to show the location of MINI dealerships – now we can see the “brave” MINI owners who are many miles from any dealership!
Ian, you can put the one you installed for me down as 04553 if you like or the the old address of 02554… your pick… still the best bang for the buck of all my MINI add ons by far… well done and again thank you for this wonderful gadget
I love my Auto Up. It’s the best modification that I’ve done to my MINI!
Ian! The Auto Up arrived in the mail today. Thanks for getting it out to me super fast! It was a breeze to install and works great. You can add my zip code (99615) to your map, and cross Alaska off your list. 🙂
So far I’ve got the auto up activated on both windows, and auto fogs. Once I get my ABS/DSC problem fixed, I’ll enable the Track Mode DSC as well. Thanks for making such an awesome little circuit for us!