While i like driving and enjoy my i3 since past 2 years, but there are 2-3 small things which quite often, still bug me big time, , and i wish there was a solution. I find these behavior un- natural , and have still not adjusted to the way , the car wants me to adjust.
1) I have a habit of turning the car ON ASAP, as I enter it, before i close the door. It may be sometimes, due to rare seat occupants, which prevent me from closing the door initially or , just desire to make the Bluetooth connect to my phone ASAP and turn ON AC.
Problem: I don’t understand why, but closing the door , causes the car to turn back off. I cant think of a reason, why closing the door with the occupant inside , should turn the car off
Can we do anything, so when we enter the car and close the door, the car does not shut off ?
2) Lock unlock acknowledgment
Yes , some time i forget that i locked the car as soon as i stepped out, and go back to at visual range of car to double check, and try to lock it again. Getting older .
Close to 10-20% of the time , the car fails to give acknowledge the remote lock press ( both visual lights and Audio (if enabled). I mean if the acknowledgement does not happen , the acknowledgement will only happen in the next trip.
The only way to be sure is look at the lock lever and hear the click sound. This requires you to be in a meter of the car, and fails to serve the purpose of the remote lock.
The problem is compounded, by the fact the car will not acknowledge anyway , if its already locked.
So , if I am 10 meters away , there is no way to be sure if the remote is not working and teh car is still unlocked , or the car is already locked.
The only solution left to me is to first unlock the car and then lock it. And if I dont hear and see anything , then goto the car back physically to see the state of lock.
Acknowledgement of lock key pressed , is like the most basic of all things in any remote lock request.
No Acknowledgement = car is still unlocked , , your distance may be too much with the radio interface
No Acknowledgement = Car got locked already
I am still struggling with this issue after 2 years
Any help to solve this issue , will be really appreciated , as I am still not adjusted to this.
3) Opening the windows.
If you keep the unlock button pressed , it is supposed to open the windows.
Issue : you need to be like within 2 meters of the car. else it does not work for me. If i am so close , then i might just unlock and then open too , my hot car. I like the feature , but its like unable.
Also the reverse, to close the windows , when lock key is pressed ,does not work.
The BMW app only shows that windows are open. no way to close the windows.
I like the hardware of the car, but the software bugs me. I want to fix these software issues
1) I have a habit of turning the car ON ASAP, as I enter it, before i close the door. It may be sometimes, due to rare seat occupants, which prevent me from closing the door initially or , just desire to make the Bluetooth connect to my phone ASAP and turn ON AC.
Problem: I don’t understand why, but closing the door , causes the car to turn back off. I cant think of a reason, why closing the door with the occupant inside , should turn the car off
Can we do anything, so when we enter the car and close the door, the car does not shut off ?
2) Lock unlock acknowledgment
Yes , some time i forget that i locked the car as soon as i stepped out, and go back to at visual range of car to double check, and try to lock it again. Getting older .
Close to 10-20% of the time , the car fails to give acknowledge the remote lock press ( both visual lights and Audio (if enabled). I mean if the acknowledgement does not happen , the acknowledgement will only happen in the next trip.
The only way to be sure is look at the lock lever and hear the click sound. This requires you to be in a meter of the car, and fails to serve the purpose of the remote lock.
The problem is compounded, by the fact the car will not acknowledge anyway , if its already locked.
So , if I am 10 meters away , there is no way to be sure if the remote is not working and teh car is still unlocked , or the car is already locked.
The only solution left to me is to first unlock the car and then lock it. And if I dont hear and see anything , then goto the car back physically to see the state of lock.
Acknowledgement of lock key pressed , is like the most basic of all things in any remote lock request.
No Acknowledgement = car is still unlocked , , your distance may be too much with the radio interface
No Acknowledgement = Car got locked already
I am still struggling with this issue after 2 years
Any help to solve this issue , will be really appreciated , as I am still not adjusted to this.
3) Opening the windows.
If you keep the unlock button pressed , it is supposed to open the windows.
Issue : you need to be like within 2 meters of the car. else it does not work for me. If i am so close , then i might just unlock and then open too , my hot car. I like the feature , but its like unable.
Also the reverse, to close the windows , when lock key is pressed ,does not work.
The BMW app only shows that windows are open. no way to close the windows.
I like the hardware of the car, but the software bugs me. I want to fix these software issues