Things you only discover after a long time with your car..

[Anonymous]

Ive got Button 8 assigned to Night Time Mode - it Toggles between Day/Night
The system has no Auto day/night and its not nice having Cyclops beaming that much light into your eyes at night.

Yes that's a good use of that button / feature

 

[ronk]

I take no credit for that find!
It was a forum member on here years ago - my observation was the Toggle - originally I set 7 day and 8 for night!

 

[N4LLY]

Comfort Entry & Exit Mode:

1) Entering the car:
Pressing the open button on the key fob twice, the windows get lowered automatically when opening the door and will go up again after closing the door.

2) Exiting the car:
Take the key in your hand, once again press the open button twice, the window gets lowered and raised up when opening the door, even when leaving the car.

Very useful in tiny parking slots.

Hhhm just been to try this. Did not work for me ? :?

 

[Scubaregs]

I can't get the digital key to work. Set it up, car says it's fine, shows in MY BMW app and in apple wallet, but will not unlock doors.
However if I unlock the car then put the key out of range, placing my phone in the tray will allow me to start the car.

 

[Huzee4]

Comfort Entry & Exit Mode:

1) Entering the car:
Pressing the open button on the key fob twice, the windows get lowered automatically when opening the door and will go up again after closing the door.

2) Exiting the car:
Take the key in your hand, once again press the open button twice, the window gets lowered and raised up when opening the door, even when leaving the car.

Very useful in tiny parking slots.

Hhhm just been to try this. Did not work for me ? :?

I’m sure I had to tick a box somewhere on the idrive screen to enable this feature ?

 

[Marcoose]

Hhhm just been to try this. Did not work for me ? :?

It seems this feature is not universal throughout all years, models, trims and countries. It doesn’t work on my car either, and it has comfort and exit packages. Go figure.

 

[ronk]

It’s a good feature as well given how much that pointed bit sticks backwards!

 

[Nictrix]

I discovered that when its clean I dont get to drive it :lol:

 

[Huzee4]

Try this

 

[Kiwi_Mike]

Great thread - very informative.

I’ve now set button 8 to open/close the screen. Didn’t know you could do that. I’ve not come across night mode, will need to look for that in idrive.

I seem to be able to get the window to go down when entering the car but not exiting which seems strange.

 

[RobbiZ4]

I seem to be able to get the window to go down when entering the car but not exiting which seems strange.

Did you press the open button on the FOB twice, before opening the door and leaving the car?

 

[Marcoose]

Ive got Button 8 assigned to Night Time Mode - it Toggles between Day/Night
The system has no Auto day/night and its not nice having Cyclops beaming that much light into your eyes at night.

For the life of me, I cannot remember or find how to toggle between day and night. Could somebody please help? Thanks.

 

[Marcoose]

Try this

My car doesn’t have that. Zut.

 

[N4LLY]

I seem to be able to get the window to go down when entering the car but not exiting which seems strange.

Did you press the open button on the FOB twice, before opening the door and leaving the car?

What an idiot i am Double click and physicaly open door and window shoots down, close door and up it goes

 

[alex7123]

I seem to be able to get the window to go down when entering the car but not exiting which seems strange.

Did you press the open button on the FOB twice, before opening the door and leaving the car?

What an idiot i am Double click and physicaly open door and window shoots down, close door and up it goes

Is there a way to turn this off? (Without iDrive) Only noticed it when I got a smarttop module, when I triple unlock to put the roof down it must trigger the comfort entry as the window goes back up when I close the door. If I've got the roof down I want the windows to stay down
Had a look through carrista and couldn't find anything relating to it, possible the smarttop itself is triggering it but can't find any options for that in its settings.

 

[ronk]

Ive got Button 8 assigned to Night Time Mode - it Toggles between Day/Night
The system has no Auto day/night and its not nice having Cyclops beaming that much light into your eyes at night.

For the life of me, I cannot remember or find how to toggle between day and night. Could somebody please help? Thanks.

It’s a while since I did this but I seen to remember changing the setting to Night mode - pressing and holding button 8

From map view select 8 and it swaps between night and day mode.

If it won’t toggle between you could use 7 for Day and 8 for Night

 

[Anonymous]

Ive got Button 8 assigned to Night Time Mode - it Toggles between Day/Night
The system has no Auto day/night and its not nice having Cyclops beaming that much light into your eyes at night.

For the life of me, I cannot remember or find how to toggle between day and night. Could somebody please help? Thanks.

It’s a while since I did this but I seen to remember changing the setting to Night mode - pressing and holding button 8

From map view select 8 and it swaps between night and day mode.

If it won’t toggle between you could use 7 for Day and 8 for Night

You only need the one button to toggle between night n day

 

[Marcoose]

Ok. More basic. How do we toggle from day to night modes? Thanks.

 

[ronk]

The button set to night - press again and it sets the screen to day! Ie it toggles between the two modes

 

[Marcoose]

Sorry, Ron. I’m still drunk from celebrating the EUFA championship.

Which button makes the toggle? Thanks.