z4 soft close doors

It's like the boot. Nice little touch and ideal when there is always someone that wants to slam the door shut so hard you think the window may break!
 
I think this is aimed more at people who can't seem to get the pressure right. They either do it too lightly or too hard. I know mike always never shuts the door properly first time round then slams it the second time usually leading to me staring at him. Not something I would invest in, I'll just hope he one day figures out how to close it properly.
 
Maniac said:
My e89 doors shut incredibly easily and there's no need for this.
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This & it seems to totally defeat the second most useful bit of comfort access. Closing the door and locking the car by simply closing the door with two fingers on the rearward undercut bit of door handle
 
techathy said:
Maniac said:
My e89 doors shut incredibly easily and there's no need for this.
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This & it seems to totally defeat the second most useful bit of comfort access. Closing the door and locking the car by simply closing the door with two fingers on the rearward undercut bit of door handle
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Not sure how it totally defeats that. Currently I close the door usually by putting my hand on the window or on the handle, a slight push away from my hand and it shuts, I then return my hand, well finger to the door to close it I've never had to use more than one for that. With soft close you still shut the door and then lock it the way you want to unless I've missed something that says it would render the comfort access defunct.

But hey some people would like this and others won't or wouldn't be interested in it. Wouldn't do if everyone liked everything.
 
For me 45% of comfort access is being able to get into the car when I have something in each hand and not putting anything on the ground. 20% is not needing to have the key in the slot when starting the car. The remaining 35% is closing the door and locking the car in one seamless action. If have to close door, wait for door to close then lock the car as far as I’m concerned the about 35% of the comfort access value has been removed.

Comfort access locking procedure.
1. Get out of car
2. if walking towards the front of the car reach over the window with your left hand, if walking towards the rear reach around the door with your right hand
3. place two fingers on the undercut section of the door handle & gently push the door too
4. keep fingers on the door handle as you turn around
5. keep an eye on an indicator to make sure it flashes as you the walk away keeping your fingers on the door handle until you can no longer reach comfortably.
The car is now locked. The above is actually one seamless action once you’ve stood up.
 
So what your saying is you don't let go of the door once you've started the action to close it. That's what you should have stated that in your first post. Still doesn't defeat the purpose of comfort access, just the way you like to close the door and you'd still be able to do that, it would just take a second or two longer to shut. Plus they don't show if you shut the door with slightly more power than just a small nudge if the soft close kicks in. Like I said everyone is different.

It's not something's aftermarket I would add but I get why it would be useful, especially for people parking in tight spaces, garages etc. I also get that people won't like it but when you make a statement saying that it defeats the purpose of a feature of the car you need to state to you. People who may consider such an option may be put off by thinking that a feature of their car will no longer work or be compromised when it's just your personal preference to shut your door in the fashion you seem to have laid out above.

I'm sure there are others who possibly do what you do but not everyone will and not everyone will get out the car after stopping and lock it straight away.
 
The amount of people I have to warn when the roof is open … open roof means close the door even softer than normal. Closed roof means slightly harder.

I do agree that I always love the soft close on my X5.
 
Angie4m said:
Still doesn't defeat the purpose of comfort access
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I never said that! I said it defeated the second most useful bit of comfort access. Something which I found on a 5 series with comfort access & soft close doors.

Angie4m said:
People who may consider such an option may be put off by thinking that a feature of their car will no longer work or be compromised when it's just your personal preference to shut your door in the fashion you seem to have laid out above.
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When I was deciding on spec on my 1 series I asked for a demonstration of the comfort access system, the only cars the sales exec knew had comfort access also had soft close. Before we got to the car he felt the need to mentioned that the soft close feature made locking of the car via the handle much more awkward than it would be on a non-soft close car. If he felt the need to mention it before taking me to a car for demonstration then does mean to some extent that feature of comfort access is compromised.

To turn what you said on it's head just because you shut the door in such a way that doesn't cause an issue doesn't mean someone else won't get irritated by the function of those two options combined.
 
techathy said:
To turn what you said on it's head just because you shut the door in such a way that doesn't cause an issue doesn't mean someone else won't get irritated by the function of those two options combined.
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Which is what I've already said. If you don't like it you don't need to have that as an option or fit aftermarket as it's not an option on the E89 but some people, like PVR do or may like that feature.

If you don't like that then fine say not for me but you've made it sound like a stupid/inconvenient function just because you don't like the way it interferes with the way you shut your door. I know that quite a few guys on here have invested in smarttops to help with getting in and out the car when parked in small garages. This function coupled with comfort access would be perfect for them.

You don't like that, that's fine. I think it has the potential to be a good addition and that's that.

With regards to the dealer pointing it out it's probably more of a this is a really cool feature which actually BMW are quite proud of but it is a marmite addition for some although not due to the comfort access.
 
In any car with a passenger I've always dropped the window slightly so they don't slam the door and never slam the door using the door handle.

Tim.
 
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