Hi SueBMW,

I have also found my boot (trunk) open on several occasions, quite worryingly.
Perhaps four or five times in the last six months since I got the car. I have now come to the conclusion that it is because I keep several keys on the same ring and that the key ring itself is pushing against the boot release button whilst I walk away with the keys in my pocket. I have also found that the boot opener can work from quite a distance, adding to the problem. For the last month or so I keep the car key in the slim leather wallet that it came with, it's still on the key ring but cannot accidentally be depressed and I have not had a re-occurence of the boot opening. Try it and see if it works for you.

 

Thinking about it, isn't there glass that will break one way but not the other? i'm sure there is, does the bmw have it on the protection glass?

 

Yeah, except I don't carry both the BMW & Range Rover keys together, so that isn't happening, and I never got a leather boot for the key. Our keys are on the counter, not somewhere where something can be accidentally pushed. I rarely ever put them in my pocket, either... They go on a tether in my purse & hang freely. But I leave the BMW key on the counter, with the Range Rover key on the tether in my purse.

 

Do the emergency escape hammers work with the special glass?

 

No, because they are made for hardened glass and safety glass is a sandwich of glass and polycarbonate/acrylate and is design against that kind of force.

Skaffa