michelinou

Bizarre, bizarre !
The extended a/c system allows to choose for automatic a/c for both driver and passenger, or separately.
This option is shown on the Nav screen, a/c setup, with an icon at the left ('auto' for driver setup) and to the right ('auto' for passender setup) to be activated or not, according to the choice of having a/c atomated, or kept manual.
This is what the book says (see page 95), as on my Nav screen, no 'auto' option is shown. :'(

According to my dealer, it seems that these icons only appear if you have 'a large screen', i.o.w Navigation Professional.
With Nav Business, these options are not displayed and therefore not usable !

Strange to me that a/c options are also depending on the type of Navigation tool your car is equipped with !

All comments are welcome.

alohalc

welcome aboard, michelinou ! i don't have nav and i remember i've seen those in my car's idrive screen. i have to double check .

Hormazd

This is in the manual and was removed with CIP V12x. I guess they figured the auto buttons were redundant. If you adjust your vent settings in this window you will see the auto light on the dash switch off. Push the button and you will see your vent settings return to what they were before. This is nothing to do with screen size. I have the largest screen and ProNav.

Its not really that bizarre.

Hormazd

Dup post

michelinou

Correct, I noticed that, but the difference to me is that with the software options you could handle both driver and passenger setup separately (e.g. one in auto mode and the other in manual), something that with 'the hardware button' you cannot.

Hormazd

I had that feature when I first took delivery in Europe. It did not work. They must have had a problem. My wife would turn the heat up and still get cold air. Now with auto on she can turn up the heat which automatically turns her vents to blow more in the footwell, while the driver side is cooler with more air from the dash. It works for me.

michelinou

Thanks a lot for the explaination ... at least I'm now capable of giving my dealer some information he is not aware of ....

Stranger

Once the vent setting is touched, the auto light in the dash will go off. If it's the passenger's vents that have been touched, the driver's side is in the auto mode I believe. I have tried it because if I vary the temperature for the driver, I could see the vent setting change on its own; however changing the temperature for the passenger wouldn't have any effect on the vent setting. It makes sense. So you can still do manual setting for 1 and leave the other in the auto mode.

BMW RULES

My dad have nav prof and had the same like in the pic here above. But since he haves an software update (voice control added) that things are gone.

I don't like how it is now to difficult.

I have no idea why the changed it.

Stranger

No I don't think it is now difficult. It's in fact simpler. Once you touch the vent setting, it goes into the manual mode for the side concerned. There is no need to have to click on the setting. It's implicit.