Climate Question - Heat only from top??
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My Ride: Mine: 2005 545i Sport Pkg, Black Saphire/Black, Nav, Chrome Wheels ---------- Wife's: 2007 335i Sport/Prem Pkg, White/Auburn, Nav
I've noticed the following on mine. I start it in my garage and the climate controls in auto (A/C off), go inside and get my lunch, etc. for the day (takes me about 2 min). When I get to the car..a few mins later, the heat is on but I notice that all of the air is blowing from the top -- not the upper body or the footwell, but the windshield. If it's in automatic climate I don't want to mess witht the iDrive vent settings all the time. So now I start it and set the vents to the bottom and nothing on top. Once the car is totally warmed up (like when I'm almost to my office) I notice that I can turn on the Auto climate and it works fine.
Why is this? Does it assume that I'm outside and it's going to defrost the windshield first? Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks in advance.
Why is this? Does it assume that I'm outside and it's going to defrost the windshield first? Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks in advance.
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I've noticed the following on mine. I start it in my garage and the climate controls in auto (A/C off), go inside and get my lunch, etc. for the day (takes me about 2 min). When I get to the car..a few mins later, the heat is on but I notice that all of the air is blowing from the top -- not the upper body or the footwell, but the windshield. If it's in automatic climate I don't want to mess witht the iDrive vent settings all the time. So now I start it and set the vents to the bottom and nothing on top. Once the car is totally warmed up (like when I'm almost to my office) I notice that I can turn on the Auto climate and it works fine.
Why is this? Does it assume that I'm outside and it's going to defrost the windshield first? Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks in advance.
Why is this? Does it assume that I'm outside and it's going to defrost the windshield first? Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks in advance.
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My Ride: Mine: 2005 545i Sport Pkg, Black Saphire/Black, Nav, Chrome Wheels ---------- Wife's: 2007 335i Sport/Prem Pkg, White/Auburn, Nav
Thanks...I had already gone over that (several times!). It just seems like the Auto feature initially puts all of the heat to the windshield and there's really no way to customize that --- except taking it out of Auto.
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