Did you say you had to code the car to remember the previous settings? I thought they came from the factory like this?

Also my old 1er used to remember each keys last climate settings, so if I used the spare key (only I drove it) then the climate came on at a different temperature than if I used my main key.

Has your wife inadvertantly swapped to the other key?

 

Not that I am aware. The spare key is firmly under lock and key.

Reading around, climate control not remembering the last setting seems to be one of the big frustrations with the F20.

Looking online I found some reference to the climate control not coming on on startup if the outside temp was sub zero, although this was for an F30 I think.

Its not like its a big issue, just more curious as to why the change of behaviour.

 

Seems strange - ours always comes on at the last setting, along with the last radio station/audio used (usb, cd etc) and volume. It's key dependent and will remember the last setting used for each key.

It's a 1 previous owner car - maybe they had it coded or something, but it seems odd that it would turn itself off. Could the battery be going flat in the key or something, so it's not remembering? Or a key fault in general?

 

Our 2 f20's remember the climate settings every time it's turned off. We have never started the car and had to turn the climate back on.

 

Thanks for the replies. That's the thing, ours used to be on when turned on, but in the last week that has changed for no good reason that I can tell.

 

Thanks for the replies. That's the thing, ours used to be on when turned on, but in the last week that has changed for no good reason that I can tell.

Is it a battery issue? How old is the car?

A lot of the strange electrical issues tend to be knackered battery related

 

Car is 4 months old. I re-did the coding and works fine now, but still not sure what caused the issue. Very strange.

 

Old thread but seems related.

First nuisance I've found with the F20. Every time I get in the car I have to cycle through to get air blowing up at the windscreen, the car doesn't remember previous settings.

I know the previous owner has done some coding (alarm beep, sound symposer off, door handles lights on in reverse). Is this something that can be coded, for the car to remember or resort to default every time?

Or am I just missing something altogether? :chin:

 

My 2013 car forgot, but my 2014 remembers. I'm sure it's just a simple coding change, like Stop/Start remembering last setting (or default off).

 

Thank mp. The car's a 2015 LCI. Is Carly or bimmercode up to the job? Ive got the carly app and obd plug and the previous owner left what I think is a vgate obd plug in the car which I presume he used with bimmercode.

 

Probably, I use Esys though.

 

Finally got round to trying this yesterday evening with carly. In IHKA 'save circulation settings' turned it 'on', had a short period of flashing lights/climate control looking busy while it was coding. Success!

Got in the car this morning, hasn't remembered :x

 

Two thoughts:
1. Could this be caused by a dodgy key battery? I seem to remember a BMW of mine ages back which did the aircon off thing when I went to use the spare key which had not been used in 3 years.
2. Issue with service reset not being right - again I recall cars which came back from a service with 'default' settings on things like aircon. However they did seem to 'remember' after settings were reselected.

 

Finally got round to trying this yesterday evening with carly. In IHKA 'save circulation settings' turned it 'on', had a short period of flashing lights/climate control looking busy while it was coding. Success!

Got in the car this morning, hasn't remembered :x

Is your battery healthy? The car will cut power to non-essential circuits if it's dying.

 

Finally got round to trying this yesterday evening with carly. In IHKA 'save circulation settings' turned it 'on', had a short period of flashing lights/climate control looking busy while it was coding. Success!

Got in the car this morning, hasn't remembered :x

Is your battery healthy? The car will cut power to non-essential circuits if it's dying.

Without checking as yet, I can only say I should hope so. It's only just over 2 years old.

I've taken that onboard however and must confess that when I first coded it I did get the low voltage warning message.

I've tried again, this time with the car running. I'll soon find out if it's worked or not. Funnily enough though when I got carly to read the IHKA today it is saying that 'save circulation settings' is turned on, despite not actually memorising them! At least not this morning anyway.

 

Well the car was left for a good hour and a half, seems to have remembered last settings this time :chin:

Fingers crossed that's it done.

 

Hard to gauge battery health by age, we had one member destroy a battery in a month (via 400 stop/starts)! Low voltage warnings are not a good sign.

 

Hmm... do our cars have the coloured/health display on the battery? I'll check that tomorrow if it has one.

 

Don't think so. How many volts does it have, according to Carly / the dash? Should be a solid 12.6V really.

 

Hadn't driven the car since the Friday evening. Drove it this morning and it seems the air circulation settings have not been remembered
I'll give it more time/tries, I'm pretty sure I know how I left them, but just to be sure.

So while sat in a car park this morning tried Carly to read the battery voltage in parameters, started monitoring...
Ignition off= 0V
Ignition on= 0V
Engine on= 0V

Beginning to wonder if Carly and my car just don't get along. I just grabbed a multimeter anyway, ignition off, across the terminals I got 12.58V.

Not sure what the next step is really... contact Carly support!? Or try bimmercode? Previous owner left a Vgate OBD tool in the car, he'd coded a number of things, presumably with bimmercode, so that should work :?

 

12.6v is perfect, 2.1v per cell.