I thank you Qsilver7 for your enlightenment. Who would have thought an arrow pointing skyward would become a new international symbol for "regular defrost". We will at least now be able to winter travel in more comfort than before- I thank you for that. There are some things in a vehicle one assumes will be done to standards universally accepted-I guess BMW has another universe.

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On the Alberta Prairie with 2001 X5 4.4i, 2001 540i