01-30-2020, 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Qsilver7
In the winter...the BMW IHKA control panel will not blow air at max speed (or at all) onto the passengers until the engine warms up enough to at least blow warm air into the cabin. It's called the cold start arrest...see info below which mentions the e38...but this carries over ot the IHKA systems used in the e39 & e53 (generational cousins):
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Thanks for the info as always Qsilver. Does that same feature apply to "hot" starts for AC? I stopped using auto in any vehicle quite some time ago, nice to see they have improved on the feature.  Maybe I should try it out more often than once every 20 years... 
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